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With her highly anticipated third album coming out this Friday, May 17, the 22-year-old American is once again making a splash in the music world. She embodies everything that is missing in pop today: uncertainty sung brilliantly.
“I spent so much time with myself that I couldn’t look at myself anymore. And then I dyed my hair blonde and when I looked in the mirror I thought, ‘I have absolutely no idea who I am.'” Billie Eilish is Mulholland Drive all by herself, it’s Joan Didion in an XXL hoodie, it’s the steppe wolf by Hermann Hesse lost on Interstate 5, navigating between electric Porsches and Teslas on autopilot. A cruel tale of a youth taken off the rails too early, unceremoniously thrown straight towards glory and ultra-fame, anonymous hotel rooms and harassing fans who ring the doorbell. To protect herself, Billie Eilish adopted a pit bull called Shark who, this is not making it up, is depressed and must be treated with anxiolytics – “That doesn’t stop him from being able to rip your face off if you show up at my house.” she specifies in the latest issue of the American edition of Rolling Stone. While Beyoncé crushes everyone on horseback and Taylor Swift burns the ice floe with her private jet, Billie Eilish refuses to go to the parties organized by her neighbor the actress Zoë Kravitz because she is afraid that we find her annoying and have an anxiety attack on the evening of her 20th birthday