With over 12 million followers on Instagram alone, it’s fair to say that Billie Eilish is slaying the social media game.
In fact, considering her cutting-edge fashion and signature hair – whether it’s blue, grey or green and black – I wouldn’t be surprised if some people came across her profile before they ever came across her music.
Despite her reach though, she’s actually reluctant to use Instagram, and is sceptical of social media as a whole.
She even called it “insanely dangerous” in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, which is a pretty strong statement.
She went on to explain her attitude, saying “It can completely ruin a relationship, a friendship, yourself. It can ruin how you feel or how you feel like you look.”
With that said, it’s not just the meaning of her spooky music videos that have remained a mystery, as she herself has been pretty cagey in interviews in the past. However, the release of her album as led to a flurry of both new info and interest, which is why we’re counting down the top 20 things you might not know about Billie Eilish.
They say practice makes perfect, and Eilish has definitely put the hours in as far as singing is concerned.
Not content with singing every day at home she took things to the next level when she was just eight years old – as that was when she joined the Los Angeles Children’s Choir.
That much singing alone would constitute a busy schedule for any eight-year-old, but she supplemented that with 11 hours of dance a week.
She managed to fit in all these activities thanks to her family allowing her to be homeschooled from a young age, allowing her more power over her schedule than the average schoolkid.
Her homeschooling even catered to her love of the arts with a more creativity-focused curriculum, which no doubt stood her in good stead for her future career.
Eilish has gained a bit of a reputation for dark imagery in her music videos, and it turns out that’s by design.
Aside from wanting to back up the creepy vibe of the lyrics, she deliberately drew on the movies and TV shows that inspired her, which included some pretty scary picks.
We’ve already addressed The Walking Dead, but she also grew up obsessed with American Horror Story, and couldn’t get enough of Get Out and The Babadook.
She also talked about loving The Human Centipede, but I doubt we’ll see that referenced in her music videos any time soon.
Eilish is far from the only artist to have filled their music videos with horror references, but she’s the first in a little while to blend a horror-adjacent tone with such mainstream success.
Lots of celebrities give their kids weird names, so considering that both her parents are a big deal in the showbiz world, it seems like Eilish might have gotten off easy.
However, she does have a pretty wacky middle name that we’re surprised she doesn’t talk about more often, since it’s not the kind of thing you usually see on a birth certificate.
Turns out, her full name is Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell, which makes her middle name Pirate! Maybe we’ll be getting a nautical-themed concept album next?
Either way, it’s worth mentioning that her brother dealt with none of the naming strife that his sister has, since he was simply called Finneas Baird O’Connell at birth.
Although, that simple name is apparently too much bother for him, since professionally he goes by only Finneas
It’s hard to imagine Eilish doing anything but music now, but singing and songwriting wasn’t always her main passion.
She actually started out as a pretty dedicated dancer, and only got roped into recording a song when her dance teacher asked her to.
As the story goes, Eilish was asked to record a song for her class to choreograph and dance to, and her brother just happened to have a track he was working on.
Of course, she had to spend some time convincing him to work on the song with her instead of her band, but when she did the result was the start of a brand new passion.
Someone should really thank that dance teacher for having the foresight to create a global pop icon.
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