Finneas addresses Billie Eilish troll accounts for “posting relentless lies”
Billie Eilish‘s brother and co-writer Finneas has hit out at a joke Twitter account posting pretend information updates about Eilish.
The @BilliesUpdatess account shares fabricated tales in regards to the singer, starting from accusing her of supporting queer-baiting to saying she wished to be poor so she might relate to her followers.
“I nonetheless wish to be broke and poor, it appears actually enjoyable and cute,” one of many made-up quotes posted by the account learn, main her brother to intervene.
In a brand new interview, Billie said that she cried when she obtained wealthy and “wished to be poor so I can relate to most of my followers.” pic.twitter.com/yU8LWSzVoq
— Billie Eilish Updates (@BilliesUpdatess) July 27, 2021
“Are you able to do one thing proper for as soon as and get this account suspended,” one fan wrote to Finneas, to which he responded through quote tweeting.
The producer wrote: “Faux clearly. Truthfully I simply want they’d label this account satire just like the onion or one thing.
“I’ve no drawback with a joke so long as individuals understand it’s a joke.”
Faux clearly. Truthfully I simply want they’d label this account satire just like the onion or one thing. I’ve no drawback with a joke so long as individuals understand it’s a joke https://t.co/0GaH40SblV
— FINNEAS (@finneas) July 27, 2021
Over the weekend, Finneas additionally addressed the account, writing: “Additionally the account BilliesUpdatess is posting relentless lies about billie so should you see that account, report and block Em.”
Final 12 months, Billie Eilish stated she believes she “can’t win” towards Instagram trolls. In an interview with Dazed, Eilish has mentioned a latest expertise she had with trolls on Instagram after posting photographs from her vacation to Hawaii firstly of 2020.
The singer shared a video of her vacation which featured her sporting a bikini, and has spoken of the mass of unfavorable feedback that adopted. “It was trending,” she remembered. “There have been feedback like, ‘I don’t like her anymore as a result of as quickly as she turns 18 she’s a whore’. I can’t win. I can’t win.”
Eilish is about to launch new album ‘Happier Than Ever’ on Friday (June 30), co-written and produced by Finneas.
Finneas, in the meantime, seems in James Blake’s new video for the only ‘Say What You Will’.