Sometime during the night of Sept. 4, 2018, Billie Eilish took her own life — in a dream. Eilish, whose full name is Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell, was raised in a two-bedroom, 1,200-square-foot Craftsman bungalow in a modest neighborhood on Los Angeles’s east side. “I love bugging people out,” Eilish told me. “We’ve never written a song that was ‘empowering,.” Eilish told me. I think you can have something that’s not you, but it works.”Who Billie Eilish is and isn’t are categories in flux.

Source: New York Times March 12, 2020 03:28 UTC