Billie Eilish has admitted it’s “annoying” to be described as the new face of pop music.
“As grateful as I am for the appreciation and the love, honestly, I’ve become numb to it,” the 17-year-old told Vogue Australia. “I remember the first couple of times people called me the face of pop or pop’s new It girl or whatever the f**k … it kind of irked me.
“The weird thing about humans is we [think we] have to label everything, but we don’t.”
Eilish also opened up about those in the music industry who are hellbent on exploiting her fame – she compares them to ants trying to get at food on the other side of a fence.
“It’s up to you to keep the fence there,” she said. “If you just lifted it up, all the ants are going to go eat the food. That’s what the industry is like. Everyone is ready to tell you what to do. Everyone is ready to be, like: ‘You’re my creation.’ It’s weird that the hard thing to do is do what you want to, because everyone wants to make a product.”
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One thing Eilish controls is her look. She told Vogue Australia that clothes are ‘the first thing that matters in every day of my life.”
The singer explained: "Everywhere I go, everything I do. Everything. It’s the first thing that I think about that I barely even think about it. It’s my whole identity. My whole personality is based off my clothes and what I’m wearing that day. I’ll have a different personality for a different outfit sometimes.
“If I’m wearing something I don’t feel comfortable in I will turn into a totally different persona that I hate.”