Young, unconventional, and unapologetic. She was the first breakout star of Gen Z.
This is Billie Eilish.
This is Billie Eilish.
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00:00I did not start writing music because I was like,
00:03ooh, I'm gonna write music so I can get famous.
00:06I wrote music because I had a lot on my mind
00:09and I didn't know how to say it, really.
00:30All I've ever wanted is to be on a stage
00:33and have people cheering for me.
00:36I always loved being on a stage.
01:01I was never like, you have to do this,
01:03and you have to do this, and you have to, like,
01:06so that gave me the opportunity to learn
01:08what I actually wanted to learn.
01:10So I'd see something and be like,
01:11I think that's really interesting
01:13and I wanna learn more about that.
01:14My whole family has always just been insanely musical
01:18and always making music with me.
01:30When we started making music together, it was fantastic.
01:49I remember, I feel that our relationship
01:54professionally has gotten more and more healthy.
01:57When we were young, we used to bicker unprofessionally.
02:11I perform like I'm right in the pit
02:13and I try to make everyone who's in the audience,
02:15if they're not in the pit, feel like they are.
02:27I was in love with that man, Justin Bieber.
02:40I will tell you that.
02:41And that was not fake at all.
02:44I'm telling you, bro, that shit, we're not getting into that.
02:47I've done it before. I'm not doing that shit again.
03:19I grew up in a bedroom at our house that we grew up in
03:22and it was mastered in somebody's living room.
03:24So it's really like anything is possible.
03:27So we've relocated to the streets of Paris.
03:30See, the kids already know.
03:31Always. The kids already know.
03:32Everywhere you go.
03:49The Grammy nominations went up at like 5 a.m. our time.
03:55My mom came in, she told me the news
03:58with like the most like joyful sound in her voice
04:00and we called my brother and I found out he was nominated too,
04:04which just like made my heart sore.
04:49Silence is not an option and we cannot sit this one out.
04:56We all have to vote like our lives
04:58and the world depend on it because they do.
05:19How do you process it?
05:46You know what I mean?
05:48There are no classes for this.
05:50Lately it's been every single day I'm just like,
05:52damn, like this is my life.
05:55In a good way, you know?
05:56And that's new and that's like beautiful
05:59and I'm happy, man. I'm happy.