You’ve probably seen a lot of Billie Eilish lately. Maybe you raised your eyebrows at her, um, intimate Rolling Stone cover story from last month. (“I should have a Ph.
D. in masturbation,” went one of her viral quotes from the interview.) If you’re a Swiftie (or a Taylor Swift hater), surely you saw her March Billboard interview in which she criticized artists who make multiple vinyl variants of the same record.
(“I can’t even express to you how wasteful it is,” she said, never mentioning Swift by name but still ending up on the receiving end of some Swiftie blowback . If the shoe fits!) Or maybe earlier this year you felt like you were seeing her perform her Barbie soundtrack contribution, “What Was I Made For?,” on an awards show every other time you turned on the TV. And even if you didn’t watch, maybe you at least heard about how Eilish won awards at all those shows.
At 22 years old, Eilish is already a pop music veteran. That’s partially because of how young she was when she started (Eilish posted her breakthrough single, “Ocean Eyes,” on SoundCloud in 2015 when she was 14) but also because she’s carved out a piece of cultural capital that few artists in recent years have achieved. Your parents have probably heard of her, while the same maybe couldn’t be said for someone such as, say, Dua Lipa .
Apple Music just called her debut record, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? , the 30th-best album of all time , beating out the likes of Read.
