Billie Eilish Explained Why She Doesn't Like To Refer To Her Listeners As "Fans" And It Makes A Lot Of Sense
You know Billie Eilish.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 13: Billie Eilish attends 2021 Costume Institute Benefit - In America: A Lexicon of Fashion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on September 13, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
During a recent appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show, Drew noted that Billie mentioned in this year's documentary Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry that she doesn't like the word "fans" to refer to her listeners.
“You said something that really struck me in the documentary," Drew said. "You really have this issue with the word 'fans,' and I was wondering where that stems from?”
“I think that the reason that it was so weird to me," she replied, "was because one moment I was a fan, and then suddenly I was looked at as this like higher up suddenly, even when I was 14, and it was so weird because I was like, I am not even anyone."
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 13: Billie Eilish arrives to the 2021 Met Gala Celebrating In America: A Lexicon Of Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on September 13, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by James Devaney/GC Images)
"I just make music, and these kids that I feel like I already know suddenly [are] like, ‘Oh, they are Billie’s fans, and then there is Billie.’"
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 12: Billie Eilish attends the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards at Barclays Center on September 12, 2021 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/MTV VMAs 2021/Getty Images for MTV/ ViacomCBS)
"So that’s why it was so weird to me because I think of them like literally my skin, like part of me, and like how I get through stuff. They always have my back."
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 12: Billie Eilish attends the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards at Barclays Center on September 12, 2021 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
"They are fans just as much as I am a fan," she concluded, "but that doesn’t make them any less than me or anybody else, you know?"
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 30: Billie Eilish attends "Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter To Los Angeles" Worldwide Premiere at The Grove on August 30, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney)
