Her videos were horror-tinged and menacing. When it came, it was magnificent, brooding and appealed across generations. The teen-goth pessimism and angsty hyperbole for which she would become known was yet to emerge. She performed one of her first compositions for Corden, a ukulele-driven song that featured the line, “We lay all day in a comfy bed / What a wonderful life”. While a guest on James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke in December, Eilish said she had been writing music since she was aged six – with a self-aware eye-roll at how precocious that might sound. Recorded at home, and produced by Finneas, it had a harder edge than Eilish’s earlier, more tentative songs, and her image adjusted accordingly.
Her debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? came out in March 2019, and turned her star into a supernova. “Around when I turned 16, I died and got reincarnated as Billie Eilish.” “I remember everything about who I was, but I don’t recognise that person any more,” she said. Last year, when asked by the Sunday Times if, in light of her rapid success, she was the same person she had always been, she expressed incredulity that anyone in her position could claim that. Photograph: youtubeīy 15, she had signed to a major record label and was being interviewed by Vanity Fair. Its dream-like electro-pop and misty minimalism quickly caught fire online, and Eilish was marked as a star in the making.ĭaniel Craig in No Time to Die, the James Bond film for which Billie Eilish has recorded the theme song.
“That song gave me my life,” she has said. When she was 13, Eilish posted her first track, Ocean Eyes, to SoundCloud it was a cover of a song Finneas had written for his own band. He has co-written and produced the Bond theme. She was born Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell, which brings to mind what Madonna allegedly told her biographer: “With a name like Madonna, what else could I have been but a superstar or a nun?”Įilish was raised in Highland Park, Los Angeles, where she still lives with her parents and older brother, Finneas, a musician and actor who appeared in Glee, and her regular collaborator. Eilish has had an extraordinary adolescence, while making a career of encapsulating an ordinary one, winning over an army of young female fans who see themselves in her. She is the first teenager ever to tackle a Bond song. The singer has written and recorded the theme for the forthcoming film, No Time To Die, and follows Adele and Sam Smith, who both won an Oscar for their efforts. “James Bond is the coolest film franchise ever to exist.
“It feels crazy to be a part of this in every way,” she said last week. A t 18, Billie Eilish will be the youngest artist ever to perform a title song for an 007 movie – a refreshingly youthful pick for the often traditional Bond machine.
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