It seems like Billie Eilish just exploded onto the music scene, but she’s already taking over. 2021 is just getting started and Billie is already making it her biggest year yet. With the release of her documentary. Four Grammy nominations and a possible upcoming album in the works, Billie is ready to top everything she’s already done. We’re just getting to know Billie, but she’s already opened up about so much regarding her music and personal life. Here’s everything you need to know about rising pop star, Billie Eilish.
She is the youngest person to win all four top awards at the Grammys in one year.
At the 2020 Grammy Awards. Billie Eilish made history as only the second artist and the youngest in history to win the top four awards. Best New Artist, Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Album of the Year.
She has her own documentary.
In February 2021, Billie released her first official documentary film, Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry on Apple TV+. The film follows Billie as she worked on her hit album When We All Fall Asleep. Where Do We Go? and made it big.
One of her middle names might totally surprise you.
While we all know and love her as Billie Eilish, her full name is actually Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell. According to Insider, it was actually her older brother. Finneas’ idea to add Pirate because thats what he wanted to call her.
She’s naturally blonde.
The singer might be known for her iconic green locks and several other colors that she’s sported over the years. But he hair is actually blonde, as seen in some of her throwback photos.
For the past four years, Billie has done Vanity Fair’s Same Interview series. And she notes that her favorite film in Fruitvale Station starring Michael B. Jordan.
She released her debut album in March 2019.
Her debut album When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? made her the first artist born in the 2000s. To have a number one album in the United States, according to CNN. She’s also the youngest female artist ever to have a number 1 album in the UK.
Billie Eilish WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?
Billie’s been writing music since she was 11.
Billie told Vogue that she was a member of the Los Angeles Children’s Choir. She said her time in the choir is what helped her develop her singing skills. “It’s [the choir] helped me learn the proper way to sing and not ruin my voice completely. But I’ve just always sung, all the time. I sang so much that my family had to shush me.” She said singing naturally led to her writing music.
Billie Eilish originally recorded the song “Ocean Eyes” for the dance company she used to be a part of.
Billie’s brother, Finneas, wrote the song in 2015 and Billie decided to sing it. The song compares falling in love to feeling like you’re falling off of a cliff. Billie originally recorded the song so that her dance teacher could choreograph. A contemporary dance to it, but the siblings liked the song. So much that they ended up uploading it to SoundCloud. On Soundcloud, the song started gaining traction and attention from record labels to buy the rights for the song.
Billie’s brother, Finneas, helps her make her music.
Finneas helps Billie writer her music and produces her songs. He produced all 14 tracks on When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?. Finneas talked to Atwood Magazine about his experience writing music for Billie saying, “Well for Billie, if I’m writing a song alone for Billie like “Ocean Eyes” or “watch” or “Six Feet Under,” I want to write a song that I think she’ll relate to and enjoy singing and empathize with the lyrics and make her own. And if I’m writing a song with Billie, I’m just trying to help her tell whatever story she’s trying to tell, bounce ideas off of her, listen to her ideas.”
Billie also spoke about her experience working with her brother and said they have great give and take. “There’s so much time wasted working with people you don’t know, where if you don’t like something, you’re like: ‘You could, maybe, I don’t know, maybe try something where it’s a little different.’ Whereas, with Finneas it’s just like, ‘No, that sucks, let’s move on.’ We just know each other so we can do that,” she told Clash.
Billie’s know for her streetwear-like style.
Billie’s known for wearing a lot of baggy clothes and track suits. She described her personal style as being pretty weird to Harper’s Bazaar. But Billie also said that the reason she wears baggy clothes is so that people won’t be able to judge her. She opened up about her style choices in her campaign ad for Calvin Klein saying, “Nobody can have an opinion because they haven’t seen what’s underneath. Nobody can be like, ‘she’s slim-thick,’ ‘she’s not slim-thick,’ ‘she’s got a flat a**,’ ‘she’s got a fat a**.’ No one can say any of that because they don’t know,” she said.
Billie’s been open about having Tourette Syndrome.
As Billie started gaining more exposure for her music, people started creating and uploading compilation videos of what they believed to be Billie’s physical tics related to Tourette Syndrome. According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Tourette Syndrome is a neurological disorder that’s characterized by involuntary movements and vocalizations known as tics. The compilation videos moved Billie to open up about her experience living with the disorder in her own Instagram stories, but she also talked about her experience while visiting Ellen. Billie said opening up about the disorder has helped her better connect with fans. “I think I also really learned that a lot of my fans have it, which made me feel kind of more at home with saying it, and also I felt like there was a connection there,” she said.
Billie’s a Belieber.
Billie has been open about being in love with Justin Bieber since she was about 12. “That was like my first love. That was the person I was in love with, in my head he was in love with me, it was like a relationship with a person,” Billie said about Justin in a radio interview with KROQ.
She met him for the first time at Coachella and the moment was as cute as you probably imagined it to be.
As revealed in her documentary, Justin even sent her a text after meeting her writing, “Your love for me touched my heart. You are so special, not for what you can do but for who you are — remember that. I’m so impressed by your aura and presence. You carry a heavy calling. You are an idol to so many and I’m excited to watch you flourish. Thank you for tonight. It meant as much to me as it did to you. Feels like yesterday I was 15 singing ‘One Time.’ It flew by in a flash. Now I’m 25. Embrace it all, Billie. You are great but not greater than anyone.”
Billie Eilish obsessed with The Office.
Billie’s made it clear that The Office is her favorite show of all time. She even used samples from the episode “Threat Level Midnight” in her song, “My Strange Addiction.” Billie proved just how much of a stan she is when getting quizzed by actor Rainn Wilson, who played Dwight Schrute on the show.
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Billie Eilish been vocal about issues she cares about.
In 2018, she appeared in a campaign with the mayor of Los Angeles to try to get young people to register to vote. “As young people we have to own and use our power to make a difference. When we go into the voting booth, it’s about deciding who will lead America into the future,” she said in the Facebook ad.
Billie’s also been vocal about the U.S. changing abortion laws, saying women should have the choice to do whatever they want with their bodies. “Women should say, should do, and feel, and be exactly what they want. There should be nobody else telling them how to live their life, how to do shit. It just makes me so mad that if I start talking about it, I won’t stop. Men should not make women’s choices — that’s all I have to say,” she told Variety during the ASCAP Pop Music Awards.
Billie Eilish songs made it onto the 13 Reasons Why soundtracks.
Billie’s song “bored” is featured on the season 1 soundtrack, while her collaboration with Khalid, “lovely,” is featured on the second.
