It seems like Billie Eilish just exploded onto the music scene, but she's already taking over it. 2019 isn't even halfway through and it's probably been her best year yet. In April, she turnt up the stage at Coachella, she recently starred in a Calvin Klein campaign and her debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? reached the number one spot on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart. 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.
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1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Billie 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
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