is revealing how she suffers for her art. The singer said she spent six hours underwater with a weight strapped to her body to capture the cover of her , released on Friday, May 17. “That is very real,” Eilish, 22, said of the cover image on on Tuesday, May 21.
“This was the day after this last Grammys,” she continued. “I had gone to sleep at 7 a.m.
, I woke up, I dyed my hair black ...
and then I went to this random place in Santa Clarita. There’s a tank in this giant place and it was like 10 feet deep, and I popped my little ass in there. And I was in there for six hours.
” Eilish said that she was “fully clothed” the entire time, wearing “big long pants, giant Pro Club shorts, a thermal — long-sleeved, a button-up flannel, a tie, rings, arm warmers and a weight.” “I had a weight strapped to me,” she added, explaining that the weight was to ensure she stayed in the water to capture the perfect shot. “I didn’t have a nose plug, so I was basically waterboarding myself for six hours,” Eilish said.
The “What Was I Made For?” singer confirmed that it was her idea to do the risky photo shoot, telling host that she’s “almost died” during photo shoots “so many times.” “I need to suffer,” she said. “Honest to God, yes.
It’s not like, ‘What can I do that’ll be the most uncomfortable that I could possibly dream of?’ It’s more that I think about the visual before I think about how it’s going to make me feel. I’m like, �.