♪ I'm in the second-hand smoke ♪
♪ Still just drinking- ♪
I'm Billie Eilish from Los Angeles.
♪ I don't need a Xanny to feel- ♪
(laughs)
Literally that's all.
(cheering)
♪ Music made it transform ♪
All we did was listen to music
when I was younger growing up.
It's all we did.
I listen to a lot of The Beatles
and Avril Lavigne.
You know, I had all my phases.
I have Green Day and My Chemical Romance,
The Strokes and The Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Then it was like Tyler and Marina and the Diamonds,
and Lana Del Rey and everything.
♪ We're late to every party ♪
♪ And nobody's ever sorry ♪
I think if you listen to my music and what I create
and what me and my brother create together.
There's so much Beatles inspiration in there.
If you really listen for it.
Just 'cause their lyrics and
their harmonies just unbelievable.
Just like so nice to your ears.
They just feel good to listen to.
Growing up, I was in a choir, so there was always
a lot of harmonies around me.
I kind of got a good idea of what is gonna sound right,
or whatever.
♪ I just wanna make you feel okay ♪
Last year I was touring and
a very large thing that I learned was just
what is fun to do live and what gets the best reaction.
Just the most fun for me and the most fun for the crowd.
Me and my brother kind of just honed in on that.
We're like let's make an album that's going to
be really fun to tour and to dance around to.
To have people mosh to and jump around,
and get injured in the pit.
(laughs)
♪ When all you do is- ♪
Going into writing, I think its always different.
It varies, which I think keeps us from
writing the same song over and over again.
I want to change it up and I feel like
especially with this album,
every single song is different from every song in the album.
My vocal delivery, the production, the key.
Just like any little detail, just to differentiate it.
♪ Tore my shirt to stop you bleedin' ♪
♪ But nothing ever stops you leavin' ♪
- I like to write in characters a lot.
Especially me and brother, sometimes we'll just
sit down and be like, let's think about someone
and then think what their seeing.
What are they thinking?
What are they thinking about doing?
I don't know, I feel like its just really opened
my eyes especially to certain-
I mean I've done with people I know.
I've done it with people I've hurt.
I've done it with...people that don't exist.
It's a fantasy world and I feel like
the cool part about music is
that you can tell the truth.
100 percent, nothing but the truth.
Or you can completely lie.
♪ I could lie, say, "I like it like that, ♪
♪ like it like that" ♪
♪ But nothing is better sometimes ♪
I like the idea that my biggest supporter
could not like one of my songs
because its different, but that means
that there's somebody else
who hates everything I've ever put out.
And I put out this one song and their like "Oh."
I'm not doing it for the people that don't like it.
I'm doing it for the people that like it.
I'm just doing it for everyone.
The goal is just sound...I just don't want to sound
predictable ever, you know?
♪ I could lie, say, "I like it like that, like it like that" ♪
(cheering)