A lot of ink has been spilt trying to work out how she did it. Barely older than her fans, Eilish is both an aspirational figure — 18 today, she appears to be completely in control of her own destiny, eschewing standard music industry pop procedures in favour of writing and producing her own material at home with her elder brother — and, to use a current buzzword, relatable. She seems to speak to her audience unmediated. In almost every photograph, she fixes the camera with a heavy-lidded glare, her eyes saucers of contempt. Her lyrics offer up an index of very teenage preoccupations and fears — rivalry, rejection, drugs, sexuality, escaping your home town — whipped up into gothic melodrama. But it works as an album, rather than a collection of songs. Moreover, it flows in a way that ensures you lose yourself within it. This is partly because of the aforementioned attention to detail, as musical motifs are woven throughout the album, and beats, melodies and snatches of lyrics recur. How long it remains entirely her own is a moot point. Facebook Twitter Pinterest.


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Billie Eilish: the pop icon who defines 21st-century teenage angst
Eilish largely co-wrote the album with her brother Finneas O'Connell , who produced its music at his small bedroom studio in Highland Park, Los Angeles. Its songs explore themes such as modern youth, drug addiction, heartbreak, suicide, and mental health , with lyrical sensibilities of humor and horror. Eilish said the album was inspired in part by lucid dreaming and night terrors , which are reflected on the cover photo. World Tour. An immediate commercial success, the album topped record charts in many countries during its first week of release. By June , it had sold more than 1.
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She first gained attention in when she uploaded the song " Ocean Eyes " to SoundCloud , which was subsequently released by the Interscope Records subsidiary Darkroom. The song was written and produced by her brother Finneas , with whom she collaborates on music and live shows. In , she performed the theme song " No Time to Die " for the James Bond film of the same name , which became her first to peak at number one in the UK. She is the youngest person and second person ever to win the four main Grammy categories — Best New Artist , Record of the Year , Song of the Year and Album of the Year — in the same year. In , Time magazine placed her on their inaugural "Time Next" list. While she was homeschooled , her mother taught her and Finneas the basics of songwriting. The song is about the zombie apocalypse, inspired by the television series The Walking Dead from which she took script lines and episode titles that she added to the song as part of the assignment. In October , Eilish recorded the song " Ocean Eyes ", written and produced by Finneas originally for his band, after her dance teacher asked them to record a song for a dance routine. They released the song on SoundCloud , as they had already done with a couple of songs they wrote. A music video for "Ocean Eyes" was released in March
Over the past year, Billie Eilish has become the biggest new pop star on the planet. If this trajectory is followed, with 18 months between releases, we could likely be gifted a new Billie album towards the end of In January , she confirmed that she will be continuing to work on her second record but said it is unlikely to see the light of day this year. But next few years? But you know, we were percolating that whole time. I have a studio road case in my dressing room and I roll in there and I work for six hours. Almost certainly, yes! She has extreme charisma and extreme passion when she sings.