Billie Eilish CREDIT: Kevin Mazur/Getty Photographs for Reside NationBillie Eilish has revealed she has 16 new songs within the works with brother and producer Finneas.
Within the fourth version of her annual retrospective interview with Vainness Truthful, Eilish, now 18, opened up about identification, utilizing her platform for good, the tumultuous yr that’s been 2020, and the way she’s been filling the time – engaged on new music.
“Proper now I’ve 16,” the singer responded when requested what number of songs she was at the moment engaged on. “We’ve been working. And I like all of them.”
Eilish additionally mentioned feeling extra assured in her songwriting skills, advocating for herself and speaking her concepts.
“I believe Finneas and I’ve simply severely actually gotten within the groove. We do it so quick,” she defined.
“There was a time period, a month in the past or one thing, we have been simply texting the label like, ‘Music finished, one other tune finished, one other tune finished.’ So, I’m so a lot better at it. I find it irresistible a lot extra. I really actually do take pleasure in it now and I do really feel like I’m fairly good at it now.”
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Elsewhere within the interview, Eilish mentioned her favorite artists in the meanwhile – Arlo Parks, Ashnikko, and The Strokes’ newest album ‘The New Irregular’.
Echoing feedback she made in a recent interview with Zane Lowe, the singer additionally touched on a interval of identification disaster and feeling like a “parody of [herself]”.
“It’s similar to, you overlook, I’m actually 18. It’s humorous that I’m anticipated to have discovered myself and keep it up. It’s like, I don’t know, I’m attempting various things out, I’m attempting alternative ways of dwelling and kinds and personalities, hairstyles and clothes and footwear, I’m simply attempting all of it out, as a result of I’m a rising fucking woman.”
Final month, Eilish shared new single ‘Therefore I Am’, performing it dwell for the primary time at this year’s AMAs.
In a five-star assessment, NME praised Eilish’s continued sonic experimentation, and referred to as her introspective lyricism a “fascinating thread in her music”.
“She’s not alone on this strategy, however few do it fairly as candidly – her stage self-awareness continues to result in some actually addictive songwriting.”
Earlier this month, Eilish was additionally nominated for a handful of Grammy Awards for her observe ‘Every part I Needed’, together with Music of the Yr and Greatest Pop Solo Efficiency.
