Billie Eilish Was Made for This: ‘Being a Woman Is Just Such a War, Forever’
variety.comBillie Eilish says. “Especially being a young woman in the public eye. It’s really unfair.” When I arrive at her L.A. studio, Eilish is strumming her acoustic guitar, radiating an effortless cool.
She’s so down-to-earth, it’s easy to forget that she won seven Grammys and an Oscar before she was even old enough to toast her success with a glass of Champagne. “It turns out that I’m young, and I have a whole life of shit I can do,” she says. “Maybe because my life became so adult very young, I forgot that I was still that young.
I settled in a lot of ways: I lived my life as if I were in my 70s. I realized recently that I don’t need to do that.” Eilish, 21, got her first taste of fame at 13, when “Ocean Eyes,” the ethereal track she recorded with her older brother, Finneas, in his tiny bedroom, went viral on SoundCloud.
As her career quickly took off, she was forced to navigate her adolescence with everyone watching. She immediately endeared herself to the public with a persona full of contradictions: a whisper-soft voice paired with sticky hooks about murdering her friends, lighting an ex’s car on fire and dumping a possessive boyfriend on his birthday.
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