Regardless that they have been born simply 14 months aside, Billie Eilish stated she generally feels a mama bear vibe about fellow pop idol Olivia Rodrigo. “I feel all people’s experiences are so particular person,” Eilish, 21, advised the Los Angeles Instances concerning the kinship she feels with the 20-year-old “Vampire” singer. “No person has had anyone else’s life, you realize? However I do really feel a protectiveness over Olivia.”
The query got here up as a result of Eilish is engaged on her third studio album and after releasing her first two in her teenagers, the prospect of dropping an LP in her 20s is blowing her thoughts. “It feels someway very totally different from the remainder of what I’ve ever put out,” she stated. “Like, now I’m in my 20s — oh, my God, that’s so bizarre — and I’ve by no means been an grownup placing music out earlier than.”
So, requested if she maintaining on the large pop data which have outlined this 12 months, Eilish ticked off SZA’s SOS as one that’s “nice” and Rodrigo’s sophomore effort, GUTS as “cute.”
In reality, she additionally revealed for the primary time that the observe “Goldwing” from her Happier Than Ever album was “form of” impressed by Rodrigo. “It’s not solely about her. I used to be simply enthusiastic about her after I was writing it,” Eilish stated, including with amusing, “She was arising, and she or he was youthful than me, and no person had ever been youthful than me.”
The music opens with some strains from a hymn Eilish used to sing as a child within the Los Angeles Kids’s Refrain, earlier than dipping into situation that any younger artist within the business may acknowledge. “They’re gonna inform you what you wish to hear/ Then they’re gonna disappear/ Gonna declare you want a memento/ Simply to promote you in a 12 months,” Billie sings on the observe.
“Olivia was getting massive, and she or he was simply, like, this little dainty baby,” Eilish says of the previous Disney star. “I felt so nervous. I used to be fearful about her. She got here up in that performing world, and persons are so bizarre. I don’t know — I simply felt very protecting over her.” Eilish stated she will be able to simply “see myself in all these younger women. And it’s the women, man. Boys can deal with themselves. They’re dudes — they don’t must take care of it like we do. I simply wish to maintain all people in a bit of glass field and by no means let something contact them.”
The interview additionally options Eilish speaking about studying late Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain’s suicide observe not too long ago and feeling a “deep, deep sorrow” for the grunge icon whereas additionally understanding Cobain’s hatred of the celebrity machine he was enveloped in. “It’s simply not what you suppose it’s going to be,” she stated. The reference is smart once you understand that Cobain is an artist she and her brother/producer Finneas typically look to as a guidepost to grasp the loneliness of success.
“It’s that existential-crisis vibe the place you would be sitting in a room with individuals you’re keen on,” Eilish stated, “and also you’re like, Oh, my God, what the f— is happening with my life?”
