Delilah Belle remains to be getting used to calling herself a singer. Because the 24-year-old mannequin prepares to share her very first single, “Nothing Lasts Eternally,” with the world, she’s spending a bizarrely chilly Los Angeles day sending out invites to her launch social gathering.
“I don’t suppose it’s hit me but, actually,” she confesses to Billboard of the track’s imminent unveiling, which is happening at West Hollywood hotspot Resort Ziggy on Friday night time.
The hip location on the Sundown Strip is the proper setting to mark Delilah’s reinvention as a nascent pop star — significantly given her actuality TV roots because the daughter of Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills firebrand Lisa Rinna. In any case, the boutique lodge was additionally the positioning of a celebration hosted by DJ James Kennedy within the newest season premiere of RHOBH spinoff Vanderpump Guidelines — this was pre-#Scandoval — and in addition occurs to be simply down the highway from what was L.A.’s iconic Tower Information flagship retailer.
Followers first met Delilah again in 2014 when her well-known mother snagged a diamond within the fan-favorite fifth season of Bravo’s 90210 franchise. (Mockingly, in her very first scene, Rinna implores Delilah and her youthful sister Amelia Grey, “Inform me about Coachella,” after not permitting the then-teens to go to the competition.)
However only one take a look at the music video for “Nothing Lasts Eternally” lets followers know that Delilah has actually grown up since her earliest days in entrance of actuality TV cameras. The visible for the downtempo ballad opens with the DNA designer sitting in a milky tub immediately paying homage to Taylor Swift’s “Lavender Haze” video earlier than she jolts awake, singing, “Feelin’ like I’m dyin’ and it gained’t go/ Feelin’ like I’m lyin’ in a massacre/ I might pull the plug, let it drain out/ Or take one other drug for the ache now” in a shiny alto.
The track wades into weighty territory for a debut single, exploring Delilah’s bodily and psychological well being struggles over the previous few years. In November 2021, she went dwell on Instagram to element dwelling with obsessive-compulsive dysfunction and anxiousness, in addition to a very unhealthy expertise with a Xanax subscription, to her greater than 1.6 million followers. (She now boasts, as of press time, nearer to 2 million and counting.)
But regardless of its uncooked edge, the elder Hamlin sister says she didn’t suppose twice about getting weak with the track. “I’ve all the time been an open guide and I’ve by no means been scared to essentially share what I’ve gone by way of.” she says. “That’s simply probably not who I’m.”
Beneath, Delilah Belle chatted solely with Billboard about breaking into music, what she hopes followers take from “Nothing Lasts Eternally,” whether or not she acquired any recommendation from her mother’s RHOBH bestie Erika Jayne and extra.
What made “Nothing Lasts Eternally” the fitting selection as your debut single?
I would like this track to be one thing that everybody can relate to in a method or one other. You recognize, I’ve written tons of songs about breakups, heartbreak, et cetera, however I really feel like this track actually is open to interpretation, and I would like folks to have the ability to simply actually relate to it in no matter manner they should in that second. As a result of the that means behind it truly is “nothing lasts perpetually,” whether or not that be a breakup or actually something.
How did you begin writing music within the first place?
I’ve all the time journaled my total life and I’ve additionally all the time cherished singing. And I knew that I wished to have the ability to convey and inform my story by way of music. I believed, you understand, “I’ve a platform. I might simply put out an Instagram Story and discuss concerning the struggles I’ve been going by way of.” However actually, I believed that, creatively, one of the best ways to go about telling my story could be by way of music. “I’ve a platform. I might simply put out an Instagram Story and discuss concerning the struggles I’ve been going by way of.” However actually, I believed that, creatively, one of the best ways to go about telling my story could be by way of music.
You stated they’re up for interpretation, however the track’s lyrics take care of some heavy emotional themes surrounding psychological well being and anxiousness. What impressed that?
Truthfully, what I’ve been going by way of the previous couple of years — actually most of my life, as I can keep in mind — I’ve felt a sure manner. They usually positively are heavy, heavy lyrics. [Pauses] Yeah, I’ve struggled with my psychological and my bodily well being the previous couple of years and I wished to have the ability to convey my struggles not so, like, blatantly. However on the identical time, you understand, they’re heavy and so they actually do convey precisely how I used to be feeling.
Was {that a} weak course of so that you can put these concepts down on paper? Did you are feeling able to put all this on the market?
You recognize, I actually did really feel able to put all this on the market. I’ve felt prepared for some time, particularly after I posted this video a pair years in the past on my — I suppose it was a Reside, then I posted it to my IGTV, if that’s what it’s. I’m so unhealthy at expertise, I actually don’t know what issues imply. [Laughs] However yeah, I’ve all the time been an open guide and I’ve by no means been scared to essentially share what I’ve gone by way of. That’s simply probably not who I’m. So going by way of the method of writing and recording and with the ability to share my story by way of storytelling, by way of music was positively a cathartic expertise. It simply felt proper. Like, I didn’t really feel uncomfortable at any time. I actually might’ve shared extra; I might’ve been much more open. It’s straightforward for me to open up, and I believe it’s essential to open up.
What do you hope listeners and new followers take away from the track’s message?
I actually, actually hope that folks can resonate with the lyrics and take what they want from it. As a result of it’s a lot greater than only a track to me. I’ve been in very darkish, darkish moments in my life the place I placed on a track, or I’ll have the identical track or, like, a playlist on repeat that identical to that unhappy playlist. And people all the time make me cry, and once I’m in these moments, I would like to have the ability to relate to another person. Or I need to really feel heard, I need to really feel like I’m not going by way of this alone.
So primary, I would like folks to have the ability to, in the event that they’re sitting on their toilet flooring or laying in mattress, feeling like they’re dying and this second gained’t go, I would like them to have the ability to be like, “OK wait, another person feels this fashion.” And whether or not somebody seems as much as me or thinks of me in a sure manner, I would like them to have the ability to be like, “Oh wait, Delilah additionally feels that manner.” And if that may assist somebody, that may simply be wonderful. I would like folks to know that nothing lasts perpetually and I additionally wrestle.
That’s one thing so many individuals wrestle with and it may be onerous to speak about and really feel actually isolating.
Yeah, and I believe folks can inform us again and again that, like, “This too shall go.” Folks can inform us all of those clichés, however in actuality, it actually does take wanting to vary. And in my lyrics, I convey, like, “Similar me, identical lady, identical habits.” I used to be actually simply caught on this one house till I spotted, like, I’ve to vary my pondering to ensure that my life to vary…And if you change your pondering and your habits, then you definately actually do notice that nothing lasts perpetually.
Do you’ve gotten any pop artists you seemed to for inspiration as you dove into music?
I actually didn’t know what my sound was going to be. I’ve written a number of songs and each track is, like, a distinct sound and may very well be thought of a distinct style. So once I consider somebody who’s an inspiration to me as a musician, I consider how they inform their story. And I believe that that’s one thing that’s actually essential to me and that’s such a stupendous factor. So I consider Girl Gaga, I consider Billie Eilish. Lizzo. I consider, you understand, going again to Amy Winehouse. I even consider XXXTentacion in the way in which that he advised his story by way of music, I simply suppose it was very impactful. So I wouldn’t actually say once I seemed as much as musicians I used to be attempting to essentially embody their sound, however extra so the way in which that they advised their tales.
Contemplating that you simply’ve recognized her for thus a few years, did you get any recommendation from Erika Jayne about beginning music?
I don’t suppose I did get any recommendation from Erika. I don’t suppose I reached out, to be fairly trustworthy with you! [Laughs]
Nicely perhaps we want her on the “Nothing Lasts Eternally” remix.
Possibly we do, perhaps there’s 10 remixes! I do suppose I invited her to my launch social gathering although. However no, actually, I form of did this alone with my little crew that I created and love a lot.
Inform me concerning the idea for the music video.
So the idea for the music video is…sick. [Laughs] I wished it to be very elevated, ethereal, I wished it to be high-fashion, I wished it to be emotional, I wished it to be so many issues. So me, my artistic administrators and my crew — we actually considered it and made it like a dream inside a dream. We wished it to be a murals, actually. And likewise, like I stated with the track, open to interpretation. We didn’t need it to be too literal, and that’s what I really like about it.
How did capturing the music video examine to all your expertise modeling?
Once I mannequin, I’d deliver emotion if that’s what was requested of me. However within the music video, in each shot I used to be pondering so much, and pondering closely about issues which have occurred all through my life — and the final couple of years particularly. So there was loads of emotion filming it. I imply, I went by way of, I don’t know if it’s 100% conveyed, however for me, I used to be very emotional filming that. And it was additionally form of like performing? Which I’ve probably not executed in so lengthy, since I used to be in, like, theater college once I was youthful. It was superior as a result of it was one thing that I used to be form of additionally directing. Clearly there was a director, my artistic administrators, nevertheless it was one thing that I used to be directing with my feelings and my ideas. So it was a bit completely different in that side.
You’re positively just a little extra within the driver’s seat than on a modeling shoot, I assume.
Sure, which I really like as a result of I’m very artistic.
So can folks anticipate extra music coming quickly from you? A full-length album, maybe?
What can I tease? Hmmm. [Laughs] I’m positively planning on 100% releasing extra music sooner or later. I… Yeah, I’ll depart you with that. Yeah, I don’t know but. We’ll see.
