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  • - [Crew Member] Time capsule, one one.

  • - Let's do this shit.

  • Year three.

  • Ya'll been asking for it, so here we are.

  • My name is Billie Eilish.

  • Billie Eilish.

  • My name is Billie Eilish.

  • I think it's October 18th, 2017.

  • Its October 18th, 2018.

  • October 18th, 2019.

  • I'm 15.

  • I'm 16.

  • I'm 17.

  • I have 257,000.

  • I have 6.3 million.

  • 40.7 million.

  • That's great.

  • That's so...

  • Can you, wow, that's crazy.

  • 1.13 million.

  • 9.6 million.

  • 152 million Google searches of me.

  • Bing?

  • Who the fuck uses Bing?

  • [laughing]

  • It's a picture of me and Charlie XCX.

  • Isn't it the one about me smiling?

  • That's a lot.

  • 10 million.

  • That's my face.

  • No, that makes me feel good though,

  • because sometimes the most liked picture's like,

  • you with like, another celebrity or you with somebody else,

  • but that's just me.

  • That's shit's hard, come on.

  • I'd say probably Khalid, which is weird because he's like,

  • just a homie of mine.

  • Oh, Hailey Bieber, Justin Bieber, Young Thug, Avril Levigne

  • Ariana Grande, Kid Cudi, Ty Dolla Sign, oh, Teyana Taylor.

  • God, there's so many.

  • But like Drake, come on.

  • Drake?

  • Drake is like, the nicest dude I've ever spoken to.

  • I mean, I've only like, texted him, but he's so nice.

  • Like, he does not need to be nice, you know what I mean?

  • He's at a level in his life where

  • he doesn't need to be nice, but he is, you know?

  • Being Apple's Up Next Artist.

  • Jeez.

  • Jeez!

  • I did Ellen last week, Jimmy Fallon, so many festivals.

  • I met Takashi Murakami.

  • I went to his studio.

  • Dave Grohl's daughter did a cover of my song.

  • He played guitar for her at a talent show, I think.

  • There's been a lot of shit that's happened in the last year.

  • Ugh, my skin was so bad.

  • Jesus.

  • Look, I'm glowing now.

  • Yes!

  • My skin got better.

  • I was the season opener for SNL.

  • I just sold out a headlining arena tour.

  • Did Howard Stern, Rolling Stone cover, Elle cover,

  • V cover, Billboard cover, released the album,

  • had a number one single, had a number two single

  • for like 16 weeks straight or some shit, right.

  • Biggest selling album of the year.

  • I have Drake's phone number.

  • [laughing]

  • The people that support me, my fans,

  • which I don't like to call fans,

  • my, you know, my family, you know.

  • God, I was so annoying then.

  • Finishing this album and doing the most crazy shows

  • I'm capable of doing in the next month.

  • I finished that album, thank the Lords above

  • because I was about to jump off a building

  • to finish that fucking album.

  • Oh, my God.

  • Exhausting.

  • Thank God I finished that shit.

  • I can't.

  • Honestly, sometimes I think about it.

  • Sometimes I'm like, like me and Finneas

  • have had conversations where we're like,

  • can you believe we actually finished the album?

  • I swear to God, we thought we would never finish that shit.

  • Ever.

  • I love that album.

  • Probably like a fucking 10, dude.

  • I love it.

  • Fuck it.

  • Oh wait, it's great, sorry, A.

  • I never went to school, I never got grades.

  • Sorry.

  • A plus is what I meant.

  • The most important thing right now, though,

  • probably would be maintaining my happiness,

  • which I've been experiencing for like, the first time

  • in many years lately, which is really cool.

  • And not that my fans aren't like,

  • also the other most important thing in the world.

  • And doing shows is also really important to me

  • and doing crazy shows especially, but I want to stay happy.

  • That's a big goal for me.

  • I don't know if I'm more confident,

  • I just think I know what I'm doing more.

  • I think I'm less confident, actually.

  • True. I was less confident, for sure.

  • I was definitely not as confident last year

  • as I was before that, but I am for sure a billion times

  • more confident than both of those years.

  • I feel like I'm probably the most confident

  • I've ever been in my life.

  • I guess.

  • I don't know how the fuck, I don't know how it happened,

  • but I guess I am.

  • I am definitely successful.

  • I was thinking about that like, earlier today.

  • Because of this interview, I was like.

  • Back then I thought it was like,

  • the biggest I was ever gonna be and I thought, you know,

  • it was the most I was ever gonna be recognized

  • and it was the most anyone's gonna know me

  • and it was the most money that I would have,

  • the most clothes I'd have, the most shoes that I'd have.

  • And what's crazy, it wasn't.

  • Success is not how well people know you.

  • It's how you're like, looked at.

  • I genuinely did not think people would care.

  • I like, can't even stress it enough.

  • I can't believe people care so much about me.

  • It's crazy to me.

  • I might be safe if I go to Trader Joe's.

  • Nope!

  • Not safe.

  • I tried it.

  • I went to Trader Joe's.

  • Did not work.

  • Nope, did not work.

  • Tried it!

  • I also tried Costco, which I thought I'd be safe at

  • and that didn't work.

  • Fuck's sake.

  • The reason it was like, affecting me so much last year

  • was because all I wanted to do was go out.

  • I don't even think about going out anymore.

  • I like this life that I have.

  • I like being famous.

  • It's very weird, but it's very cool.

  • And I can, I feel like I can say that now

  • because I used to hate it.

  • I hated doing press and I hated being recognized

  • and I hated kind of everything that had to do with it.

  • There's a lot in fame that's fucking gross

  • and horrible and just miserable,

  • but I'm very grateful for it and it's really rare

  • and it's really, I'm very lucky,

  • so I'm so done with complaining about it.

  • I complained about it for so long.

  • Probably that stupid Cheeto head man.

  • November 6th, there's an election soon.

  • I really hope everyone votes so the world doesn't end.

  • There's an impeachment going on.

  • Honestly, the news is so bad, I can't even.

  • Oh yeah, Beyonce had some twins and she still looks fly.

  • Kehlani's pregnant.

  • Greta Thunberg, honestly.

  • She's been fucking kicking people's ass.

  • Esketit.

  • That can die, okay.

  • Esketit is supposed to be like, let's get it

  • but like, esketit is so annoying.

  • Stop.

  • Oh, that's stupid Snapchat filter that's like,

  • [making filter tone].

  • I'm kinda over the whole like, Juuling shit.

  • That shit is so ugly.

  • Like, smoking looks cooler than Juuling.

  • Don't, like don't smoke but you know, like.

  • [laughing]

  • People think I'm pregnant.

  • A lot of people thought I was pregnant for a second.

  • They did think I was pregnant.

  • There was like, a story on Snapchat the other day.

  • I was like, wait, did Billie Eilish have a baby?

  • It's like, what?

  • Biggest rumor though now, that I sold my soul to Satan.

  • No, I don't have a boyfriend.

  • I can't, I could not have a boyfriend.

  • That would just be mean to him.

  • I don't know, I almost had one for like, a little,

  • but it wasn't really exclusive,

  • so I don't know what you call that.

  • I hate things that are exclusive.

  • Never.

  • That's so funny.

  • I don't have a boyfriend, ha, ha, ha!

  • I actually did then, but I don't now.

  • I still am on good terms with everybody.

  • And I still have so much love for like,

  • the person that I was with then and,

  • but I am single and I'd rather turn eight-tingle.

  • [laughing]

  • For the first time in my life I don't feel the need

  • to be with anyone.

  • For the first time in my life.

  • I don't have my eyes on anyone, I'm not in the mood,

  • I don't have enough stamina for it right now

  • and I'm totally fine with that.

  • So who knows.

  • I'm open to it.

  • I think the month of May, probably mid-May,

  • I was in a horrible place mentally.

  • So.

  • When a friend of mine died in June, it was pretty bad.

  • In January, I had a meeting showing me the schedule

  • for the whole year and I sat there and was totally silent

  • and totally still and just tears like,

  • just streamed down my face.

  • I went to my garage and I just cried.

  • It just was very overwhelming

  • and I was in a really bad place.

  • So.

  • I don't want to take it for granted.

  • I don't want to take it for granted.

  • I catch myself.

  • True.

  • Even some things I've said today, I catch myself.

  • What am I doing?

  • What am I saying?

  • What? 40,000 people?

  • What?

  • Are you ever conscious that you're doing something

  • that you don't want to be doing but you just,

  • you're just doing it?

  • It was like that because I was taking it for granted

  • and I, that makes me really mad and I don't want to be

  • and I just was.

  • I don't know, I worked really hard on not doing that

  • as I said in that, and I've kind of

  • held my ground a little bit.

  • I think I've like, kind of accomplished

  • not taking it for granted.

  • I've been really grateful for everything

  • and really aware lately and I just was realizing

  • that I was giving too much of myself to other people's lives

  • and to other people's situations and I was like,

  • you know what, I need this attention on me right now.

  • So yeah.

  • Fruitvale Station.

  • Fruitvale Station.

  • Fruitvale Station.

  • The storyline is so heartbreaking, dude.

  • That shit grabs you and pulls you and, ugh.

  • No, this, I can't afford a real chain.

  • They are real.

  • My chains were gifts.

  • I did not buy anything that I'm wearing.

  • I stopped wearing real jewelry, like real diamonds and stuff

  • because A, I'm a break that shit.

  • B, I'm a lose that shit.

  • C, I got other shit to buy.

  • You know what I mean?

  • I like bright green a lot.

  • I like black.

  • It's been pretty dark lately,

  • so I've just wanted to be dark with it.

  • Black is like the only time I can go

  • through the airport and be fine.

  • That's cool.

  • Because the airport is normally like,

  • basically being at a meet and greet,

  • but if I'm wearing a black beanie and a black shirt

  • and some black pants and black shoes, I'm pretty good.

  • Kind of like them all.

  • Like, I'm not opposed to anything.

  • Anything.

  • Nah.

  • Yep. Yeah.

  • I feel that there is pressure on me,

  • but I don't feel the pressure.

  • You know what I mean?

  • I feel it less now that it's bigger, in a way.

  • It's like performing in front of 80,000 people

  • is way easier than performing in front of eight people.

  • I don't know why.

  • I kind of would say that the no respect element

  • of the getting recognized.

  • I want a hug.

  • I want to talk to somebody and hear how their day went.

  • I don't want a camera shoved in my face.

  • Mm-hmm.

  • It's gotten much worse since then.

  • Excitement makes you be kind of stupid sometimes.

  • I did this show last week where I went down

  • into the crowd and I just did this to all the hands

  • and somebody grabbed my hand and yanked me so hard.

  • And I had two security guards, two of my security guards

  • with my hand in one hand and, or my arm in one hand

  • and their arm in one hand literally going like this

  • to try to pull me away and it took a minute to do it.

  • I'm like, bending over and I was also

  • singing Ocean Eyes at the same time.

  • I was like, like, and I, and then when they finally let go,

  • I like fell on top of this fucking thing

  • and then somebody stole my ring.

  • Somebody grabbed my hand and pulled my ring off,

  • stole it, whatever.

  • I expect that.

  • And then I leaned back into this one area of all these fans

  • and this one girl just went to me.

  • And I, at first I was like, she probably didn't mean to

  • because she kinda went like this.

  • They're only trying to be loving and sometimes

  • it just comes off wrong.

  • That's it.

  • Don't post everything you think.

  • I should give it to myself then too.

  • [laughing]

  • But I do it now, I don't anymore, yay.

  • That's what I was just saying.

  • Sometimes it's better to just shut the fuck up.

  • I would tell 16-year-old me to remember

  • who her best friends are and remember who the people

  • that care about her the most are and not throw them away

  • for somebody else or for something else.

  • I really hope that I'm not an asshole

  • because I'm really afraid that I will be

  • and I really don't want to be.

  • You better not be an asshole or I'll whip your ass.

  • I don't know if I'm an asshole.

  • Am I?

  • Gosh, she's, God.

  • See, I didn't, oh my God.

  • I was so bubbly and why?

  • What was funny is I wasn't actually in real life.

  • I just was new to interviews and I thought I had to be

  • all like bubbly and cute in interviews.

  • When I watched that when the other one came out last year,

  • I was like, I like didn't know I could swear.

  • I was saying like frickin'.

  • What the heck?

  • What the heck?

  • Laryngitis as heck.

  • Tiring as heck.

  • Am I an asshole?

  • I don't think I'm an asshole.

  • Maybe, I don't know.

  • I performed for a bunch of Jared Leto's friends

  • and Jared Leto in his house.

  • I performed for Leonardo DiCaprio in Jared's big,

  • huge living room.

  • Bieber watched my Coachella set.

  • That's crazy.

  • Mel C, Sporty Spice came to my show.

  • Avril Lavigne came to my show.

  • Thom Yorke came to my show.

  • Dave Grohl is coming to my show.

  • Billie Joe Armstrong came to my show.

  • Julia Roberts is coming to my show.

  • Leonardo DiCaprio watched my SNL show by a backstage.

  • I don't even know why he was there.

  • Chris Rock.

  • Well, I didn't know for those last couple

  • that they were even there.

  • Bieber, I was thinking about that the whole time.

  • Bieber and Hailey were both watching me and I,

  • luckily I didn't see them because if I had seen them I

  • would've lost my shit.

  • Whoa.

  • Little Wayne.

  • Oh, and perform with Little Wayne?

  • That's a great answer.

  • Myself.

  • I'm tired of other people.

  • Doing shows with other people is really stressful.

  • Brockhampton.

  • Tierra Whack is sick.

  • My favorite artist is Tekno.

  • There isn't one song that I don't like that he puts out.

  • Every single song that that man puts out, I love.

  • Shouldn't that count as your favorite artist,

  • is that artist that puts out music that you only like?

  • You know what I mean?

  • Having the approach that no one's had,

  • trying to write something no one's written.

  • So stupid.

  • I remember that.

  • Try to write something no one's ever heard?

  • God, what an idiot.

  • See, that's why I'm still bad at it

  • because that's what I was trying to do.

  • Fuck!

  • [laughing]

  • It's true.

  • That's so funny.

  • Yup. She's right.

  • Yeah, I still, I'm bad at it.

  • Honestly, I don't know because I kind of

  • have no idea what to expect.

  • Like, I thought I knew like, last year.

  • I thought I knew what the, what people would like

  • for my album and I thought I knew like,

  • what would be popular and I was so wrong.

  • Bad Guy is like, the biggest fucking thing ever now,

  • which is so weird.

  • I did not think anyone would like that one.

  • So I have no clue.

  • I almost have a feeling that the one that I would say

  • is my favorite like, one right now,

  • people might not even like it, so I have no idea.

  • The music industry, man.

  • We're all sad as hell.

  • All these artists, we're sad as shit, dude.

  • Everybody I know that's an artist,

  • we are sad mother fuckers.

  • So annoying.

  • Somebody got that tattooed.

  • That quote tattooed!

  • I don't think it's fair to say that we're all sad

  • because I don't think that's true.

  • I was just 16 and friends with a bunch of other, you know,

  • young people that were kind of going through the same stuff,

  • like having this crazy spotlight on them

  • and they were fucking sad too.

  • And that's why I think I thought that, but I hadn't,

  • I didn't, I hadn't experienced it.

  • I think it's a beautiful thing to get to do.

  • I think it's really difficult and I think

  • that's what people don't realize

  • and that's why I wanted to say that then.

  • Yeah, it was terrifying.

  • And it's like, it still is, but I enjoy it and I.

  • I don't know, I enjoy it.

  • Oh, I just want to do everything.

  • I want to create what I want to create

  • when I want to create it.

  • It's gonna change no matter what.

  • Same shit. Whatever I want.

  • I'm not gonna tell myself to do something different

  • next year, I'm gonna just do what I want next year.

  • That's what I'm doing this year.

  • That I dress and look really different than my music,

  • which is true for all the old music I have or like,

  • the stuff I put out like years ago.

  • But you got to remember I was 13 when Ocean Eyes came out

  • and then I was 14 when I wrote like, all the rest,

  • and then I was 15 when I wrote Don't Smile at Me

  • with my brother when we put that out.

  • Now I'm 16 and all year, I've just been making music

  • that's gonna come out when I'm 17.

  • And then when I'm 17, I'll probably be like,

  • yeah, this isn't me now, but it was me when I was 16.

  • And then I'll make music when I'm 17,

  • and then when I'm 18, I'll be like, this isn't me now.

  • [laughing]

  • A genius.

  • Oh my God, hell yeah.

  • Damn. Articulate.

  • She stated it perfectly, dude.

  • She put it better than I could have put it.

  • I mean it, the thing is that the ones that annoy me

  • are the ones that are pretty true.

  • Like, my voice is really soft and it's not belty and shit.

  • And that people think that, oh, I whisper in all my songs.

  • And like, I do in a couple songs, but I feel like

  • people just say that about when they've heard

  • one fucking song.

  • Like, listen to Wish You Were Gay.

  • That bitch a belting.

  • And like, my belt is not even close to a fucking Adele belt.

  • Adele is like a literal God, but it's just different.

  • Like, you don't have to be shouting to be good at singing.

  • My brother is my best friend.

  • My brother is my best friend.

  • My best friend is Finneas, but he is also my brother.

  • Instagram.

  • Probably Instagram.

  • Instagram been hurting my feelings lately.

  • I really see everything, but that's the problem

  • is that I see everything

  • so then I see everything I don't want to see.

  • And you know, it's just this fucking thing in my brain.

  • So lately I don't like looking at it.

  • A fan brought me a notebook filled with huge like,

  • letters from my fans to me, all from different people

  • and it's like tons of pages.

  • It's incredible.

  • People throw a lot of things at me on stage.

  • I've been thrown, you know, bras, avocados.

  • A girl gave me this huge like, stuffed Blohsh that she made

  • with this like, velvet material and I have been

  • sleeping with it for a week now.

  • So embarrassing.

  • I wasn't gonna tell anyone that.

  • [laughing]

  • It's really cozy though.

  • But the other day I was lying in bed thinking like,

  • what if she put a camera in this thing?

  • It's really hard to talk about my life

  • and have it not sound like I'm bragging.

  • [laughing]

  • I said that today, too.

  • My nose is so cute in that.

  • Sorry, I just, look at that nose.

  • Like a little button.

  • Sometimes I'll catch myself in a conversation with someone

  • acting like I'm in an interview, and in interviews

  • you're trained to talk about yourself

  • and not ask the other person about themselves.

  • And so I'll catch myself in conversations where I'm like,

  • shit, like I'm not being interviewed,

  • I'm acting like I'm being interviewed

  • instead of acting like I'm talking to a human being.

  • And I think some artists and celebrities

  • haven't even learned that and still just do that.

  • And people I love do that, that I've met where they just,

  • they're trained to talk like they're in an interview

  • and that's normal but it's like we forget

  • that we're not though.

  • Yeah, the first year I was like,

  • you better know how to drive, right.

  • And didn't I say, oh no, I saw this part recently.

  • It was like, you better know how to drive

  • because I've been putting off drivers ed

  • because that stuff stinks.

  • I hate that stuff. I hate that stuff.

  • Ew! That stuff stinks.

  • Why didn't I say that shit sucks?

  • Like I could've said that fucking sucks!

  • That stuff stinks.

  • Oh my God, it's so cringey, jeez.

  • Hey Billy, a year ago you have your dream car.

  • Can you believe it?

  • No, you can't.

  • But you can though because it's your car now.

  • It was a Dodge Challenger, matte black.

  • Actually, literally two months from today is my birthday.

  • So two months after that day, I got my dream car

  • and I cried for about three hours.

  • You better have a Lamborghini.

  • [laughing]

  • The mom moment typically is...

  • This is my mom.

  • She is sick as a booty.

  • - I don't mind.

  • I can stay here that long.

  • I love you.

  • - I love you, too.

  • - Next year, I hope you're very, very happy

  • and that your happiness you have this year continues

  • and only grows.

  • And you have everything you want in life,

  • and you help change the world for the better.

  • - Mom's definitely gonna help change the world though,

  • more than I am.

  • [crew applauding]

- [Crew Member] Time capsule, one one.

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