Despite Billie Eilish‘s status as one of the biggest pop stars in the world, she recently admitted that some of the comments that come with her success are often hard to take.
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 positive impact of her songs have had on fans.
On a ‘Songwriter’s Roundtable’ for The Hollywood Reporter alongside other musicians, she confessed that she often found it challenging to accept comments about her music helping people. When fans tell her that, she says 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 the somewhat added pressure may subsequently be affecting the creative process. Fans eagerly await album number three, which Eilish has confessed is almost finished, but that still won’t be out for some time.
She and her brother and co-writer Finneas have confirmed that 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.
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 new 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.
