What’s up y’all, it’s Emile Ennis Jr.
with Clevver News, and Lady Gaga revealed
that she wants to take Billie Eilish under
her wing and act as her mentor.
As if we don’t already LOVE us a female
power collab, Lady Gaga has offered up her
selfless assistance to one of this year’s
most famous stars.
While speaking to Apple Music, Gaga, who admitted
she lacked a strong female lead to help guide
her while she was rising to fame, had reached
out to Billie to congratulate her on her 2020
Grammy sweep, but more importantly to offer
to be that person for her.
She said QUOTE, “Billie swept a whole bunch
of awards so I said, ‘Let’s send some
flowers’. I wrote her a note. For me, it’s
healing because it hurt me that I didn’t
get that. I’m going to be that for someone
else.”
Since Gaga never had that female mentor growing
up, she revealed that Elton John has been
her longtime mentor to help navigate her way
through fame, which is fitting considering
they just released a collab called “Sine
From Above” released on Gaga’s latest
Chromatica album, but there’s something
much different and more powerful about female
empowerment, as Gaga said, “This idea that
we’re rooting for each other, cheering each
other on, is so important.”
I love Billie Eilish, I love all these younger
artists, I’m there for you. I love you.
I am not in competition with anyone. I want
everyone to win. I’m support, like, I wanna
support and love.
For Gaga, however, it hasn’t exactly been
easy to seek the help of an older female artist.
She added, “I’ve had a harder time with
­older women in terms of having a female
­mentor. Other than Celine Dion and Carole
King, it’s proven ­difficult to have someone
who would show me the way. So I really hope
that young female artists – or young artists
of any gender identity or sexual identity
– will know that I am rooting for them.”
Other artists have even admitted to finding
themselves a female mentor within the industry,
including Normani, who revealed that Ariana
Grande has been her mentor, helping to write
and advise her on her debut album.
The two most likely became even closer while
Normani toured with Ari on the first leg of
her Sweetener world tour last year, and it
seems they’ve remained as close as ever.
Billie also revealed that Ari has been a huge
inspiration to her, as she couldn’t help
but gush about Ari and the strength she exudes
during an interview at the 2019 ASCAP Pop
Music Awards.
She said QUOTE, “You can just tell she knows
what the f**k she’s doing, and even if she
doesn’t realize it, she knows what the f**k
she’s doing. And it’s really impressive.
She just deals with it so well. It’s so
impressive.”
In recent weeks, Billie left fans confused
when she unfollowed everyone on Instagram
after cryptically telling fans that if she
is following any of their abusers, to DM her
and she will unfollow.
This occurred just shortly after many celebrities
were accused by fans of sexual assault, including
Justin Bieber, Cole Sprouse, Chris D’elia
and many others, and it appears things got
so out of hand that Billie decided to unfollow
literally everyone.
Billie has also been scrutinized time and
time again for everything from her showing
too much skin in a bathing suit, to covering
her body in her signature baggy style.
Earlier this year, she shared photos from
a vacation in Hawaii with some friends, which
led many fans to fire off comments basically
slut-shaming her for wearing a bikini.
She later recalled the incident during an
interview with Dazed magazine, saying QUOTE,
“I saw comments like, ‘How dare she talk
about not wanting to be sexualized and wear
this?!' It was trending. There were comments
like, ‘I don’t like her anymore because
as soon as she turns 18 she’s a w****.’
Like, dude. I can’t win.”
Billie even revealed the unfortunate reason
why she wears such baggy outfits, saying,
“Nobody can have an opinion on my body because
they haven’t seen what’s underneath. Nobody
can be like, ‘she’s slim-thick,’ ‘she’s
not slim-thick,’ ‘she’s got a flat a**,’
‘she’s got a fat a**.’ No one can say
any of that because they don’t know.”
Billie has since admitted to learning to appreciate
her body, but being sexualized is something
that may never go away.
During one of her final concerts in Miami
before postponing her shows, Billie stunned
the audience when she shared a three-and-a-half
minute short film about body shaming and being
sexualized by “fans.”
Billie was praised for her powerful protest,
so just think if Billie and Gaga were to join
forces, they’d be pretty unstoppable!
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