Billie Eilish finds it “hard to believe” her music helps people
Billie Eilish has disclosed that she still struggles with accepting the impact of her music, which she described as “hard to believe”.
In recent years, Eilish has headlined festivals such as Glastonbury and Coachella, and broken countless records in the music industry, yet she’s still not adjusted to the scale of her success. Furthermore, the personal relationship that fans have developed with her catalogue of songs.
On a ‘Songwriter’s Roundtable’ for The Hollywood Reporter alongside other musicians, Eilish divulged that she often found it challenging to accept comments about her music helping people. When fans tell her of its use as a remedy, the singer-songwriter admitted it was “hard to take in.”
“I don’t really know how to like believe it, because I know what it’s like to be in that position and it’s so real,” she said, “and to know that you’re helping somebody who’s in that is really hard to believe and astounding and special and almost you feel like undeserving… like I didn’t deserve to help you through that.”
Eilish doesn’t take these comments lightly, and is well aware of the demands rested on her shoulders. Currently, fans of the ‘Bad Guy’ singer are eagerly awaiting news regarding album number three, which Eilish previously revealed is almost finished, but refused to put a timeline on completion.
Along with her brother and co-writer Finneas, Eilish confirmed the new record has taken much longer than either of them predicted. “It’s [taken] longer than we’d like,” she said, “as always. It takes time to get the record made and get the artwork done.”
Finneas also said in a recent interview that the third album was “85% done” but that the process has been “challenging”.
“I don’t think Billie was particularly sure about how she actually felt about the things we were trying to write about,” he said.
Additionally, Eilish has even confessed to having writer’s block recently, only snapping out of it when she was asked to put together the would-be hit for the Barbie movie, ‘What Was I Made For?’ That single has since won a Golden Globe and is one of the singer’s biggest songs to date.
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