Billie Eilish connected Coming Out: “Wasn’t It Obvious”
Billie Eilish continues to bash what she wants erstwhile she's wanting to.
And recently, for the "Bad Guy" singer, that's meant getting candid astir her sexuality. After she played a snippet of her upcoming opus "Lunch"—which was afloat of sexually explicit lyrics—during her Coachella DJ set, Billie opened up astir the inspiration down the track.
"I wrote immoderate of it earlier adjacent doing thing with a girl, and past wrote the remainder after," she explained successful a Rolling Stone profile published April 24. "I've been successful emotion with girls for my full life, but I conscionable didn't understand—until, past year, I realized I wanted my look successful a vagina."
The revealed lyrics of the way hint astatine the taxable for Billie's forthcoming album, Hit Me Hard and Soft, which she says volition instrumentality to the dependable of 2019's When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
"So present she's coming up the stairs / So I'm pulling up a seat / And I'm putting up my hair," Billie sings successful the teased lyrics. "I could devour that miss for luncheon / And she dances connected my lingua / Tastes similar she mightiness beryllium the one."
And the Swarm actress, who expressed feeling outed during a Variety reddish carpet interrogation successful December, aboriginal elaborate her absorption to speculation implicit her sexuality.
"I was ne'er readying connected talking astir my sexuality ever, successful a cardinal years," she added. "It's truly frustrating to maine that it came up."
However, Billie noted that she whitethorn person overreacted by putting the work connected blast successful a Dec. 3 Instagram caption, wherever she wrote, "thanks assortment for my grant and for besides outing maine connected a reddish carpet astatine 11 americium alternatively of talking astir thing other that matters."
As she aboriginal enactment it to Rolling Stone, "Who f--king cares?"
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Still, the two-time Oscar winner besides intimated that she felt enactment connected the spot erstwhile the reddish carpet analogous asked if she "meant" to travel retired during a November Variety roundtable discussion—prompting the "What Was I Made For?" vocalist to reply, "Wasn't it obvious?"
"I went into Billie Eilish interrogation mode," the 22-year-old recalled thinking, "‘Oh, I don't care. Yeah, I'll accidental whatever. Wasn't it obvious?' And past afterwards I was like, ‘Wait. It wasn't evident to me.'"
And portion Billie doesn't privation her sexual preferences to beryllium a taxable of treatment anymore, she doesn't caput getting existent connected however enactment empowers her.
Read connected for each her NSFW quotes.
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