- Billie Eilish releases a new single, a few months after a first album.
- The 17-year-old American singer has accumulated success since her first song released in 2016.
- In just a few months, she became an icon for the under 20s, but her success spanned generations, and now the Atlantic.
"I had a dream / I got everything I wanted / Not what you'd think / And if I'm bein 'honest / It might've been a nightmare" ( "I had a dream / I had everything I wanted / Not what you could think of / And if I'm honest / it could have been a nightmare " ). In her new single, everything i wanted (stylized without capital letters, like all her titles), released Wednesday November 13, Billie Eilish, 17, talks about her sudden success and pays tribute to her brother Finneas and the support he gives him. This latest title is partly inspired by a dream that Billie had, in which she committed suicide "and everyone did not care", she explained to the BBC.
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This single with serious and dark themes, wrapped in soft and catchy music, comes out only a few months after his first album, WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? and is already promised a bright future. Since her first hit, ocean eyes , which revealed her when she was only 14 years old, Billie Eilish has had successes… and records.
The first artist born after 2000 at the top of sales
She has already sold 1.3 million copies of her album, including streaming, since the March release. According to Rolling Stones magazine, this is the third most streamed album of the year worldwide. In the first week, he was ranked No. 1 on the Billboard 200, the weekly album sales ranking in the United States - making Billie Eilish the first artist born after 2000 to occupy this place. The week of its release, 14 songs from the album were in the top 100 - more than any other female artist. And the teenager already has 7 gold singles and two turntables.
To understand the Eilish phenomenon, you have to go back. But not too much. In 2016, the girl is 14 years old and is more passionate about dance than music. Her dance teacher asked her to create a choreography on an original song. Billie turns to his brother, Finneas O'Connell, five years older, actor and musician - he played Alistair in Glee . He presents her with ocean eyes . Brother and sister record the song, Billie on vocals and Finneas on guitar, and post it on Soundcloud to send to the dance teacher. "Basically, tons of people started listening to it and sharing it overnight," Billie Eilish told Teen Vogue in February 2017. Hillydilly, a music discovery site, found [the song] and the posted and it just got bigger and bigger. It was surreal. ".
Worthy representative of generation Z
The song goes viral, the success is immediate, Billie gets a manager, and a label, Interscope Records. In February 2017, she released the single bellyache , still co-produced and written by her brother Finneas. The next track, bored, appears a month later - it appears in the soundtrack for the 13 Reasons Why series . And so on, until a first EP, don't smile at me , released on August 12, 2017. The almost classic story of a viral and dazzling success like the 21st century delivers at regular intervals. With the difference that since, Billie lasts.
The singer connects the hits, the successes, and the collaborations with recognized artists, like Justin Bieber. And brings together thousands of delirious fans at its concerts, where a passionate and energetic crowd throngs. A worthy representative of Generation Z, Billie Eilish also speaks to the elderly; twenties and thirties listen to it as much as adolescents. In her songs, she tackles themes like romantic relationships, breakups, but also depression or the thought of death. If some titles are inspired by their experiences, Billie and her brother also like to "invent things completely and become characters," she told Paper magazine in March 2017.
Influenced by The Beatles, Tyler, The Creator and Lana del Rey
A few months later, she declared to Nosey : "I want my music to be something you have never heard". His music is pop, and mixes acoustic melodies, electronic sounds and rhythms inspired by hip-hop. The lyrics are often raw, melancholic, with a bit of that adolescent nihilism that she embodies so well, while her velvet voice goes from low to high without seeming to. In her influences, she quotes the Beatles, whom she "listened to a lot while growing up", but also Tyler, The Creator, Aurora, Amy Winehouse, Lana Del Rey or Drake. "In my music, I tried to immerse myself in all these artists and mix them to create something my own way," she told Pure Charts when her album was released.
Billie Eilish is also a product of his generation and cultivates a rebellious attitude as well as an accessible temper, especially for the 41 million fans who follow her on Instagram. In an interview as in her songs, she expresses herself on the subjects that are dear to her heart: mental health, the depression with which she has lived since her 14 years, but also her veganism and her desires to do what she likes. She already has a precise sense of style despite her nonchalant appearance: dressed in wide clothes which she said they allowed her to avoid bodyshaming , she connects the hair colors almost at the same rate as the tubes.
If the United States discovered Billie Eilish two years ago, the phenomenon has become global this year. Some see it as "the future of pop". Until the next decade, French fans can already see it happening on July 18 and 19, 2020 in Paris, during the Lollapalooza festival.
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