Billie Eilish: 'When I was starting out, one of the only things I heard was that the music was too dark, too sad, too depressing... All I was hearing was ‘Smile! Talk about how much you love yourself!’ & I was literally at a time when I didn’t love myself'
The scene wouldn’t be so striking if the artist calling the shots wasn’t a diminutive, fluorescent-green-haired teenager. But make no mistake, Billie Eilish is a boss, the epicenter of an accidental family business that has become an industry of its own as she’s rapidly grown into the breakthrough artist of the year.
“We take the lead from her and set her up to be in control,” says John Janick, chairman and CEO of Interscope Geffen A&M. “I want artists with vision, who know what they want, and she had that at 14. She’s an old soul with a unique and strong point of view, and she’s like a Mack truck, strong-willed and unstoppable. She is the CEO of Billie Eilish.”Born Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell and raised in L.A.
Her team — generally comprising her family, managers Danny Rukasin and Brandon Goodman, day-to-day manager Laura Ramsay, Lubliner, publicist Alexandra Baker and several Interscope execs — assembled around her in the months after “Ocean Eyes,” her breakthrough song, was first posted on SoundCloud late in 2015, and all along has worked to find an elusive balance between maintaining star-maker machinery and keeping an adolescent healthy.
,” where she sings in a near-murmur, “I had a dream: I got everything I wanted / Not what you think, and if I’m being honest / It might have been a nightmare. … ’Cause everybody wants something from me now / And I don’t want to let them down.”A staple of any Eilish concert is the gaggle of wide-eyed fans, many accompanied by parents, who line up for the nightly VIP meet-and-greets.
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