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Billie Eilish on connection to old songs and fan devotion: 'It feels like I’m looking in a mirror'
5/7/2026, 11:08:59 PM
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Billie Eilish on connection to old songs and fan devotion: 'It feels like I'm looking in a mirror'
You're the best, Billy.
>> Billy, turn this way. Billy, turn this way for us.
>> Hello, I'm Liam. How you doing? Nice to meet you. I saw this yesterday and I loved it.
>> Thank you.
>> And it got me thinking a lot of things. One being some of these songs you have been singing for such a long time.
>> I know, right?
>> Right. But, you know, your emotional connection to those songs changes and evolves as things do over the years. So, I'm curious, when you sing them all these years later, do you consciously or maybe unconsciously perform them different depending on how you feel about them? If that makes sense.
>> That's a really good question.
Probably. I think subconsciously, yeah.
But honestly, what's pretty amazing about it that like you maybe wouldn't expect like I wouldn't expect it exside from knowing that it's true. um that like performing songs that are old or I don't like or whatever it is like they completely change over time and somehow performing them live like gives them this new life that like I don't I I didn't have before and somehow like even songs that like are super old and I'm tired of it. It's like like you said, I kind of performed them differently and have a new relationship with them. So they almost morph into new songs in a way
>> which is kind of nice.
>> And also like I recorded them when I was like you know 14. So like my voice is just different and it's like it feels like a different song to sing you know.
>> Yeah.
>> There are some beautiful moments in this film with the fans and one of the most touching scenes is when they're going to the fans and the fans are explaining what the music means to them. Some people saying it changed their life, others saying it even saved their lives.
How do you when you hear things like that, not let it go in one ear, out the other? How do you make sure that sits with you? Because it's quite it's big. It's it's heavy.
>> It's huge. It's huge. Well, I think I it's really hard to take in and like believe, you know, it's hard to not think of it as not you, you know? But I think that the truth is that I feel that way about things that I love and the music that I grew up loving and the artists that I grew up loving. That's exactly how I feel. So I don't hear them and think like whoa, like I can't relate to that. Like I I relate to it more than anything. So you know when I hear that I'm like it just like it if it feels like I'm looking in a mirror, you know? I'm like it just like hits me right in the gut. It's amazing.
What's that?
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