Billie Eilish reveals battle when writing tune, ‘Getting Older’

Billie Eilish has opened up in regards to the battle she skilled when writing tune ‘Getting Older’.

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The tune, which is taken from Eilish’s upcoming new album, ‘Happier Than Ever’, hints at earlier trauma.

“I’ve had some trauma / Did issues I didn’t wanna / Was too afraid to inform ya / However now I feel it’s time,” Eilish sings on the final line of the tune.

Chatting with the LA Times, Eilish stated she was conflicted in regards to the tune saying she wished her followers to “know every part about my life one way or the other” however that she wasn’t capable of discuss in regards to the tune’s which means any additional.

Eilish stated: “I’ve skilled some stuff that I’ve by no means spoken about, and I don’t wish to in any respect…I don’t wish to f—ing discuss it.

“I don’t wish to inform anybody, not to mention the whole web. It’s embarrassing to undergo stuff like that. It’s why loads of men and women — however particularly ladies — don’t inform anybody once they’re going by way of it.”

She continued: “However on the identical time…regardless that I haven’t actually completed something for [the #MeToo movement], it’s actually vital that younger ladies know that it may well occur to anybody. Simply being taken benefit of.”

Earlier this 12 months, an intimate documentary about Eilish was launched on Apple TV+. In its five-star evaluate, NME known as Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry a “searingly sincere documentary affords a warts-and-all have a look at life as a younger megastar.”