“My parents’ house is literally five minutes away!” she hoots.īillie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell is full-on, in all senses. Within a few seconds, she’s driving again. “Ask me questions!” she says, as she organises herself. As she talks, she holds her phone up at random angles no standard video-call etiquette here – her phone is an accessory, a witness to her life. “We were so in the mindset, I loved it.” She’s pulled over, to get her dog (Shark, a pitbull) to lie on the car floor. Her voice is deeper than you might expect. It was great because I don’t write fast,” Eilish says. “It’s not a Covid album, but it was the first time in four, five years that we had time off to actually make songs, without anybody telling us to, or any deadlines, or any pressure. With her brother, Finneas O’Connell, at the American Music Awards 2020. She’d done three dates of a massive world tour when lockdown arrived, so she and Finneas used the time to write another album. Her first album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, released in 2019, went multi-platinum and landed her five Grammys she picked up another two, this year, for her theme for the still-awaited Bond film No Time To Die and her single Everything I Wanted. Eilish’s intimate, breathy vocals over the driving beat, her eye-rolling, nose-bleeding, blue-haired look in the video, and the flip of the lyrics (“I’m that bad type… might-seduce-your-dad type”) took her stratospheric.

But within a few months, something happened: in 2017, her EP Don’t Smile At Me made a splash with young fans, and a year or so later Wish You Were Gay and Bad Guy smashed her into the mainstream. At her early gigs she had to sit outside on the pavement before shows, not allowed in because she was underage. She uploaded it on to SoundCloud, where it gained a couple of thousand listens and almost instantaneously landed her a management deal. She’s 19 now, a music veteran of six years, ever since she made a track, Ocean Eyes, with her songwriter elder brother, Finneas O’Connell, known professionally as Finneas, for her dance class. Such bombastic attitude is forgivable, because Eilish is a teenager, albeit one of the most famous in the world.

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