my name is belly oh yeah before Billy
Eilish would be a role model for people
all over the world people are like
you're a moult role model like how can
you how can you say that if you're
somebody who's people are looking up to
you Billy like how could you possibly
say something like I'm like do you know
why they're looking up to me because I
say shit like that before Billy Amish
would win five Grammys as well as
numerous other awards and accolades
alongside her brother who is a big part
of the Billy Eilish brand our friendship
and like sibling ship or whatever is is
kind of exactly the same as our
professional relationship we don't
really turn on like a business switch I
feel a great sense of satisfaction when
Billy feels close enough to me to go I
don't like that at all before Billy
Eilish would have over 31 million
subscribers on YouTube with over 6.3
billion views 7.2 million followers on
Instagram and 4.5 million on Twitter one
of my favorite parts about making music
is it people take it in the way that
they take it and I have no control over
that
Billy Eilish has taken the music
industry by storm at just 18 years old
the LA native who still lives in her
childhood home has won numerous awards
including five Grammys two American
Music Awards and plenty of others she's
also been on world tours made Forbes 30
under 30 list and isn't showing signs of
slowing down anytime soon most recently
being praised for her latest track which
is the theme song for the new James Bond
film it appears Billy is here to stay
and truthfully I don't mind with her
lack of enthusiasm for fame and focus on
the craft of the music itself I will say
it's incredibly refreshing to find a
true artist who isn't pumping out music
just to stay popular and for that reason
alone I have no doubt Billy is going to
have an extremely successful career
although one could argue she's already
done more in her short career than
others have in decades
it's absolutely horrendous just like
horrifying what's going on guys welcome
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Bell boom my name is Billy and I'm going
to play a song that I made up with this
the time Billy Eilish pirate Baron
O'Connell was born on December 18th 2001
in Los Angeles California she's the
daughter of Maggie Barrett and Patrick
O'Connell both of whom have history in
the entertainment industry
however Maggie also worked as a
screenwriter producer and teacher while
her husband Patrick has also done his
fair share of work in construction the
two of them are also amateur musicians
after meeting in New York the two decide
to start their family in Los Angeles
where both Billy and her older brother
Phineas would be born Phineas is 4 years
older than Billie and from a young age
the two would seem to work well off of
each other growing up in a Highland Park
billion Phineas would be homeschooled
which led to Maggie teaching the
children the basics of songwriting and
Patrick teaching Billy how to play piano
speak it on the first song she wrote
Billy recalls I quote when I was 4 I
wrote a song about falling into a black
hole the name of that song is fingers
crossed and it was apparently inspired
by her favorite show at the time the
walking dead the song itself is still
available on her soundcloud page and at
the time of this recording has been
played over 5.8 million times when it
comes to musical influences Eilish has
cited a range of genres from Peggy Lee
to Justin Bieber The Beatles Green Day
Avril Lavigne and of course Drake Ruby
introduced you to Green Day took you to
Green Day yo u why do you know that
that's so irrelevant like it's so
irrelevant but it seems there's two
people in particular Eilish feels
incredibly strongly about when it comes
to music Tyler the Creator and Amy
Winehouse who I personally feel at least
the latter her music resembles at times
goblins greatest album ever Frank also
the greatest I can't even I'm done carry
on I've done it with that being said
I'll exclaims the motto from take cares
her favorite song of all time and also
appreciates the sounds of childish
gambino Lana Del Rey as well as spooky
black a rapper who now goes by the name
Corbin from st. Paul Minnesota aside
from her love for music which was
evident from a young age Billie also
grew fond of horses as well as dancing
and photography and just eight years old
she would enroll in the Los Angeles
children's chorus and if you
closely you could see a young Billy
front-row three in from the right
smiling and eagerly awaiting her time to
shine
Billy would also try her hand then
acting from a young age but it's clear
she didn't want to follow in her parents
footsteps in an interview with BBC Billy
recalled going to an audition and I came
back going I hate this I'm not doing
this ever again when asked what exactly
happened Billy said some lame stuff dude
still at nine years old Billy and her
two friends would enter into the 96 hour
Film Festival where they had to write
shoot and edit a short film in just 96
hours other requirements included at the
film be a romance include a specific
line and a crazy dog walker the film
itself is titled in love psych and is
still currently up on YouTube
ah leave me although it was clear the
family had a creative muscle they truly
enjoyed working Billy also found
something about being with horses
incredibly calming professional
horseback rider and a professional
gymnast her family couldn't afford for
her to take riding lessons but Billy was
determined so she got a job working at a
local stable to pay for lessons at just
10 years old she explained I wanted it
so I worked for it and I got it I worked
at the barn for two summers I was a
horse camp counselor I worked at
birthdays but I stopped because I am not
rich and never will be and never was
that is expensive to ride a horse even
anything that has to do with the horse
is expensive after a while nobody was
taking me seriously because when you're
not rich every one of the stables is
like shoo and horses are like one of the
only things that I would say bring me
peace because my life is very not it's
not very peaceful it's a lot of fun and
it's a lot of excitement being a
creative kid with a true love for the
Arts Billy would also spend a lot of her
youth dancing spending up to 11 hours a
week at the local dance studio Billy
loved dancing although she wasn't a fan
of ballet however she still had to learn
how to dance ballet and also has
experience in tap jazz and other genres
at 13 she actually joined a dance
company revolution Dance Center but
doesn't have the fondest memories of her
time there I quote her saying I wasn't
as confident I couldn't speak and just
be normal when I think about it or see
pictures of me then I was so not okay
with who I was I was always worried
about my appearance that was the peak of
my body dysmorphia I couldn't look in
the mirror at all this is in reference
to the really tiny clothes Billy had to
wear a dress rehearsals although in the
clip we're about to show you
Billy appears to be wearing the most
valued clothing of all the girls and
what appears to be a black hoodie she's
on the far left if you couldn't tell
however Billy owes a lot to the dance
studio her and her brother practically
called home for all these years
in fact Billy actually said it best
herself this dance studio really
deserves all the credit for the
beginning of this journey who would
eventually turn into Billy's first viral
hit was actually supposed to just be a
song that was used at the dance studio
in 2015 Billy suffered a growth plate
injury which would unfortunately lead to
her hanging up her dancing shoes however
this would be a blessing in disguise as
Billy would spend more time working on
music with her brother Phineas it's no
secret that the two are close with
really commonly referring to Phineas as
her brother and best friend and this
close-knit relationship has certainly
done wonders for both of their careers
with Phineas producing and writing all
of Billie's music with her however it
wasn't always that way speaking with
variety Billie explained the first songs
that we worked on we didn't write
together he wrote the song called she's
broken and I wrote one called fingers
crossed and we recorded them and put
them out on soundcloud just for fun but
I want to be long before the two would
team up for the song ocean eyes which
would change their lives forever
originally written for Phineas his band
at the time Billy's older brother felt
it would sound best in her voice and
just so happened a few days prior to
Phineas approaching Billy with a song
Fred Diaz Billy's old dance teacher
asked her and Phineas to make a song for
him to teach a choreographed dance to
it's almost as if the stars align
perfectly after Phineas taught Billie
the song they put it together and
uploaded it on their soundcloud for
their dance teacher to download in a
20-17 interview with Teen Vogue Billie
explained we put it on SoundCloud with a
free download link next to it so my
dance teacher could access it we had no
intentions for it really
but basically overnight a ton of people
started hearing it and sharing it Hildy
dilly a music discovery website found it
and posted it and it just got bigger and
bigger it was really sexy
then Daniel Caston who is now my manager
reached out to my brother and was like
dude this is going to get huge and I
think you're going to need help along
the way I want to help you guys we were
like that swag indeed on November 18th
2015
Oshin eyes would be uploaded to
SoundCloud and at the time of this
recording it's been played over 40
million times the virality of ocean eyes
would lead to Eilish signing with Apple
music owned platoon and when she signed
an artist development deal which would
be negotiated by her brother this would
be to polish Eilish before she got her
big record deal and eventually led to
her getting a publicist as well as a
stylist who worked together in building
the brand of Billie in August of 2016
Billie signed with a management company
darkroom an imprint of Interscope
Records and released a video of herself
dancing to the song ocean eyes which was
also re-released through Interscope I
was 13 when ocean eyes came out the way
I talked was different my style was
different
was different as we know Billy has gone
on to release a good amount of music and
is setting herself up for a very
successful future in August 2017 she
released her debut EP don't smile at me
but was released in singles from it
every Friday in July the EP included
tracks such as ocean eyes bellyache
copycat and I don't want to be you
anymore the EP wouldn't debut too high
in the Billboard 200 charts initially
coming in at 185 but in July of 2018 it
reached 38 and to no surprise it would
surpass the top twenty mark peaking at
fourteen in July of 2019 let's not
forget guys this EP debuted back in 2017
and speaking of 2017 this is the year
Eilish would team up with Spotify to
push her new music before Apple music
really pushed her into stardom in
September of 2017 building was named
Apple music up next artists leading her
to get an interview with Zane Lowe on
beats 1 radio a live session EP and a
short documentary after releasing the
live EP up next session Billy Eilish she
would go on to collaborate with the
likes of Vince staples Khalid and slowly
but surely become one of the music
industry's biggest names after dropping
her debut album when we fall asleep
where do we go in 2019 which would debut
at top of the Billboard 200 charts and
secure three of her five Grammys Eilish
has continued to dominate the industry
most recently dropping the theme song
for the new James Bond film no time to
die
of course Billy has also been on a few
world tours has already secured the top
spot on the Billboard charts with her
smash hit bad guy recently snagged her
first number-one in the UK with no time
to die and in 2019 at just 17 years old
was named to Forbes 30 under 30 list but
this is before they're famous and I
think it's quite clear after ocean eyes
went viral while the rest is history
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