![]() ![]() Eilish: I didn’t grow up in a family that was privileged, and that was fine. Your folks were working in the business, but they were not celebrities. MC: Both your parents are actors your mom is also a songwriter, and you and your brother FINNEAS were homeschooled. It was fine, it wasn’t horrible and miserable, and I wasn’t scared for my life. I grew up in Highland Park when it was very sketchy and there were lots of gunshots. think that in order to live here you have to be rich and live in some really nice neighborhood and have a lot of money. Eilish: Oh yo! We moved here only because it was affordable. Highland Park is the new hipster capital, but it was not always that way. MC: She commented how inspiring it was that a girl from her neighborhood is now making such an impact. She made a yellow one with my EP cover drawn on and on the top it said, “idon’twannabehereanymore”––based on my song title “idontwanabeyouanymore.” What are those called? Those graduation things that go on top of your head? (Mortarboards). MC: We saw an online picture of a girl who was graduating from high school in Highland Park, the Los Angeles neighborhood where you grew up, wearing a hat made out of your EP cover. But it’s good to be home for a little bit of time, finally. Right now, I have plans for the next three years. You don’t know what you’re going to be doing in a year. Then you get to keep making plans throughout the free time in your life. ![]() In everybody’s normal life, you make plans and then you do the plans, and then you don’t have the plans anymore. Eilish: Really? Do I? I don’t know my schedule and I don’t really want to, because I feel like if I did I’d go insane. MC: Reviewing your tour schedule, and from our recent conversation with your brother FINNEAS, we note that you have some time off after your shows in Japan for some sight seeing. I got to the hotel the night before, super late we were at Bonnaroo the whole day and we left the next morning, first thing. MC: Did you get to spend any time exploring Nashville? Eilish: God no. It was my first Bonnaroo and my first time in Nashville. The show itself was tight, there were so many people in the crowd it was crazy. How was the show?īillie Eilish: Bonnaroo was fucking hot! I got to see a lot of my friends who are artists that were performing the same day, which was the best part of it. Music Connection: You just performed last weekend at the Bonnaroo Festival in Tennessee. MC caught up with the wonderfully unfiltered Billie Eilish back home in Los Angeles for this exclusive conversation. Billie’s duet with Khalid, “Lovely,” is heard on Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why and ranks Number One on the Hollywood Reporter’s Top TV Songs chart.Īt this juncture, Billie, now 16, and FINNEAS who just turned 21, are writing and recording her full-length debut between tours across North America, Europe and Asia. Billie and FINNEAS enlist a drummer and hit the road, performing in venues from clubs to massive festivals across the U.S. When management steps in to help with career navigation, she and her brother deliver a collection of cryptic, hypnotic songs for a debut EP, dont smile at me, released by Darkroom/Interscope Records. Sung by Billie Eilish and written and produced by her brother, FINNEAS (aka Finneas O’Connell), “Ocean Eyes” surpasses 80 million plays on Spotify alone and is certified Gold by the RIAA. It strikes a wondrous chord with music discovery website Hillydilly which shares it to massive response. It begins with a tale of remarkable implausibility: When a dance teacher needs original music for choreography, his 14-year-old student posts her song on SoundCloud. ![]()
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