RJ Cutler on his Billie Eilish film: ‘She belongs to the world now and that’s a lot to carry’
3 years, 9 months ago

RJ Cutler on his Billie Eilish film: ‘She belongs to the world now and that’s a lot to carry’

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In that way, Eilish is a perfect subject for RJ Cutler, who directed the newly released Apple TV+ documentary Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry. “You can’t make a film like this without a subject who’s open to trusting you.” Certainly, Eilish’s origin story is compelling material for a filmmaker. “Within a minute of meeting Billie and her family, I knew that.” It feels fresh to see even the documentary’s most outlandish moments grounded in the context of family and domestic space. Forget being a pop star, she’s also a girl becoming a woman.” As much as we witness Eilish doing things unrecognisable to most of us, we Empathy is something Cutler returns to regularly in our conversation, and something he connects to the one request Eilish made when they first met.

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Billie Eilish releases self-directed music video for new single Chihiro starring The Fault in Our Stars actor Nat Wolff
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Billie Eilish releases self-directed music video for new single Chihiro starring The Fault in Our Stars actor Nat Wolff

Daily Mail  

Singer-songwriter Billie Eilish has released her new video for her single Chihiro, which features actor Nat Wolff. Singer-songwriter Billie Eilish, 22, has released her new video for her single Chihiro, as she directed the clip for the track, the second single from her album Hit Me Hard and Soft The video features actor Nat Wolff, 29, who has appeared in …

Billie Eilish admits she overreacted to being ‘outed’ by Variety
8 months ago

Billie Eilish admits she overreacted to being ‘outed’ by Variety

The Independent  

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The next month, on the red carpet for Variety’s …

Billie Eilish reacts after publicly coming out: Didn't realise people didn't know
1 year ago

Billie Eilish reacts after publicly coming out: Didn't realise people didn't know

India Today  

Singer Billie Eilish recently opened up about being attracted to women. She also added that even though she uses ‘she/her’ as her pronoun, she could never really relate to women. BILLIE EILISH REACTS AFTER COMING OUT Billie Eilish caught up with Variety at the publication's annual Hitmakers Brunch event on December 2, where she discussed having said that she is …

Billie Eilish slams Variety for ‘outing’ her sexuality at red carpet: ‘Leave me alone’
1 year ago

Billie Eilish slams Variety for ‘outing’ her sexuality at red carpet: ‘Leave me alone’

LA Times  

Billie Eilish called out Variety on her Instagram post for “outing me on a red carpet. instead of talking about anything else that matters.” Billie Eilish said she wants the internet to “leave me alone” about liking both women and men, after her sexuality became red carpet talk for Variety. “Thanks Variety for my award and for also outing me …

What Billie Eilish learned from her own ‘Barbie’ song, ‘What Was I Made For?’
1 year, 1 month ago

What Billie Eilish learned from her own ‘Barbie’ song, ‘What Was I Made For?’

LA Times  

“This is kind of dark,” Billie Eilish says, “but recently I was reading Kurt Cobain’s suicide note.” The 21-year-old pop superstar is snuggled on a sofa at a Los Angeles studio — black pants, black and red hair — and sets down the acai bowl in her hands to explain. “I was thinking about a character from her point of …

Billie Eilish reveals she is 'physically attracted' to women: I love them
1 year, 1 month ago

Billie Eilish reveals she is 'physically attracted' to women: I love them

India Today  

Singer Billie Ellish has been in the limelight ever since she was a teenager. But I’m also so intimidated by them and their beauty and their presence.” BILLIE EILISH SAYS SHE NEVER ‘FELT LIKE A WOMAN’ Billie also revealed that she does not feel ‘like a woman’. I identify as ‘she/her’ and things like that, but I’ve never really felt …

Billie Eilish reveals she doesn’t feel like a ‘woman’
1 year, 1 month ago

Billie Eilish reveals she doesn’t feel like a ‘woman’

The Independent  

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Billie Eilish says she ‘grieves’ the little girl she was before getting famous
1 year, 11 months ago

Billie Eilish says she ‘grieves’ the little girl she was before getting famous

The Independent  

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Billie Eilish has revealed that …

Billie Eilish says it’s a ‘crazy world’ for women in the public eye
2 years, 6 months ago

Billie Eilish says it’s a ‘crazy world’ for women in the public eye

The Independent  

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The singer, 20, said in an interview ahead of her headline appearance at Glastonbury 2022 that …

Billie Eilish performs in Germany after split from beau Matthew Tyler Vorce as he denies cheating
2 years, 6 months ago

Billie Eilish performs in Germany after split from beau Matthew Tyler Vorce as he denies cheating

Daily Mail  

While she may have just split from her boyfriend, Billie Eilish seemed in high spirits as she took to the stage at Telekom Electronic Beats in Bonn, Germany on Thursday. Stunning: Billie Eilish seemed in high spirits as she took to the stage at Telekom Electronic Beats in Bonn, Germany on Thursday She accessorised the look with several different length …

Billie Eilish reflects on public’s response to her British Vogue cover
3 years ago

Billie Eilish reflects on public’s response to her British Vogue cover

The Independent  

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Billie Eilish’s Second Album Has Strong Words for Her Critics
54 years, 11 months ago

Billie Eilish’s Second Album Has Strong Words for Her Critics

Slate  

When you’re 19, two years can feel like an eternity. In the album’s charming opening salvo, “Getting Older,” I began to worry about that as Eilish sang in the chorus, “Things I once enjoyed/ Just keep me employed now.” I was reminded of the moment in The World’s a Little Blurry, the documentary from early this year, where Eilish told …

Billie Eilish feels ’much more confident’ ahead of album release
3 years, 5 months ago

Billie Eilish feels ’much more confident’ ahead of album release

Live Mint  

Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Billie Eilish feels she is in a much better place today as she awaits the release of her album Happier Than Ever. She further said, "The main thing that I would hope is, for people to hear what I say, and then go, 'Oh, God, I feel like that I didn't know that I felt like that. I …

Billie Eilish on surviving teen fame and trauma, and how she finally stopped reading the comments
3 years, 5 months ago

Billie Eilish on surviving teen fame and trauma, and how she finally stopped reading the comments

LA Times  

Of her new blond hair, Billie Eilish says, “I wanted something that was more natural, and also, I wasn’t depressed.” Billie Eilish is crying on the cover of her new album. “Things I once enjoyed / Just keep me employed now,” she voices at the outset of the album’s opening track, “Getting Older.” “That line isn’t really, like, ‘Oh, boohoo, …

Trust with his subject takes R.J. Cutler’s Billie Eilish film to a new level of intimacy
3 years, 6 months ago

Trust with his subject takes R.J. Cutler’s Billie Eilish film to a new level of intimacy

LA Times  

Documentaries about pop musicians are such a staple of streaming television that they often appear interchangeable. But producer-director R.J. Cutler went back to the source to inspire his Apple TV+ project “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry.” The two-hour, 20-minute film, which premiered in February, tracks the teenage Eilish and her older brother Finneas as they write and record …

Billie Eilish unveils blonde bombshell look in new magazine photoshoot, says 'men are very weak'. See pics
3 years, 7 months ago

Billie Eilish unveils blonde bombshell look in new magazine photoshoot, says 'men are very weak'. See pics

Hindustan Times  

For the longest time, Grammy-winning singer Billie Eilish's appearance has been defined by her oversized, figure-concealing outfits. “My thing is that I can do whatever I want,” she said, adding, “It’s all about what makes you feel good. If you want to wear a dress that somebody thinks that you look too big wearing, f**k it – if you feel …

Why Billie Eilish’s party will never be over
3 years, 9 months ago

Why Billie Eilish’s party will never be over

Live Mint  

Nineteen-year-old Billie Eilish, who on Sunday won Record of the Year at the Grammys for the second year running, was raised in a modest two-bedroom Los Angeles home but she really grew up on the internet. It’s perhaps why RJ Cutler’s observant Apple TV+ documentary, Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry, insists on examining the hyper-awareness engulfing female superstardom …

Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry review: Apple TV+ documentary's no holds-barred approach is refreshing
3 years, 9 months ago

Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry review: Apple TV+ documentary's no holds-barred approach is refreshing

Firstpost  

Director RJ Cutler brings some of the most intimate and vulnerable moments from Billie Eilish’s life as she records her debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?. And the least I can do is make art that I make because I have the same problems,” Billie Eilish, who is no average teenager — not by a …

Billie Eilish and the Future of the Pop Star Documentary
3 years, 9 months ago

Billie Eilish and the Future of the Pop Star Documentary

Wired  

Here’s the thing about pop stardom: The world is unable to divert its stare. Artists in revealing outfits are slut-shamed, and others are greeted with headlines like “Every Time Billie Eilish Ditched her Baggy Outfits for Tight Clothes.” It is so prevalent that Eilish herself once made a short film to address it. But I feel you watching—always—and nothing I …

Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry - The Anti-pop Star
3 years, 9 months ago

Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry - The Anti-pop Star

The Quint  

Condensing two-and-a-half years of Eilish's life and music into a vérité record of two-and-a-half hours is no easy task. Some songs have a nursery rhyme quality to them, others feel like words joined together from diary entries. And you see it as Cutler closes in on the faces of concert attendees tearing up to “When the party's over” and “I …

Billie Eilish The World’s a Little Blurry movie review: Breathtaking Apple documentary is everything you wanted
3 years, 9 months ago

Billie Eilish The World’s a Little Blurry movie review: Breathtaking Apple documentary is everything you wanted

Hindustan Times  

There is a moment in the 2013 Justin Bieber concert film, Never Say Never, in which Bieber physically reaches out towards the sea of fans before him. Billie Eilish The World’s a Little Blurry movie review: Apple's documentary traces the meteoric rise of the music industry's most mercurial performer. Watch the Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry trailer here …

Review: Billie Eilish, unfiltered, in new documentary
3 years, 9 months ago

Review: Billie Eilish, unfiltered, in new documentary

Associated Press  

If you’re coming to “ Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry ” hoping for a primer on the music sensation, you’ve come to the wrong place. Clearly someone in Eilish’s camp had an eye toward legacy when they invited Cutler to her family home to see if he wanted to follow the then-16-year-old during her breakout year, during which …

Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry shows the teen artist's ascent to fame through her own eyes
3 years, 9 months ago

Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry shows the teen artist's ascent to fame through her own eyes

ABC  

It's one of the curious paradoxes of contemporary pop stardom: social media offers audiences access to the kind of intimate details of performers' lives that would be unthinkable in another era, yet it theoretically affords the stars near-complete control of their public image — allowing them to circumvent traditional media for a direct dialogue with their fans. The new documentary …

Review: Billie Eilish is an ordinary teen with extraordinary talent in ‘The World’s a Little Blurry’
3 years, 10 months ago

Review: Billie Eilish is an ordinary teen with extraordinary talent in ‘The World’s a Little Blurry’

LA Times  

By the time Billie Eilish played Coachella in 2019, she already had a No. “I thought that was just some dude Katy Perry met,” she says after Bloom and his pop-star fiancée take their leave in a funny sequence from “The World’s a Little Blurry,” a behind-the-scenes documentary about Eilish set to premiere Friday in theaters and on Apple TV+. …

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