Billie Eilish “crushed the internet” from her phone, she said, in part because she was tired of believing the things she read about herself online.
The Bad Guy singer told Conan O’Brien on Thursday (local time) that one of the things she hates about the internet is “how gullible it makes you”.
“Everything I read on the internet, I believe. To me! And I know for a fact that it’s stupid, and I shouldn’t do it because I have evidence that it’s not all true. Almost none of that is true,” said the 21-year-old. alt, who appeared with brother Finneas O’Connell on the comic’s podcast Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend.
“It’s such little things, little white lies, that get over everyone’s heads, but everyone believes.”
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For example, “Little Things” would have a paparazzi shot of her going to the gym, described as “Billie Eilish in Hollywood goes into a studio to work on her new album.”
She also doesn’t like that after growing up with the internet as a preteen and teenager, the internet now contains a little too much of her.
“I’m doing what I’ve always done and I look at the internet because I’m an internet person … and slowly the videos I watch and the things I see on the internet are about me,” she said. “I’m like: Ew! stinky! I do not like that.”
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Billie Eilish “crushed the internet” from her phone, she said, in part because she was tired of believing the things she read about herself online.
Which brings us back to the gullibility thing. Eilish used as an example a video she said surfaced the other day while she was hanging out with her boyfriend, neighborhood frontman Jesse Rutherford.
“It was like, ‘Billie Eilish is a terrible person.’ And then it was a very serious video about why. The person seemed very much in the right headspace and they were saying all these things. I said, ‘Gosh, wow,'” Eilish said. “It’s just such a crazy reality I live in. I’m like, ‘That’s my face. That’s my name. That’s me. Oh, interesting. OK. Alright.'”
And people say certain things online like they’re hearing it from God: “That’s the truth about Billie and you know it for sure. You don’t know it, but you know this is the truth and you have to tell everyone about it and everyone will believe it.”
And she knows people will believe it because she used to believe everything, even after she had proof that everything isn’t true because she was there.
“We don’t yet know what it does,” O’Brien said over the Internet at the beginning of the conversation, “but I can tell you one thing: trying it doesn’t help the creative process.”
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“It’s these little things, little white lies, that get over everyone’s heads, but everyone believes,” said Billie Eilish.
Eilish spoke to The Times about her relationship with the internet back in July 2021 – two weeks after she decided to end the comments on her Instagram account, which at the time had almost 88 million followers (she has 108 million now), no more to read.
She decided at the time to just use the app for posting and running, without looking further at what others were saying.
“Because otherwise I’m going to spiral out, and s…is mean like f…” Eilish said at the time. “There are people, like my brother, who get a text message from someone they don’t like and immediately delete it. He doesn’t even read them.
“I can not do that. If Satan texted me himself, I would say, ‘What did he say?’”
