Billie Eilish: Same Interview, The Eighth Year

Once again, like it happens every year,

I thought I had more time, and then it's October 18th again.

[camera beeping]

My name is Billie Eilish.

Billie Eilish.

Billie Eilish.

Billie Eilish.

Billie Eilish.

Billie Eilish.

I'm Billie Eilish.

I'm looking at all the frozen years past.

Love you all.

I'm Billie Eilish.

I think it's October 18th.

It's October 18th.

October 18th.

I'm 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,

I'm 22.

This is the first year in my life that I

keep forgetting how old I am.

257,000.

6.3 million.

40.7.

67.5.

94.1 million followers.

106.

110.

120 million?

Another year, seven years,

this is the eighth video, right?

But it was seven years ago today that we started this,

but we didn't put out a video last year, it's true.

[hands whooshing]

It was a big, big year.

Just the whole Barbie thing, swarm, tour,

I finally played Brazil, Labrinth.

Yep, live at the O2.

Yeah, Coachella.

Bad Guy went diamond.

I'm back on my bullshit, I want to do more.

What does that mean, I want to do more.

Wow, why was I yelling?

I've spent a lot of time in the last, like this summer,

looking at videos and photos like this month.

Since then, so much has happened, it's nonsense.

I have the most monthly listeners,

right, on Spotify in the entire world.

So I surpassed 100 million monthly listeners,

and then now I am the most streamed artist in the world

on Spotify.

I released my album, went on tour again,

I made so many new friends, adopted another dog,

it's been a friendship filled year.

I and Finneas won an Oscar for What Was I Made For?

I can't even really describe how amazing that was,

and then it was like we were the youngest people in history

to win two, or something crazy.

Ooh, did I predict it?

Am I going to win the Oscar?

Ooh.

I don't know.

We're manifesting, but we're also not going to be

disappointed and angry if I don't,

and I do think objectively it is one

of the best songs I've ever made.

I think it's crazy that we would win again.

Again!

Yeah, I kind of can't believe that happened again.

I feel proud of it and I'm proud to have made it,

proud that it is of me.

Want to rescue some horses, maybe skydive,

like a bungee jump off a cliff or something,

I really want to do stuff like that,

things that I could die because of.

I want to adventure so bad, I do want to skydive,

haven't done that yet,

be doing racing, be doing stunt driving.

I definitely want some more piercings,

I want some more tattoos, another dog,

be hanging out with your family,

be making new friends, be having new friends,

be having good sex.

[Billie laughing]

[bright music]

Got there.

I've done nothing but make friends all year

and gotten so close with people that I wasn't with before

and became friends with people

I used to be friends with again, and just like,

it's just been a year filled with friendship,

which honestly, even though I was saying a lot of things

that I want to do, that was the real,

that was like the thing that I wanted to do,

and I really did it, and it was awesome.

And yes, I've had a lot of good sex,

so you're welcome, Billie.

[Billie laughing]

I want you to have fixed the little chip.

You can see it, 2018 did it to me.

And when I'm smiling, my tooth is so ugly.

Whiten those suckers.

My God. [Billie laughing]

I'll have you know, miss red hair,

that I chipped another tooth.

[Billie laughing]

So not only did I not fix the other chip,

but I also chipped another one,

so now I have a chip here and a chip here.

I also remember really wanting me at that time

to fix this little gap as well,

and I'm in the process, okay?

God.

Hopefully keep doing what you're doing,

because I hope that what you're doing is good.

Don't do that thing again where you just do

what somebody else wants to do.

We're not going to let somebody take away my sparkle,

as they say.

Solid advice, and I haven't done that,

that really has stuck in my head,

and I think that I used to pretend like I was doing that,

but I think since then, I really have been doing that,

and I really trust myself, and I think,

especially that 2022 girl,

I don't think I trusted her.

So, I really trust myself now,

and I'm not going to let any of that stuff happen again,

and it hasn't happened again

and I've been very cautious about that.

And it's always scary when you, you know, fall in love,

or you're, you know, seeing someone,

or you like someone, or whatever it is,

and it's hard to know what the hell's going on

because you're kind of blinded by this curtain of,

you know, lust and love and admiration.

So, I was very cautious and have been cautious,

I'm currently cautious,

and I've been really a good girl.

So, not disappointing you, I promise.

Brockhampton.

Tiarra Whack.

Tekno.

Arlo Parks.

The Do.

Cake, The Cardigans, Dora, You Know Who, and then also me.

Deftones, a lot of Deftones, Mazzy Star,

this album called Sunburn by Dominic Fike.

Honestly, I've been listening to a lot of Lady Gaga,

like old Lady Gaga, it's so good.

Alejandro, and Poker Face, and G.U.Y.,

and Born This Way.

Fruitvale Station.

Our Origins.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a solid choice.

Sicario, that shit is fire.

Fruitvale Station.

[Billie laughing]

That movie's fucking fire, though, it's a great movie,

but Secretary.

I feel really good about it, I think we're like 85% done,

maybe 90.

It's very genuinely what I wanted to make, I think.

It's true.

Like it was just such a drag, it was so punishing,

but I feel like it is the best thing

that Finneas and I have ever made,

and I'm so endlessly proud of it, like you don't even know.

I used to have this feeling with my music

like I liked it, but I was kind of embarrassed

for people that I thought were cool to listen to it.

Like anytime somebody that I thought was really cool

said they listened to my song, I'd get all embarrassed

and nervous and kind of frustrated and annoyed, honestly.

I'd be like, No, don't listen to that,

like that's private.

And I think I wasn't as proud of it,

and I think that now in my life

and where I am in my career, I really stand for my music,

like I feel really proud of it.

There's this one song called Lunch that I think

people might like a lot.

There's a song called Birds of a Feather,

damn, I'm giving you titles, whoa.

My prediction then, that I don't know why I didn't even say,

but it was what I was thinking then

was I thought Lunch would be the hit,

but I also remember being like,

But watch, 'Birds of a Feather' is going to

end up being the real hit.

Lunch was big when this album came out,

and then Birds,

Birds is number one.

Lowest point of the year was probably in January,

I had a meeting with my managers and stuff,

they were showing me the schedule for the whole year,

and I sat there and was totally silent and totally still,

and just tears, just streamed down my face.

That was horrible, a horrible day.

Gosh, I mean, you know, I was like, had just turned 17

and life was seeming very daunting

and ended up being even more intense

than I ever cried about.

If I had really known how it would all go,

I would've been bawling my eyes out for days,

but also, I would've been excited at the same time.

The reason I was crying in that story

is because I was looking at my touring schedule

and it was like, you know, it's horrifying

to see your life planned out like that two years in advance,

especially for a little girl.

I wish that I hadn't had to deal with that,

but also my life's fucking awesome

and I'm really lucky at the same time.

Touring used to be something that

was extremely unpleasant, and I would dread it,

and I would only dread it.

And the only reason I, you know, did it at all

was because I loved performing, and I always have,

and even when I dreaded those tours,

and you know, hated the whole process,

I loved performing at the end of the day.

I had this moment like a year ago or two,

a year ago I think, where I was kind of like,

Touring doesn't have to be miserable,

and I don't have to just sit through it and take it,

I can make it fun, I mean, I'm the fucking boss

for God's sake.

And I sat down with my touring team

and I was like, Let's figure out all the ways

to make this fun, because this is my job,

and it's my life, and I want to keep doing it,

and I don't want to, you know,

be so tortured by it that I end up never doing it again

because I am resentful of, you know?

And so I've created a, you know,

surrounding that is

just joyous, and filled with laughter and love,

and for the first time in my life, once again,

the words are coming out of my mouth that are,

I wish this tour would never end.

[Billie gasping]

I do have a concert tonight, yeah,

and I had one last night, and the night before that,

and tomorrow I'm on SNL.

Three show nights in a row is a lot,

[Billie laughing]

but it's okay.

It was at the Crocodile in Seattle

and it was like 500 I think.

Was that me saying that was my biggest show?

Wow.

Aw.

It's impossible to try to, you know,

take in and acknowledge even.

I mean, it's so, I can't really think about it too much

because it'll make me cry,

and then it'll also give me an existential crisis.

But, I can't believe the way my life has gone

and where it is now.

I mean, it's just like,

the craziest fucking thing in the world.

No one.

You listeners don't understand how unpleasant it is

to collaborate with people, it is not a fun experience.

[Billie laughing]

The back to back.

Ah.

I mean, it's Charli, though, but it's Charli.

Also, Charli and I did this collab

in the greatest way possible, like my ideal way,

where, you know, she put out her amazing album,

Guess was on the extended version,

and I heard it because somebody posted it

because it came out, and I remember being like,

Hot, wow, such a hot song, wow, that's such a good song.

God, I wish I had a song like that.

And I just went on with my life.

And then weeks later, Finneas went to her show,

he was talking with her and one of her teammates

or something, I don't even know who he was talking to,

and they just talked about, you know,

Ah, would Billie be down, you know, we should do a,

Billie should hop on something.

And had a call with her, talked about it,

it was going to be another song,

and then we decided on Guess,

and then like she sent us stems,

Finneas and I went on a hike, came back,

went into the studio, sat there, played the song,

wrote a verse, sent it back.

That's my dream, that's my dream.

Finneas came up with the first line being,

Don't have to guess the color of your underwear.

And then I was like, Okay, period.

And then we both just sat there, twiddling her thumbs,

writing, and then wrote that verse, sent it back,

she sent something back for her,

I sent something back for her,

and then we literally shot a video like two days later,

and then the video got edited the next day

and it came out like the next day.

It was the craziest, fastest, like that is the dream,

that is the fucking dream, anyway.

It's a picture of me and Charli XCX,

and it has 69,608 likes.

Oh my God.

So cute, so innocent,

and just excited about everything.

Wow, that's so funny.

Full circle, huh?

Any person that I have ever been around, I'm dating.

It's so crazy.

Literally any man that I am near, it's like,

That's Billie's boyfriend,

and that's the person she's dating.

It's crazy.

And then it's weird because I'm actually photographed

more with women, and way more incriminating photos of me

with women than men, and they're like,

Billie and her best friend.

It's really funny, it's so weird.

I'll see you next time, and the time after that,

and the time after that,

until I'm an old lady.

Speaking of old ladies, Mom!

This is my mom, she is sick as a booty.

I don't mind, I can stay here that long.

I love you.

[Billie laughing] [Maggie smooching]

I love you too.

Hello, baby. His grandma.

[Billie laughing]

Ah. I love you, Billie.

Mommy, come hither.

Hi. I love you,

I love you so much.

[hand thudding]

I love you very much.

Mother. Okay.

Join me again. That was a lot.

New hair.

[Billie laughing]

Hi. Hi.

She's back, we're back.

Hi, Mom. Hi, precious,

I love you. Isn't she so pretty?

[Maggie smooching]

I love you so much. I love you so much.

You're sweet. Seven years to the day, Mom.

Oh my gosh.

And we were in New York, remember?

Oh my gosh, yeah. On the first one.

That was crazy, we never knew what was going

to happen with it. I know,

I just was saying that.

[Maggie laughing]

She's the one that- No.

That helps me have a brain and,

[Maggie laughing]

you know, use my platform for good and-

No. Do all the things

I need to do.

Mm, yes, I hope you have a very busy year.

What the fuck?

With your album comes out, and you have so much fun,

and you have such a fun- Oh, boy.

Year making videos, and playing pickleball,

and cooking, [Billie laughing]

and not jumping off of things.

Dude, I'm going to be, you just have to accept

I'm going to jump off stuff.

[Maggie and Billie laughing]

And you stay healthy.

I've been cooking. You have been cooking.

I actually have been cooking,

I've been reading. And you have so many

good friends, and you take good care of yourself,

and you laugh so much, and you have so much fun,

and I love seeing it.

[Maggie smooching]

Love it.

Mm, I love you.

Look.

[Maggie laughing]

Aw. Aw.

My gosh.

Off to MSG we go.

[hands clapping] [Billie smooching]

[everyone cheering]

That's all for you, that's all for you.

[Billie smooching]

[bright music]