Billie Eilish doesn’t like calling her listeners ‘fans’

USA — Billie Eilish recently appeared on The Drew Barrymore Show where Barrymore noted that Eilish mentioned in this year’s documentary Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry that she did not like the word “fans” to refer to her listeners, as reported by Buzzfeed.

“You said something that really struck me in the documentary,” Drew asked. “You really have this issue with the word fans, and I was wondering where that stems from?”

Eilish then responded by saying, “I think that the reason that it was so weird to me,” she replied, “was because one moment I was a fan and then suddenly I was looked at as this like higher up, suddenly, even when I was 14, and it was so weird because I was like, I’m not even anyone.”

“I just make music and these kids that I feel like I already know suddenly like, ‘Oh they are Billie’s fans and then there is Billie.’”

“So that’s why it was so weird to me, but I think of them as like, literally my skin, like part of me and like, how I get through stuff. They always have my back.”

“They’re fans just as much as I am a fan,” she concluded, “but that doesn’t make them any less than me or anybody else you know?”

Born Dec 18, 2001, Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell is an American singer and songwriter.

She first gained public attention in 2015 with her debut single “Ocean Eyes”, which was subsequently released by Darkroom, a subsidiary of Interscope Records. The song was written and produced by her brother, Finneas O’Connell, with whom she frequently collaborates on music and in live shows.

Her debut extended play, Don’t Smile at Me (2017), was commercially successful and charted within the top 15 in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.

Eilish’s first studio album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019), debuted atop the US Billboard 200 and reached number one in the UK. It was one of the best-selling albums of 2019, buoyed by the success of its fifth single and Eilish’s first number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100, “Bad Guy”. /TISG