Billie Eilish

Frances Moore, the CEO of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, praises the 18-year-old hitmaker for taking the world by storm with her incredible voice and genre-defying sound.
Mar 11, 2020
AceShowbiz – Billie Eilish’s 2020 keeps getting better – her 2019 hit “Bad Guy” has been crowned the world’s top single by bosses at the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.
The track was the most listened to song of the last 12 months, and was downloaded 19.5 million times – a million more than second-placed “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X.
“Billie Eilish has taken the world by storm with her incredible voice and genre-defying sound,” IFPI CEO Frances Moore says.

The 18-year-old picked up five Grammy Awards in February and became the youngest artist to record a James Bond theme.

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In an interlude between songs, audience members are shown a clip of the Grammy-winning singer slowly removing her shirt to eventually stand in just her bra.
Mar 11, 2020
AceShowbiz – Billie Eilish hit out at those who judge her body having “never seen” it as she shed her famously oversized clothes for a video on her new tour.
The 18-year-old singer is known for her love of boxy tops and loose-fitting trousers, which always conceal her figure. But as she kicked off her “Where Do We Go? Tour” at Miami’s American Airlines Arena on Monday night, March 9, Billie seized the opportunity to showcase a different side of herself.
In an interlude between songs, audience members were shown a clip of the teenager slowly undressing – removing her shirt to eventually stand in just her bra.
The video, which was shared on Twitter by concertgoers, was accompanied by a voiceover by Billie, in which she mused about why people are so judgmental of her figure.
“You have opinions, about my opinions, about my music, about my clothes, about my body,” she began. “Some people hate what I wear, some people praise it, some people use it to shame others, some people use it to shame me. But I feel you watching, always, and nothing I do goes unseen.
“So while I feel your stares, your disapproval, or your sigh of relief, if I lived by them, I’d never be able to move.”
Asking if fans wanted her to be “smaller, weaker, softer, taller”, Billie continued: “The body I was born with is it not what you wanted? If I wear what is comfortable, I am not a woman. If I shed the layers, I’m a s**t. Though you’ve never seen my body, you still judge it, and judge me for it – why?”
Concluding, Billie said: “We make assumptions about people, based on their size. we decide who they are, we decide what they’re worth. If I wear more, if I wear less, who decides what that makes me? What that means? Is my value based only on your perception? Or is your opinion of me not my responsibility?”

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The ‘Bad Guy’ hitmaker continues to be unstoppable as she wins big at the Grammys, delivers a touching performance at the Oscars, and makes history with her James Bond song.
Mar 2, 2020
AceShowbiz – 2020 is bound to be another big year for young rising star Billie Eilish. She kicked off the new year with a bang as she took home a total of five Golden Gramophones including the coveted Album of the Year at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards back in January.
She made history as the youngest person and first woman to win the four main categories, Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Album of the Year, in the same year. It’s all thanks to her debut album “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?”.
The 18-year-old singer/songwriter then followed it up with a performance at the biggest movie awards, the Oscars. Joined by her brother Finneas O’Connell, she delivered a touching rendition of The Beatles’ ever-lasting single “Yesterday” during the “In Memoriam” segment.
On top of that, she has been enlisted to sing the title track for the upcoming twenty-fifth installment in the James Bond film franchise, “No Time to Die”. With her brother as a producer, she became the youngest artist in history to write and record a 007 theme song.
Shortly after it’s released and debuted during her live performance at the Brit Awards, the single soared to No. 1 on the U.K. charts. It became the second Bond song to top the charts and also gave the female artist her first number one single in the United Kingdom.
Despite all her accomplishments, Billie Eilish keeps herself grounded. On the Grammy night during the Album of the Year winner announcement, she was caught on camera repeatedly mouthing, “Please don’t be me,” before yelling, “No!!” when she’s announced as the victor.
During her acceptance speech, she revealed she was actually rooting for fellow artist Ariana Grande. “Can I just say that I think Ariana deserves this?” she said. ” ‘Thank U, Next’ got me through some s**t, and I think it deserves this more than anything in the world.”
Her brother later explained her reluctance to receive the award, “We were both kind of embarrassed to win so much; you hope that it will be kind of equal, but after the third in a row…well, we love all of our fellow nominees.”
She also had an unlikely reaction to her Oscar performance. Despite getting rave reviews online, she said it could have been better. “I bombed that performance,” she said. “That was trash.”

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Joined by her brother Finneas on the piano, the songstress wows both the audience and viewers at home with her rendition of the Daniel Craig-starring movie’s theme song.
Feb 19, 2020
AceShowbiz – Billie Eilish has left audience and viewers at the 2020 BRIT Awards stunned. On Tuesday night, February 18, the “Bad Guy” hitmaker took the stage at The O2 Arena in London to deliver her first live performance of her new James Bond theme song, “No Time to Die”.
Donning a black two-piece with her loose neon green tinted locks, the 18-year-old singer was accompanied by her record producer brother, Finneas O’Connell, on the piano. “Fool me once, fool me twice/ Are you death or paradise?/ Now you’ll never see me cry/ There’s just no time to die,” she belted out while audience could be heard occasionally shouting, “I love you!”
Joining Billie and Finneas for the special performance were the film’s composer Hans Zimmer as well as The Smiths’ ex-guitarist Johnny Marr.
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At the prize-giving show, the multiple Grammy winner was presented with Best International Female Solo Artist kudo from Spice Girls’ Melanie C. When accepting the accolade, she confessed, “I’ve felt very hated recently. And, when I was on the stage and I saw you guys all smiling at me. It genuinely made me wanna cry. And I wanna cry right now, so thank you.”
Hours before her live performance, Billie talked about being asked to sing the Bond theme song. During an interview with BBC Breakfast, she shared, “We’ve been wanting to make a Bond song for years. I remember at the beginning of last year we kind of told our whole team, ‘Hey, if any Bond things come up, we want to be involved if we can possibly be. Whatever we have to do we will do.’ ”
Speaking of the song’s live debut at the show, the “Wish You Were Gay” singer admitted, “I’m so scared.” She continued to share, “We’ve never performed it ever, so it feels so weird that it’s in the public, especially now that I’m performing it and I’m hitting a note I’ve never hit before. I’m scared.”

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Aside from talking about her ‘Yesterday’ cover in an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, the ‘Bad Guy’ hitmaker admits she felt somewhat out of place at the coveted awards ceremony.
Feb 15, 2020
AceShowbiz – Billie Eilish wasn’t a fan of her performance at the Oscars last weekend (February 09), calling it “trash.”
The 18-year-old singer performed a cover of The Beatles’ “Yesterday” during the In Memoriam segment, when pictures of people the entertainment world has lost during the past year were shown on a screen.
However, during an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, set to air on Friday, Billie revealed she was poorly for the awards ceremony, and doesn’t think her rendition of the tune was one of her best.
“I was sick for all of the Oscars, I bombed that performance,” she said. “That was trash.”
Billie went on to admit she felt somewhat out of place during the Oscars, because she didn’t know many of the famous faces who were there.
“I’m not used to that,” she said. “At least the Grammys wasn’t as scary because it was, like, artists,” she explained. “And it felt like my people, it felt like, ‘Oh, look, a bunch of artists!’ And I knew a lot of them already and I’d met them and they knew of me.”
The teenager was speaking to promote her new song from the film “No Time to Die”. She penned the tune with brother FINNEAS in just three days, and said having the chance to work with her sibling on something so massive as a Bond theme was a lifelong dream.

“You know what’s funny about it, like two years ago, we were like, wouldn’t it be crazy to make a song for the Bond movies, and, like, wouldn’t that be dope?” she explained. “And so, kind of for two years-ish, we’ve been subconsciously trying to… in our own way. And, like, we’ve written songs that have never come out that are, like, oh, this sounds like Bond, like, this would be dope, like, it would never happen, whatever. And then this offer came up and we were like, ‘Ahhhh!’ ”

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Proving her haters wrong, the Grammy-winning songstress showcases her high notes on the moody track she produces alongside her brother and longtime collaborator Finneas.
Feb 14, 2020
AceShowbiz – Back when Billie Eilish was announced as “No Time to Die” theme song singer, many cast doubts that she would do as good as Adele or Sam Smith due to her musical style. However, the Grammy-winning singer proved the critics wrong when she released the song on Thursday evening, February 13, setting Internet abuzz.
Co-written by her and her brother Finneas, the haunting ballad finds Billie showcasing her raw, soulful vocalization over piano-driven melodies. Proving those who expected it to be a “whisper” song wrong, she even flexes her high notes towards the end of the song, before she continues singing, “Fool me once, fool me twice/ Are you death or paradise?/ Now you’ll never see me cry/ There’s just no time to die.”
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Following the release of the song, Billie’s name soon started trending on social media with a lot of people heaping praises for her. “Everyone who says ‘bIlLie EiLiSh cAnT sInG sHe WhIsPeRs’ needs to re-evaluate immediately,” one says. “Just died listening to Billie eilish new song even tho the title is no time to die,” another quipped.
“Beautiful. Billie Eilish puts her raw emotion into her music and that’s why I love it so much,” someone else gushed, as another praised Billie, “Her voice is totally made for this song! She’s taken a lot of stick and proven so many wrong. Well done Billie.” There was also one who said, “LOL I SAID TO MYSELF, this sounds like its from james bond lmao, looked at the screen again and saw oo7 at the top. Wow she really did empower her theme correctly. Good work Billie.”
Billie is the youngest artist to ever write and record a James Bond theme. She’s set to perform the song for the first time at the Brit Awards in London on February 18. In a statement to Variety, she said of her participation, “It feels crazy to be a part of this in every way. To be able to score the theme song to a film that is part of such a legendary series is a huge honor. James Bond is the coolest film franchise ever to exist. I’m still in shock.”
“No Time to Die” is set for an April 10 release in the United States.

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