In October, when we first speak, her music video for the deliciously delinquent pop-trap tune “Bad Guy” hits a billion views a couple weeks later, she drops “Therefore I Am,” a single from her forthcoming album, and it’s watched 12 million times in the first 24 hours. In the four short years since she signed with Darkroom/Interscope Records, she has risen to mind-boggling stardom: Her 49-show Where Do We Go? arena tour, which had just kicked off in March and would have run through September had it not been for the pandemic, sold out days after tickets went on sale. She’s trending on Twitter, her emotive face shows up in a group text, her beautiful voice Dopplers out of a passing car. There is the Baader-Meinhof effect too once you are aware of Eilish, she really is everywhere. The muchness of Eilish’s online presence is overwhelming and kaleidoscopic, her own posts and performances spawning fan accounts and compilation videos and ecstatic reaction videos and memes, so many memes, refractions of Billie Eilish ad infinitum. I have listened to her perform at the Democratic National Convention, the Academy Awards, the Grammys (where her 2019 debut album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, racked up a total of 11 wins), Coachella, SNL, Howard Stern, NPR’s Tiny Desk, Ellen, The Tonight Show, and in a car with James Corden. Here she is a few years later, singing at a talent show. Here, in the trailer for a forthcoming documentary about her life, is blond-haired toddler Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell perched on a piano bench. I know what a Billie Eilish burp sounds like, and also a sneeze. I have already watched her ride a pinto across a New Zealand beach, get her sprained ankle wrapped, grind on a bag of bagels, blow a slobbery raspberry into her brother Finneas’s face, mimic her mother, expound on the seriousness of the coronavirus, shoot water out one nostril while using a neti pot, and fit much of an Oscar Schmidt Aloha ukulele headstock into her mouth. You don’t know her, but you know that this is the truth and you have to tell everybody about it and everyone’s going to believe it.B efore I ever meet Billie Eilish, I feel like I know her. All right.’”Īnd people are online saying things definitively, as if hearing it from God that “this is the truth about Billie and you know it for a fact.
“It’s just such a crazy reality that I live in.
The person seemed, like, very in the right head space and they were saying all of these things. “It was like, ‘Billie Eilish is a horrible person.’ And then it was a very serious video of why. Eilish used as an example a video she said came up the other day when she was hanging out with her boyfriend, the Neighbourhood frontman Jesse Rutherford. Which brings us back to the gullibility thing. The 21-year-old pop star filed a request for a restraining order against the man accused of breaking into her parents’ Los Angeles home this month, court documents show. California Billie Eilish seeks restraining order against alleged home intruder who ‘professed his love’ for her
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