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Mega popular musical phenomenon and with a meteoric rise, Billie Eilish is catapulted as the new figure of pop among young people. Born in 2001 in Los Angeles, California, she is a singer and songwriter. With her dark and poetic universe, Billie is the new icon of Generation Z.

It all started in 2015 when she released the song “Ocean Eyes,” written by her brother Finneas O'Connell, on the online audio distribution platform SoundCloud, at the age of fourteen. The song went viral and the record label Interscope Records released the single in 2016, totaling 87 million views in one month. In 2017, her song “Bored” appeared on the soundtrack to 13 Reasons Why, a television series about teen bullying and suicide. After the success of the EP Don't Smile at Me, Billie Eilish is promoted by the multinational Apple that chooses her as the new artist of Apple Music Up Next.

Her debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, produced and composed with her brother, was released in 2019 and charted on listening platforms as the third-highest broadcast number of an album by a female artist. After its release, the single "Bad Guy" is one of the best sellers on iTunes and tops the charts for streams on Spotify. Billie Eilish can also boast of being the first singer born in the 21st century to top the Billboard Hot 100 and 200, America's weekly charts with the 100 most played songs, and the 200 best-selling physical and digital albums in music categories combined. . In early 2020, the siblings won five Grammy Awards and, icing on the cake, Billie is the youngest artist ever chosen to compose and perform the James Bond movie song of the same name, "No Time to Die (Dying Can Wait).".

Billie is an antihero who shakes up the pop scene with her unconventional personality, far removed from the norms of the current over-feminized and sexualized gender. She experiments with daring colorings and makes jet black with neon green roots in her hair her signature. She also creates her own baggy clothes, happily accompanies on a ukulele, and doesn't hesitate to pull spiders out of her mouth for a music video. The singer even adopted a tarantula and is raising it. Clearly, her style fills a void for teenagers struggling to find her identity in prevailing models. 

Billie is a somewhat geeky and endearing outsider, against the tide of smelly-looking superficial influencers: far from exhibiting a perfect lifestyle, on the contrary, she takes on her Tourette syndrome, her depression, her heartaches, her legitimate generational anxieties and its own contradictions. No one is perfect and Billie won't pretend otherwise.

With her debut album, the eccentric teenager explores dark worlds: loneliness with “You Should See Me In A Crown”, mental health and drug addiction with “My Strange Addiction”, lucid dreams and night terrors with “Bury a Friend”, the pains of the heart with “Ocean Eyes” and suicide with “Everything I Wanted”, for which he directed the video clip and which he delicately stages with his brother.

Also involved in her lyrics, she denounces inaction in the face of global warming with the song “All The Good Girls Go To Hell”: "The hills burn in California / It's my turn to ignore you / Don't say I didn't warn you. They burn in California / It's my turn to ignore you / Don't say I didn't warn you. ”After laboratory injections, the music video shows her metamorphosis into a demonic creature that evolves in a kind of climate apocalypse. In 2019 she participated in the Los Angeles Climate March and supported to the young Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg. Billie uses her Instagram account to encourage her fans to take action. In 2020 she supports the Black Lives Matter movement and participates in various demonstrations.

Billie Eilish is the voice of an open, activist and tolerant teen culture. Despite her existential pains, Billie is an air bubble that takes us into a whirlwind of fantastic and slightly spooky pop. Perfectly attuned to her generation and her inherent contradictions, she rides on success while keeping her feet on the ground.

Sources :

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Eilish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh2qGWfmESk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YltHGKX80Y8

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