By now you in all probability suppose you understand nearly all the pieces there’s to learn about Billie Eilish. The singer has been in our lives for almost a decade and between her confessional songs and revealing interviews, the 22-year-old “Birds of a Feather” singer has shared lots.
However issues received super-deep on Thursday night time (August 15) when she sat down on The Late Present for what is named probably the most probing sequence of questions within the celeb universe: The Colbert Questionert. The primary one was a slam-dunk, or ought to have been, with Eilish instantly noting that one of the best sandwich is the one her brother, producer Finneas, makes for her. “It’s like a pesto… it’s a pesto state of affairs, with like an eggplant factor,” Eilish revealed.
“A pesto state of affairs with an eggplant factor?” Colbert stated, earlier than issues received tremendous sandwich nerdy. Meandering, Eilish introduced, “I like French bread.”
Confused, and smelling comedy gold, Colbert requested, “Is it a secret? I simply wish to know why I can’t know any of your sandwich recipes. Are you opening up your individual chain?” Then Eilish — sporting a striped blazer over a checkered shirt to go together with a backwards baseball cap and oval glasses — laughed and admitted that she by no means actually peels again the bread to see what’s inside her sandwiches. “You don’t look a present sandwich within the mouth?” Colbert deadpanned.
Eilish then admitted that the easiest sandwich is the nice previous PB&J.
The singer revealed her very first live performance was The Neighbourhood, fronted by former boyfriend Jesse Rutherford, and that the scariest animal is, duh, “a f–kin’ whale, dude! These motherf–kers are so large!” Whereas stunning and gorgeous, Eilish stated she merely doesn’t wish to “fiddle” with something that huge.
Unusually, the toughest query for Eilish was the one which’s often a slam-dunk: apples or oranges. Because it seems, Billie loves tangerines, however when requested to decide on between a Cutie and a Fuji apple, Eilish went Honeycrisp, last reply. She then switched and went tangerine in spite of everything. Requested if she’s ever gotten a celeb autograph, Eilish stated she went to a Skylar Gray signing when she was nine-years-old and that she has a signed Tori Kelly CD someplace in her home.
Although her songs usually probe the deepest depths of her feelings and emotions, on the subject of what occurs to us once we die, Eilish admitted to having no clue. “We return to the place we have been… nothing,” she stated. “I like the afterlife concept and if I see it, that’s nice.” The pair agreed that some finality is best than an open-ended story with no cut-off level. “I don’t want it to maintain going… appears grasping,” Eilish stated.
Requested to call her favourite motion film, Eilish questioned what that even means. “There’s combating, explosions…” Colbert provided, which elicited a fast response. “I like The Darkish Knight. I’ve seen that film like 17 instances,” Eilish stated. For the document, Billie is 100% Staff Window Seat (vs. Aisle), her favourite odor is honeysuckle, her least favourite odor is “a foul individual odor… man stank,” her earliest reminiscence is swinging on a swing in her again yard and sorry, childless cat girls, she’s a canine girl.
Then Colbert received the meat of the matter and quizzed Eilish on the one track she’d hearken to if she needed to decide a observe for the remainder of her life. “I might hear ‘Nightcall’ by Kavinsky,” she stated of the observe that had a streaming surge after being featured within the closing ceremonies of the 2024 Summer season Olympics in Paris, the place she and Finneas additionally carried out. For the document, Eilish stated that’s been her top-played track for the previous three years.
And eventually, when it got here to describing the remainder of her life in 5 phrases, Eilish stated what she hopes it is going to be like, “laughter… smiling… snuggling… consuming… singing.”
Watch Eilish take the Colbert Questionert beneath.
