Billie EIlish’s 10 Most Relatable Moments

It is typically onerous to keep in mind that Billie Eilish is solely a 17-year-old child. That may occur when an artist has the No. 1 music within the nation, a debut album that debuted at No. 1 as effectively, and is performing everywhere in the world.

Nevertheless it’s true. She is likely to be nominated for a outstanding 10 Moonmen on the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards, held on Monday, Aug. 26 on the Prudential Middle in Newark, NJ of all locations, however she’s nonetheless only a child who’s discovering herself, fairly actually, on the world’s largest stage. And as a lot as she’s turn out to be the voice of Gen Z, at any time when she makes use of that voice in interviews, she reminds us of simply how relatable she is. 

Take, as an illustration, the way in which the newly-legal driver spoke about her first automobile, a completely down-to-earth Dodge Challenger she nicknamed the Dragon. “Take a look at her high-quality ass,” she advised Rolling Stone earlier this month. “I like this automobile a lot.” (In fact, much less relatable is the truth that it was a 17th birthday reward from her label.)

And when she took the journal’s intrepid reporter for a journey within the Dragon, she advised them, “I am making an attempt so onerous to not velocity proper now. It is primarily as a result of my mother is up there.” Like we mentioned, relatable.

Whereas we wait to seek out out simply what number of Moonmen she’ll stroll away with on Monday, let’s check out Billie’s 10 most relatable moments. 

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When she received actual about social media:

“I used to learn each single remark and each image I used to be tagged in and reply to each single DM, however now I barely go on Instagram as a result of I can not deal with that shit,” she advised NME in January. “F–k that shit. I simply do not wanna see all of the horrible issues folks say. I do not wanna see that I ought to have died as a substitute of this artist. It takes not taking a look at my telephone to cease myself from partaking. I needed to delete Twitter in March due to it. No one goes to win. If any person mentioned one thing to me in particular person, I would beat their ass.”

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When she received actual in regards to the trade:

This trade is f–king horrible, but when I wasn’t doing this I might in all probability be depressing as a result of that is all the time what I’ve needed,” she advised NME. “Irrespective of how horrible fame is and the way horrible this and that’s: loads of issues make all of this value it, y’know?”

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When she received actual about little one actors:

“I went on, like, two auditions,” she advised Rolling Stone in August. “So lame. This creepy, chilly room. All these youngsters that regarded precisely the identical. Most actor youngsters are psychopaths.”

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When she received actual in regards to the calls for of her profession:

“We will not have this be the remainder of our lives. We had been speaking about it the opposite day, we’re similar to, ‘I am 17, dude.’ I can not have my life precisely like this ceaselessly, and he cannot both,” she advised Beats 1’s Zane Lowe in April, noting that her brother Finneas O’Connell simply purchased a home along with his girlfriend and received a canine. “It is a bizarre steadiness, as a result of I need to develop in my life, and develop up and have a life. However I have already got my profession. … Having been on tour, I understand how it really works. I do know that you simply go away and it is a little bit little bit of your folks being unhappy. Then, you are gone for lengthy sufficient that life strikes on and so they hold doing issues. It is the identical means as if somebody dies. It’s important to hold going. You should not be mourning them each two seconds for the remainder of your life. It’s important to hold going.”

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When she received actual in regards to the response to her wardrobe:

“I’ve spoken rather a lot to feminine artists about this, as a result of for those who’re not a feminine artist you in all probability do not take into consideration this,” she advised NME. “If I used to be a man and I used to be carrying these dishevelled garments, no person would bat a watch. There’s folks on the market saying, ‘Gown like a lady for as soon as! Put on tight garments you would be a lot prettier and your profession could be so significantly better!’ No it would not. It actually wouldn’t.”‘

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When she received actual about mourning a controversial pal:

“I need to have the ability to mourn, I do not need to be shamed for it,” she advised UK outlet the Impartial in April relating to the response to her emotions following XXXTentacion’s homicide in 2018. “I do not assume I deserve getting hate for loving somebody that handed.”

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When she received actual about her love for an iconic NBC comedy:

“Once I get up, I placed on The Workplace. If I am making a burrito, I activate The Workplace,” she advised Elle in March. “I want the distraction so I do not assume. It is like remedy for me. I’ve means an excessive amount of to consider and other people [I don’t want] to disappoint.”

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When she received actual about ageism within the trade:

“When older folks say, ‘What have you learnt about issues like love?’, I do know extra about it than you do as a result of I am feeling it for the primary time proper now, whereas you have not felt that for a very long time,” she advised NME. “That does not imply it’s any much less highly effective, however it’s positively a unique feeling. They’re used to like, heartbreak, ache and simply eager to f–king die, however for a youthful individual that’s all new to you and it is terrifying.”

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When she received actual about her physique picture:

“That was in all probability after I was probably the most insecure. I wasn’t as assured. I could not converse and simply be regular. Once I give it some thought or see footage of me then, I used to be so not OK with who I used to be,” she advised Rolling Stone of her pre-teen dance profession. “At dance, you put on actually tiny garments. And I’ve by no means felt comfy in actually tiny garments. I used to be all the time frightened about my look. That was the height of my physique dysmorphia. I could not look within the mirror in any respect.”

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When she received actual in regards to the state of the world:

“Bro, youngsters know extra in regards to the nation that we’re dwelling in proper now than anyone,” she advised NME. “The world is ending and I truthfully do not perceive the legislation that claims you must be older to vote, as a result of they will die quickly and we’ll must cope with it. That does not make any sense to me. However to see younger folks collaborating in peaceable protests and never obeying is gorgeous.”

To see how the 2019 MTV VMAs shake out for Billie and all the opposite artists nominated, you should definitely tune in to this yr’s ceremony when it airs dwell on Monday, Aug. 26 at eight p.m. solely on MTV.