If you are a Billie Eilish fan to any diploma, you already know about her well-known annual interviews with Vanity Fair. She does the very same interview yearly, with the identical questions — all whereas reacting to the solutions she gave when she was youthful.
Well, get able to really feel previous, as a result of the primary interview was in 2017 and the final one simply got here out — which means we’re now on the EIGHTH YEAR. As a Billie fan who remembers the primary interview vividly, this shocked me to my core.
And on this yr’s interview, Billie did NOT disappoint, revealing tons of attention-grabbing particulars about her yr. And I’m telling you, it is fascinating whether or not you are a Billie fan or not. So right here goes my helpful little recap:
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In one of many first clips, Billie says her age — 22 on the time of filming, however she’s now 23. “This is the primary yr in my life that I maintain forgetting how previous I’m,” she explains.
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In a dialogue about her greatest accomplishments of the yr, successful her second Oscar for “What Was I Made For?” was an enormous one. “I form of can’t consider that occurred once more,” she says, noting that she’s now the youngest particular person to win two Oscars. “I really feel happy with it. I’m proud to have made it.”
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In a clip from two years in the past, Billie says, “I actually wanna do […] issues that I might die due to,” like bungee leaping and skydiving. And 2024-Billie reacts to this with a thumbs up, indicating that she has certainly performed some death-defying actions this yr.
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And in case there are any super-fans on the market — or anybody who’s tremendous fascinated by tattoos — Billie reveals that she’s gotten extra tattoos this yr too.
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Billie additionally reveals she’s made much more connections as of late. “I’ve performed nothing however make associates all yr, and gotten so shut with those who I wasn’t with earlier than, and have become associates with individuals I was associates with once more,” she says. Billie notes that her yr was “crammed with friendship,” which was the one factor she needed most in earlier years.
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In response to a different aim she made final yr — the place she mentioned she needs to have “good intercourse” sooner or later — Billie replies, “Yes, I’ve had numerous good intercourse. So, you’re welcome, Billie.”
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Billie opens up about her tooth being an enormous insecurity — there’s even a clip of her calling them “ugly” in a earlier yr. “I chipped one other tooth,” she mentioned this yr. “So not solely did I not repair the opposite chip, however I additionally chipped one other one.” She identified the place her chips are.
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In a clip from final yr, Billie discusses not desirous to do something doesn’t need to do — and never letting different individuals take away her “sparkle.” This yr, she says she’s caught to her aim. “I actually belief myself, and I believe, like, particularly that 2022 lady, I don’t assume I trusted her. So I actually belief myself now, and I’m not gonna let any of that occur once more.”
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And this miiiiight give some extra context to that 2022 clip — as a result of proper after, Billie talks about how “scary” falling in love is. “It’s exhausting to know what’s happening, since you’re form of blinded by this curtain of lust and love and admiration,” she mentioned, noting that she’s been “cautious” as of latest.
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And OK, this can be a massive one. Billie mentioned her favorite artist of the yr is none apart from Lady Gaga. “Like, previous Lady Gaga. It’s so good. ‘Alejandro’ and ‘Poker Face’ and ‘G.U.Y.’ and ‘Born This Way.’”
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Along these strains, she mentioned her favorite film of the yr is Secretary, the 2002 romcom starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, together with Fruitvale Station. The latter, she’s talked about as her fave in earlier interviews, however Secretary is a brand new addition.
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Of course, Billie launched her third studio album this yr, Hit Me Hard and Soft. And truly, she says that making the album was “such a drag.” “It was so punishing,” she admits. “But I really feel like it’s the smartest thing that Finneas and I’ve ever made.”
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In a clip from final yr, we see Billie predict which songs can be common — and TBH, she completely nailed it. “There’s this one track known as ‘Lunch’ that I believe individuals would possibly like lots,” 2023 Billie says. “There’s a track known as ‘Birds of a Feather.’”
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A giant subject on this yr’s video was touring, since Billie is presently on the street. “Touring was one thing that was extraordinarily disagreeable,” she revealed, “and I’d solely dread it. And the one cause I, you already know, did it in any respect was as a result of I beloved performing, and I all the time have.” So yeah, we discovered Billie used to not like touring.
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But she’s not too long ago modified her tune. “I had this second like a yr in the past, the place I used to be form of like, ‘Touring doesn’t must be depressing. And I don’t have to simply sit by it and take it. I could make it enjoyable. I imply, I’m the fucking boss, for God’s sake!’” So she sat down together with her group and found out “methods to make [touring] enjoyable.” “I don’t need to be so tortured by it that I find yourself by no means doing it once more as a result of I’m resentful,” she says.
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Billie reacts to a clip of her from 2017, the place she says her greatest present ever on the time was 500 individuals. “I can’t actually give it some thought an excessive amount of as a result of it’ll make me cry,” 2024-Billie says, “after which it’ll additionally give me an existential disaster. But I can’t consider the best way my life has gone.”
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In response to a query about which artist she’d like to collab with, 2023-Billie says, “No one. You listeners don’t perceive how disagreeable it’s to collaborate with individuals. It isn’t a enjoyable expertise.”
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And then a photograph of Billie with Charli xcx, who she did certainly collab with this yr, got here on the display…so Billie discusses how the collab with Charli was her “preferrred approach” — in that it was very fast, and didn’t require a lot additional work.
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In relation to the “Guess” collab, too, Billie revealed that their collab “was going to be one other track.” But in the long run, after all, they selected “Guess,” a track Billie known as “scorching.”
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Sorry, one final Charli xcx one…Billie reacted to a clip of her from the 2017 interview that was soooo meta. In the clip, 2017-Billie holds up a photograph of her and Charli xcx, as a result of it was the most-liked photograph on Billie’s Instagram on the time. And now, seven years later, they collabbed for the primary time. “Wow, that’s so humorous! Full circle, huh?” Billie mentioned.
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Billie talked about some attention-grabbing discrepancies within the rumours that flow into about her — notably in the case of courting. “Literally any man that I’m close to, it’s like, ‘That’s Billie’s boyfriend.’ It’s bizarre, as a result of I’m truly photographed extra with girls, and far more incriminating photographs of me with girls than males, they usually’re like, ‘Billie and her greatest buddy!’”
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