Interscope Records
I love a good story. Angeleno from Highland Park, Billie Eilish was homeschooled alongside her older brother, Finneas O'Connell. In their highly artistic, eclectic, and musical home they started writing music together in his bedroom. She sang on the bed, hardly a step away, he laid down the tracks. At 13, she released her first track, Ocean Eyes. By age 14, she completed her first track, Bellyache. At 15, her first EP, Don’t Smile at Me. At 17, she performed at Coachella and released her first album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We go?
Accused of being insensitive, insulting, romancing depression and death, and mislabeled as misery music, Eilish calls it storytelling, all I hear is pop. Since its release, I haven’t been able to put it down. Each morning, I wake with a different song of hers in my head. She slinks and scats around in my mind until I scroll through her catalog till I find it. It’s been weeks and I’m still humming different tracks down the hallways, along the sidewalks, and down the stairs. She’s creeped her way into my heart, consider letting her creep into yours.