Billie Eilish shares her perspective on success, social media and fame

that when people do things, they do it and make sure to get a photo of themselves doing it? If there's no photo, it didn't happen well. I'm on the radio so you're not crazy about that, that's interesting to me, don't you understand that's interesting to me, yeah, it might be really impressive. Good for you, you created this website where you can do all this and say anything. you want to hear from someone anytime but I don't care, I don't want to hear about it,

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scares you a little bit bro of course it's scary but one day I'll die so it doesn't really matter. to be honest but i did everything nothing matters buddy that's what i say mostly i think some things matter love matters while you're there but eventually you're dying and then nothing matters and whatever but the meaning is what we create we're not going to get into a Nietzschean argument here but all we can do is try to create the meaning that we have in front of us no, you're right, yeah, I just think about something that makes me just not do it.

I don't know what it makes me feel I don't know if it makes me feel better or just warmer or just keeps me awake that's what's weird I know what you mean it's a comforting thought the fact that I'm I'm going to die one day and then all the people around me are going to die and no one will remember me after a certain point, it makes me feel so good because I could do the best thing in the world and no one would ever remember and I will die and it won't matter and everyone around me will die and it won't matter or I could do the worst thing in the world and that won't matter because eventually I will die so obviously don't hurt anyone, don't do it.

It's nice to hear it. I think more people need to think that way. I think about it all the time. It's like the remedy for anxiety. You know, yeah, anyway. I was going to say that people ask a lot about

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. How about musically? Really, very interesting musically for me, where do you want to go? Oh my god, what is it musically? The application doesn't matter. This is one of those things we throw to the birds. I'm kidding. You already know the bird app. Angry Birds 2009. I was trying to make a joke, get the joke, it's not working, I was trying to make a joke, no, you're good, thanks dude, that's why the internet is going after me right now, how dare you talk about Angry Birds?

Where do you want to go musically? I feel like every song is a little different for you and I feel like every song takes it a little further, where do you see it musically? um, at least I have this thing right now where my mindset is like I just want to do exactly what I want to do when I want to do it, which sounds really broad and weird, but let's say tomorrow I wanted to make a song that sounded blank. or the next day I wanted it to sound like something else like no I never want to fit into a box like what I'm curious to know what you are, why you're listening, that inspires you, oh you are, yeah buddy, I love music , man, I was in a song. and saying as many things as I do is weird because I know people who only like certain types or not they just can't vibe with other things and I can't even imagine that, like me, there are so many different types of music that I love hip- hop I grew up on it I love alternative I love it like you know R&B and I like all of these but I don't even like to call them genres because if it's a good song it's a good song like I don't know why I have to say it oh no, no I'm talking about it, I mean, right when I went to the show last night all I could think was this is really, I guess I like the bouquet, I think it's a cool song and I'm having fun and I'm older than everyone else, but what I really thought was that this is really impressive music, it's very well performed, it's sung in tune, it's a high level of music, it's really interesting chord progressions, thank you.

Yes, I want to know, I wonder, I wonder one thing, I want to know well, who inspires you musically? Is this a boring question? I mean, I just don't know how to answer it, man, because I'm like you're really asking me questions. and I actually want to know the real answers instead of what I've been trained to answer with what you've been trained to answer with no, like what I've gotten good at repeating, you know there's certainly an interview path given a certain question. and then I just say, oh, I'm going to answer it with that answer that I've answered like 490 times, but I think you really want to know what it's like to be 16 and not that guy.

That's fine, memorize all those answers, don't even worry about it, well let's get rid of that and give me a couple of artists you're loving right now, yeah, I've taken a lot of inspiration from Moses Omni mm-hmm and Cimino mhm and um look Haley 47 and tiara whack and growing up I was like Tyler the Creator and like the Beatles and yeah, Avril Lavigne and My Chemical Romance. I mean, Canadian, by the way, is she, oh yeah, is she, yeah, yeah, where is she from? Smithers or something, Nappanee Ontario, do you like a boliviano? I'm a complicated guy, fire, um, I'm with you, fire skater guy, fire, yeah, like I grew up with so many different things like Green Day, Oh, My Chemical Romance and I had all the phases, you know? and then I was like The Strokes and we're not chili peppers and Arctic Monkeys and then it was like Tyler and Earl Sweat and Odd Future on Childish Gambino and Waka Flocka and then Chief Keef, you know some weird, weird things, but that's how it is.

That's what I'm saying, is that I got a lot of my inspiration in general. I'm the life of the Beatles and how they wrote music and you just like their way of writing? I don't know, I think something changed when Napster came out. some like I was 13 when Napster came out, you know, but Napster was the first way we could download music the first time you didn't have to buy CDs. Napster, yeah, so it was this show where you could like it. I could type The Beatles and, like the Beatles, no region would do it and I may have precedents, I would download them correctly.

No, it was free, it was pirated, it was pirated music. It was before the guys invested in Facebook, which was their first entity and which disrupted the music. The industry until then was fine, until then it was just CDs, tapes, vinyl, right? And I remember that, in ten years, this will change everything because I no longer need to go to a store and look for a genre. I don't need to look down because I like country music a lot and I like folk music a lot, so I would go straight to if you couldn't tell, so I would go to the folk music section and I'd be like, oh, bluegrass music, okay, this is what I like and I was like, man, I can't imagine what it's going to be like to come up in a time where gender doesn't really mean anything and what I really understand is that this is what it is.

Wow, hearing that makes me so grateful to have grown up in this time, yeah, I hate the idea of ​​genres, I hate it so much, man, it makes me want to die, that Napster, no, I mean, like the absolute no , like before an Absolute Something, there was something cool about that because I think you were so excited to have a piece of music that you listened to it a lot because he couldn't get anything at the time you wanted, so that would be interesting mm- Hmm, it I feel, I think you're like a product of the post-genre world we live in.

I mean, SoundCloud really changed it for me because SoundCloud is like anyone can upload videos, so it's not like an artist really, yeah, because that's where I really got to. in music music not just what's popular or who's popular you know, I'd like they've always listened to me since I was 20 like 14 I think I just dive into SoundCloud and find things that have like 200 works on them, you know, nobody he's still liked them, but there are some things really because you don't have to pay or you don't have to pay and you don't have to like being an artist, you don't really have to do anything.

You really just do your thing and upload it, boom, you've been very kind, thank you very much for talking to me, of course, I want to close with the question and you may already have an answer to this, but I hope not, I hope you like it . You get to do this sometimes to say wow, so this is like uh, yeah, right, this is an old, vintage camera, oh, stop it, do you want me to take a picture? Yes, that's what I love you. to do I don't love you I wonder if you'll get a chance to take a mental snapshot of how wonderful things are like all these things you're doing so I want I was hoping you could give me I'm wrong how you do it I mean I don't mean you're not Grateful but holy, I'm on stage in front of all these people, it's crazy, yeah, it's crazy, okay, but can you give me one or two moments from the last year or two that I like? stand out with your music Midtown crazy that was in that era the New York thing that was in that land was in the light of 40,000 people in Elena yeah, all like hype as hell just jumping around like that's all there is to it I can, I can't have a show where people don't move like I can't take it, it makes me scream um Atlanta Midtown um gov ball was really cool, good song that was like the first of the festivals this year, the first like wow People, actually worrying about me this is crazy and I really had a moment where I was in shock like I can't, there are some moments where I can't even breathe because it's amazing what I'm looking at, you know?

I don't know, I mean, there have been so many moments that I don't know if I could really point out as many as I want, it's nice to hear, I mean, you know there are three people your age in the music industry who find it very normal of course, of course, this is happening, you know what I mean, of course, of course, there are so many people that because I'm not, of course, for me at all, yes, friend, friend at the government ball, yes, what? because? It was so amazing because I was backstage and all morning like no one was going to show up because that's what I expect.

I don't know why at this point that's what I expect. What it is. I know. I think we all do that. Yeah, and I showed up and they were like, man, that's crazy. I'm so grateful for those kids, man, just the shows are crazy, thank you for talking to me, thank you.