Billie is exactly where she means to be without prejudice. “She is a continuously evolving artist with a new vision and interpretation of herself in terms of femininity.

“Billie represents something completely new,” says Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele, who has regularly collaborated with Eilish. More lastingly, her mysterious, broken sound rewired pop. Her debut is Spotify’s eighth most-streamed album ever. Eilish’s career is a parade of achievements, mostly concerning her age: she’s the youngest winner of the Grammy for Album of the Year (an accolade formerly held by Taylor Swift) and to helm a Bond theme (“No Time To Die”, written for Daniel Craig’s final 007 gig), and is the first artist born in the 21st century to have an American number one. She and Finneas recorded her debut album there, 2019’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, without label interference. The colourful family bungalow in north-east LA, where they were homeschooled by their parents, working actors Maggie May Baird and Patrick O’Connell, turned into an anchor and a hive of “good people” as this gothy teenager became an era-redefining pop star.

We’ve watched her get here, ever since her viral breakout at 13 with the delicate synth-pop song “Ocean Eyes”, recorded with her older brother, Finneas O’Connell, in their bedrooms.

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