At only 17 years old, Billie Eilish is the pop idol of millions of boys of her generation, and older too. Born in Los Angeles, California, she grew up surrounded by art. She took her first steps in a children's choir at age 8, and she also took piano, ukulele, and dance classes. At the age of 11, she and she wrote her own melodies, following in the footsteps of her brother Finneas O'Connell, who today is the music producer of her first album. At 15 she had already released her single Ocean Eyes.
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? It is her first album, which went on sale in March of 2019, and which was an immediate success: it clearly reflects the personality and concerns that make Billie a phenomenon: tragedies, black humor, and adolescent problems. Bad Guy and Bury a Friend are perhaps her most popular songs.
"The world is a dark place, I haven't felt happy, so why would I have to make happy songs?" the singer told El Mundo from Spain. "A song can be a refuge, it makes you not feel alone, so I understand the connection that has been established between me and the public. We think alike, the same things have affected us, and it is normal that what I do intrigues them ".
Billie's relationship with social networks is active. She has 32.4 million followers on Instagram, with an average of 5 million likes on each of her posts. Yes, as a worthy member of her generation -and now a reference- social networks are the platform with which she shows herself to the world. she uploads Instagram stories daily with photos or videos in which she shows a bit of her personal life. She usually shares with her fans her extravagant looks, fragments of shows, and video clips from her first album.
And social networks were precisely the means that she used to share with her faithful fans the disease that she was diagnosed with when she was 12 years old: Tourette syndrome. It is that after the appearance of a series of videos on YouTube that showed a physical, non-verbal tic of the singer, speculation began, which she decided to end by explaining her condition: "I was diagnosed with Tourette syndrome but I did not want to that every time people saw me they would think about that".
Billie Eilish spoke once again about the subject on the Ellen Degeneres show:
"It's something I've lived with all my life. All my family members, all my friends, and all the people who are closest to me know that I have it and there's nothing different. I never said anything because I didn't want that to happen. defined who I was. I didn't want to be Billie Eilish, the artist with Tourette."
In June, Billie Eilish was interviewed by Vogue Australia and confessed that she hates being called the "it girl of pop": "The strange thing about humans is that we think we have to label everything, but we don't have to."
On her sense of style, she clarified: "I want layers and layers and layers. I want to be mysterious." It's just that fashion for her has always been her defense mechanism. "I always use things that are too much. There really are no limits to, for example, where anything can be used. I like to be looked at."
That was one of the reasons why the firm Calvin Klein summoned her for its iconic "My Calvins" campaign, and she took advantage of that space to talk about her preference for oversized clothing: "That's why I wear baggy clothes. Nobody can have an opinion because they haven't seen what's underneath. No one can say 'She's too skinny,' 'She's not,' or 'She has a fat ass.' No one can say anything because they don't know."
Billie escapes the S- to which women in the field are unfairly subjected, even minor ones, like her. However, a couple of weeks ago, a Twitter user shared: "Billie Eilish has a nice body", with a photo of the teenager in a tank top. Another, from her side, read: "There are only two things I like about Billie Eilish. What hides under baggy clothes."
Billie escapes the S- to which women in the field are unfairly subjected, even minor ones, like her. However, a couple of weeks ago, a Twitter user shared: "Billie Eilish has a nice body", with a photo of the teenager in a tank top. Another, from her side, read: "There are only two things I like about Billie Eilish. What's hidden under her baggy clothes."
Billie's fans did not hesitate to support her and repudiate those comments of hers. She, on the other hand, preferred not to answer.
"In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you're a girl and have an opinion, people hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that's so pathetic." Billy had said. "This industry is horrible. But if I didn't do this I would be miserable."
