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  • ♪ I'm in the second-hand smoke

  • Still just drinking- ♪

  • I'm Billie Eilish from Los Angeles.

  • ♪ I don't need a Xanny to feel- ♪

  • (laughs)

  • Literally that's all.

  • (cheering)

  • Music made it transform

  • All we did was listen to music

  • when I was younger growing up.

  • It's all we did.

  • I listen to a lot of The Beatles

  • and Avril Lavigne.

  • You know, I had all my phases.

  • I have Green Day and My Chemical Romance,

  • The Strokes and The Red Hot Chili Peppers.

  • Then it was like Tyler and Marina and the Diamonds,

  • and Lana Del Rey and everything.

  • We're late to every party

  • And nobody's ever sorry

  • I think if you listen to my music and what I create

  • and what me and my brother create together.

  • There's so much Beatles inspiration in there.

  • If you really listen for it.

  • Just 'cause their lyrics and

  • their harmonies just unbelievable.

  • Just like so nice to your ears.

  • They just feel good to listen to.

  • Growing up, I was in a choir, so there was always

  • a lot of harmonies around me.

  • I kind of got a good idea of what is gonna sound right,

  • or whatever.

  • ♪ I just wanna make you feel okay

  • Last year I was touring and

  • a very large thing that I learned was just

  • what is fun to do live and what gets the best reaction.

  • Just the most fun for me and the most fun for the crowd.

  • Me and my brother kind of just honed in on that.

  • We're like let's make an album that's going to

  • be really fun to tour and to dance around to.

  • To have people mosh to and jump around,

  • and get injured in the pit.

  • (laughs)

  • When all you do is- ♪

  • Going into writing, I think its always different.

  • It varies, which I think keeps us from

  • writing the same song over and over again.

  • I want to change it up and I feel like

  • especially with this album,

  • every single song is different from every song in the album.

  • My vocal delivery, the production, the key.

  • Just like any little detail, just to differentiate it.

  • Tore my shirt to stop you bleedin' ♪

  • But nothing ever stops you leavin' ♪

  • - I like to write in characters a lot.

  • Especially me and brother, sometimes we'll just

  • sit down and be like, let's think about someone

  • and then think what their seeing.

  • What are they thinking?

  • What are they thinking about doing?

  • I don't know, I feel like its just really opened

  • my eyes especially to certain-

  • I mean I've done with people I know.

  • I've done it with people I've hurt.

  • I've done it with...people that don't exist.

  • It's a fantasy world and I feel like

  • the cool part about music is

  • that you can tell the truth.

  • 100 percent, nothing but the truth.

  • Or you can completely lie.

  • ♪ I could lie, say, "I like it like that, ♪

  • like it like that" ♪

  • But nothing is better sometimes

  • I like the idea that my biggest supporter

  • could not like one of my songs

  • because its different, but that means

  • that there's somebody else

  • who hates everything I've ever put out.

  • And I put out this one song and their like "Oh."

  • I'm not doing it for the people that don't like it.

  • I'm doing it for the people that like it.

  • I'm just doing it for everyone.

  • The goal is just sound...I just don't want to sound

  • predictable ever, you know?

  • ♪ I could lie, say, "I like it like that, like it like that" ♪

  • (cheering)

♪ I'm in the second-hand smoke

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