On Tuesday, a photo of this artist who revolutionized the world of pop became a viral topic. Why does it matter that a woman wears a tight top that is run-of-the-mill."
"Do you want to go back in time?" That was the only answer that Billie Eilish, the American artist who became known on social networks 4 years ago, when she was 14 years old, and who in 2019 became a worldwide phenomenon with the song 'Bad Guy', gave the world. after a normal photo of her went viral: an 18-year-old woman walking down a Los Angeles street in sandals, a tight top, and shorts.
The photograph, taken by the paparazzi, was published by a British newspaper. Everyone talked about that photograph. Eilish has been an artist who has been characterized by wearing baggy clothes in her public appearances and her music videos, precisely as a criticism of the way culture tends to S- women's bodies. "What I like about dressing in clothes that are 800 sizes too big for me is that it doesn't give anyone a chance to judge the way your body looks," she told Vogue magazine last year. Australia. “I want to layer and layer and layer to be mysterious. You don't know what's below and you don't know what's above either.
For this reason, the fact that thousands of people around the internet expressed their opinion about how Eilish had decided to dress in a city where, at this time, the afternoons reach a temperature of around 30 degrees Celsius, precisely reaffirmed her criticism. And her response pointed to the biggest statement she's ever made on the subject:
Along with that response, on Instagram, was an image from a short she submitted in May of this year titled 'Not My Responsibility', in which she appears in a dark environment and slowly begins to remove her clothes until she was left, as in the photo, with a t-shirt attached to her body, an ordinary top. As that happens, she whispers a poem: “You have opinions about my opinions, about my music, about my clothes, about my body. Some people hate what I wear, others highlight it. Some use it to embarrass others, others to embarrass me,” she says.
And she continues: “Isn't the body I was born with the one you want? If I wear what is comfortable, I am not a woman. If I take off my layers, I'm just anyone. Even if you have never seen my body, you judge it, and you judge me by it. Because?".
The answer is an invitation to reflect. Why do people care about each other's bodies? "Sometimes I feel trapped by the character I created [from my dress] because I think people don't see me as a woman," Eilish told British GQ magazine when asked about that video. “That short is about that. It's me saying, Look, there's a body under all these clothes and you can't see it. Isn't that a pity? But my body is mine and yours is yours. Our bodies are kind of like the only real thing that's ours. And I get to see it or show it when I want.
The photos published by the 'Daily Mail' have not been the only ones that have put Billie Eilish in the middle of this debate. In mid-2019, other images of her in a white T-shirt showing her cleavage appeared on Twitter. Shortly after she spoke to Elle magazine and said she didn't understand why she was making such a fuss: “My boobs were trending on Twitter! From number one! Because? All the media wrote about my breasts! I was born with breasts, bro!"
