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 love you.” Helping Eilish handle the dark side of fame is an able supporting cast in her family. But “Billie Eilish” is a solo act, a sibling duo, and a family.

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Billie Eilish leaves fans in FLOODS of tears as she shocks three friends with surprise video call and they exclaim 'you saved my life'
7 months, 1 week ago

Billie Eilish leaves fans in FLOODS of tears as she shocks three friends with surprise video call and they exclaim 'you saved my life'

Daily Mail  

Billie Eilish left three of her biggest fans in floods of tears after she shocked them with a surprise video call. Billie Eilish left fans Laura, Grace and Bower in FLOODS of tears as she shocked the three friends with surprise video call on BBC Radio One The girls were filled with excitement as they sat down in the studio …

Billie Eilish finally remembers who she is
7 months, 1 week ago

Billie Eilish finally remembers who she is

NPR  

Billie Eilish finally remembers who she is Enlarge this image toggle caption William Drumm/Courtesy of the artist William Drumm/Courtesy of the artist Billie Eilish On Eilish's new album, Hit Me Hard and Soft, her voice resounds with new confidence when a song calls for it, though she can still return to her signature whispered vulnerability when she wants to devastate. …

Music Review: Billie Eilish’s ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’ is zealous outsider pop in a league of her own
7 months, 1 week ago

Music Review: Billie Eilish’s ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’ is zealous outsider pop in a league of her own

Associated Press  

“Am I acting my age now?” Billie Eilish, 22, wonders aloud on the opening track to her ambitious third album, “Hit Me Hard and Soft.” “Am I already on the way out?” The 10-track release sees a once-in-a-generation pop performer once again rewriting the rules: If Eilish’s first record introduced the world to her brilliant horror-pop, with its macabre humor, …

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 dropped ‘What Was I Made For?’ and pop queen Glüme has never felt more seen
1 year, 5 months ago

Billie Eilish dropped ‘What Was I Made For?’ and pop queen Glüme has never felt more seen

LA Times  

Billie Eilish dropped “What Was I Made For?” and child actor-turned-pop queen Glüme Harlow has never felt more seen. Eilish has been teasing the new sob-inducing track she wrote with her brother Finneas O’Connell for the soundtrack of the upcoming “Barbie” film. While speaking with David Letterman on Netflix’s “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction,” Eilish opened up about also …

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 …

In front of adoring fans at Amoeba Music, hometown hero Billie Eilish takes a victory lap
2 years, 4 months ago

In front of adoring fans at Amoeba Music, hometown hero Billie Eilish takes a victory lap

LA Times  

Gabriella Saadia flew to L.A. from her hometown of Houston earlier this week to see Billie Eilish play a tribute to Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee at the Hollywood Bowl. When the 16-year-old heard she might have a second chance to catch Eilish, at an intimate Friday noontime gig at Hollywood’s Amoeba Music, “I screamed out loud and sprinted out …

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’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 …

Everything you wanted: Why Billie Eilish is the ultimate teen-pop icon
3 years, 4 months ago

Everything you wanted: Why Billie Eilish is the ultimate teen-pop icon

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. We know everything.” Her comments echo those made by …

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, …

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 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 …

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 …

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, 9 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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