Monday night on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, singer Billie Eilish explained a few things. For one, she's "not an elf," although she's giving no explanation about why she held her interview from a trailer while on set for an Amazon Prime Day project. Also, yes she wore a wig the last time she was on the show. We'll get to that in a bit.
Most importantly Eilish spoke about her feelings on the instant and massive reaction to her social media posts, specifically the shots from her recent Vogue cover shoot. As exciting as it may be to break Instagram like-records, Billie says "it more just makes me never want to post again."
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"I feel like I wanted to post more when less people cared," Billie explained, "and now that more people care it's, like, scary to me. But, I mean, it's amazing." Colbert pointed out that Billie had broke her own record for a million likes in less than six minutes on Instagram upon posting the Vogue photos, a feat that was quickly topped, by herself she admits, when she posted a follow up. "It's been crazy," she says. "It's been a very weird, surreal week."
Billie also just released her brand new photo book, titled BILLIE EILISH, and it's available to purchase on her website now. Addressing her choice to release these photos in physical rather than digital form, she told Colbert that she saw it as a "more powerful, more personal" way of telling her story.
"I just feel as a fan I would have and would now love something like that of an artist that I'm a fan of. It starts from literally my birth, before I was born, up until when we started making it," Billie explained. "I've always loved pictures, I take so many pictures a day I never have enough storage. I record everything, I film everything... I take everybody's picture, I do it all the time, and I always have since I was a kid."
Obviously a passion project that any fan should consider picking up, Bille continued, admitting "I love pictures, and I love looking through pictures -- if they're mine, or my friend's, or whoever's -- I just thought it would be really cute to make a whole lifelong story through pictures. Because my life is kind of crazy and it's cool to have a little memory of it."
Billie and her brother FINNEAS closed out the visit with a powerful performance of her new, Happier Than Ever single, "Your Power," which you can watch above. The new album, which she's admittedly "cocky about" as it's her "favorite thing" that she's ever created, will be available on July 30.
This first single, Billie says, "is my favorite song that I've ever written. There's something about it that I just... I mean, I really feel very cocky about it, I'm sorry. I think that there's just times in life where you should just be allowed to feel cocky about something. I just am very proud of myself with this song I guess, and I feel that I can never top it a little bit."
Now back to that wig she wore the last time she spoke with Stephen. At the time she was going through a drastic hair transformation -- from deep black to blonde -- and simply felt like not looking like a crazy person while completing the process. So she ordered a Billie Eilish costume wig. It was plastic and awful, as she explains, so she opted for a more professional one as she rode out the dying process. It's likely the same wig we saw her wearing at the GRAMMYs.
"I knew that it would have these processing periods," she says, "where it would look insane, and I didn't want to look insane. But I needed something quick, so I literally ordered a Billie Eilish Halloween costume wig on Amazon. I wasn't trying to play a prank on the Internet... No, I just looked f***ing crazy underneath and I needed to look not crazy." Check out the full interview and performance above.
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