Billie Eilish on controlling her narrative with saggy garments: “It didn’t actually work”
Billie Eilish has spoken about attempting to regulate the narrative round her by sporting saggy garments, saying it “didn’t actually work”.
The pop star is understood for sporting saggy outfits on stage and in public appearances and, in a marketing campaign for Calvin Klein in 2019, revealed she did so to cease folks from having opinions on her physique.
In a brand new interview for Vogue Australia, Eilish stated the tactic hadn’t labored. “It’s a ton of labor to attempt to management the picture and you’ll solely do it a lot, as a result of individuals are gonna suppose no matter they suppose,” she stated. “However it has been so vitally necessary to have the picture that I need, and attempt to be seen how I need to be seen.”
She added: “In fact, it didn’t actually work. It’s actually arduous to regulate the narrative ready like mine, proper? You may’t actually management it that a lot, however you possibly can strive.”
The star just lately spoke out concerning the response to her British Vogue cowl, wherein she ditched the outsized garments to pose in a spread of lingerie. “I noticed an image of me on the quilt of Vogue [from] a few years in the past with huge, enormous oversize garments [next to the new Vogue cover]. Then the caption was like, ‘That’s referred to as development’,” she stated.
“I perceive the place they’re coming from, however on the similar time, I’m like, ‘No, that’s not OK. I’m not this now, and I didn’t must develop from that’.”
Eilish will launch her second album ‘Happier Than Ever’ on July 30 and launched the newest monitor from it within the type of ‘NDA’ earlier this month (July 9). The singer shared a stay model of the monitor yesterday (July 16).
Talking about ‘Happier Than Ever’ in a latest interview, the star stated it’s “a lot better” than her debut ‘When We All Fall Asleep, The place Do We Go?’,