Billie Eilish spoke candidly about her sexuality in a brand new interview.
Again in December, she first mentioned her sexual orientation in an interview with Selection, the place she confirmed that she is drawn to ladies. “I’ve by no means actually felt like I may relate to women very effectively,” she stated. “I like them a lot. I like them as folks. I am drawn to them as folks. I am drawn to them for actual.”
Then, shortly after the interview, she appeared on the purple carpet for a Selection occasion and confirmed that she “got here out” within the interview. She additionally expressed her amusement about how folks did not know she was drawn to ladies. “I type of thought, ‘Wasn’t it apparent?'” she stated. “I didn’t understand folks didn’t know. I simply don’t actually imagine in it. I’m identical to, ‘Why can’t we simply exist?’ I’ve been doing this for a very long time, and I simply didn’t speak about it. Whoops.”
This second led to a good greater media frenzy when Billie took to Instagram and accused Number of “outing” her. “Thanks selection for my award and for additionally outing me on a purple carpet at 11 am as an alternative of speaking about the rest that issues,” she wrote.
Now, Billie has extra to say on the subject of her sexuality in a brand new interview with Rolling Stone. Whereas selling her new album that drops on Could 17, Hit Me Laborious and Delicate, she was requested about her music “Lunch,” which options the express lyrics, “I may eat that woman for lunch / Yeah, she dances on my tongue / Tastes like she is perhaps the one / And I can by no means get sufficient / I may purchase her a lot stuff / It is a craving, not a crush.”
“That music was really a part of what helped me turn into who I’m, to be actual,” Billie stated.
“I wrote a few of it earlier than even doing something with a woman after which wrote the remaining after. I have been in love with ladies for my entire life, however I simply did not perceive — till final yr, I spotted I wished my face in a vagina,” she added.
“I used to be by no means planning on speaking about my sexuality ever in one million years. It is actually irritating to me that it got here up,” she stated.
She additionally spoke about her Instagram response to being “outed” again in December and stated, “Who fucking cares? The entire world abruptly determined who I used to be, and I did not get to say something or management any of it. No one needs to be pressured into being one factor or the opposite, and I believe that there is loads of wanting labels everywhere. Dude, I’ve identified folks that do not know their sexuality, or really feel comfy with it, till they’re of their forties, fifties, sixties.”
“It takes some time to seek out your self, and I believe it is actually unfair, the best way that the web bullies you into speaking about who you might be and what you might be,” she stated.
She additionally stated that if she may do the purple carpet interview over, she would not have answered the query. “I am fortunate sufficient to be in a time when I can say one thing like that and issues go OK for me,” she stated. “And that is not how lots of people’s expertise is.”
Learn Billie’s full interview right here.