Billie Eilish says she found it “weird” when people who listened to her previous music described her sound as “depressing”.
The “Bad Guy” singer started making music with her brother Finneas when she was just 13 years old. The siblings have recorded songs such as “She’s Broken” and released them to online audio distribution platform, SoundCloud.
That same year, Billie recorded the hit that made her a world star. “Ocean Eyes” was released in November 2015 as an independent track before being covered and re-released by Darkroom and Interscope Records in November 2016.
The 20-year-old says people’s initial reactions to her music have been interesting.
“It was so weird for me when I first came in and, and the thing everyone said was, like, ‘Billie Eilish’s music is so depressing, and it’s so sad, and it’s ‘is too dark.'” she says in Audible’s new series “Origin,” according to NME.
Billie says her music is “real”.
“I was like, ‘What are you talking about? Have you listened to the Beatles and ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ and ‘Yesterday’, and Lana Del Rey? Like, what the hell are you doing?’ It was so surprising to me that people thought everything I created was dark, I mean, it’s real.
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