184 Fun Facts About Billie Eilish

Which of these is one of Billie Eilish's real middle names?

Pirate was her brother's doing: Finneas, then four, insisted on the name, and it stuck, giving her the full name Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell.

Billie Eilish grew up in which Los Angeles neighbourhood?

Eilish grew up in Highland Park, northeast Los Angeles, where she and Finneas recorded her debut album in his bedroom in the family home.

How were Billie Eilish and her older brother Finneas educated as children?

Homeschooled by their parents, Eilish and Finneas were free to follow whatever interested them, from art and dance to acting; their mother also taught both of them the basics of songwriting.

Eilish has said she was diagnosed with which condition at age 11?

Tourette syndrome was diagnosed when she was 11; she has said the most common reaction to her tics is laughter, because people assume she is trying to be funny, and that it leaves her offended.

What ended Eilish's dance training in 2016?

A growth plate injury ended it: she ruptured the growth plate in her hip in a class with the most advanced dancers and had to quit dance altogether, which turned her towards recording.

Eilish's debut single 'Ocean Eyes', written and produced by her brother Finneas, was released in 2015 on which platform?

SoundCloud got the song in November 2015 with a free download link, so that one person could fetch it; instead it went viral almost overnight and the music industry came calling.

Why did Billie Eilish and Finneas first record 'Ocean Eyes'?

Her dance teacher wanted a song to choreograph a routine to, so the siblings recorded one for him; the track made for a dance class went viral almost overnight.

Justin Lubliner signed Billie Eilish in 2016 to The Darkroom, his imprint at which major label?

Interscope Records houses The Darkroom, where Lubliner spent months planning her debut album's rollout and refused to pick one focus track, letting each new song bring in its own fans.

Eilish's 2017 song 'Bored' appeared on the soundtrack of which Netflix series?

13 Reasons Why used 'Bored' on its first-season soundtrack in March 2017, before her debut EP was out; a year later she was back with a duet written for the show's second season.

What was the title of Eilish's 2017 debut EP?

Don't Smile at Me is named, Eilish said, for the people who tell girls to smile because they look prettier that way; she refused to look like anything except what she is.

Eilish's debut album title asks 'When We All Fall Asleep...' what?

Her 2019 debut album is When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?; Eilish said it was inspired partly by lucid dreaming and night terrors.

Billie Eilish's song 'My Strange Addiction' samples dialogue from which sitcom?

The Office episode 'Threat Level Midnight' supplied the clips, and every cast member heard on the track had to approve them; B. J. Novak said yes, then called the song a banger.

'Bury a Friend' is sung from the perspective of what?

A monster under the bed sings it, and Eilish said anything could be that monster, even someone you love so much that it is taking over your life.

What inspired Eilish to write 'Xanny'?

Friends getting sick from drinking at a party stayed with her: one was throwing up and nobody was fazed, and Eilish said she wondered how that had become normal.

Billie Eilish's debut album opens with the sound of her removing what?

Her Invisalign brace comes out with a slurp on the intro track; Finneas had so many recordings of her removing it before takes that he told her it would be her signature sound.

'Bad Guy' hit number one in the US by ending the record 19-week run of which song?

Old Town Road had ruled for a record 19 weeks when 'Bad Guy' passed it in August 2019; Lil Nas X tweeted his congratulations and told Eilish she deserved it.

Which singer joined Eilish on a remix of 'Bad Guy'?

Justin Bieber was her childhood idol, and the remix's cover is an old photo of a young Eilish happily surrounded by posters of him.

Which R&B singer duetted with Eilish on the 2018 ballad 'Lovely'?

'Lovely', released in April 2018, pairs Eilish with Khalid; it was written for the second season of a Netflix drama and went multi-platinum.

Which award did Finneas win in his own right at the 2020 Grammys?

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical went to Finneas for an album made in a bedroom at home; the label had first tried moving the siblings into a real studio with veteran writers, and Billie hated it.

Which Billie Eilish single is about her brother Finneas always having her back?

Everything I Wanted began with a nightmare in which nobody cared that she was gone; the song became a tribute to Finneas, whose chorus promises that no one can hurt her while he is there.

In 2020 'No Time to Die' made Eilish the youngest artist yet to do what?

Record a 007 title song: she and Finneas had been telling their team for years that they wanted to make one, and had asked to be put forward for the film.

Which film composer provided the orchestration on 'No Time to Die'?

Hans Zimmer had been sent themes by several acts and said he couldn't get past the intro of the others; he chose the siblings' demo as the one, then added its string orchestration.

'No Time to Die' was the third straight 007 theme to win what?

The Academy Award for Best Original Song went to 'No Time to Die' in 2022, after Adele's 'Skyfall' and Sam Smith's 'Writing's on the Wall'; before that run, no Bond theme had ever won it.

'What Was I Made For?' was written for which 2023 film?

Barbie's director Greta Gerwig showed Eilish and Finneas a rough cut of the film; stuck with writer's block until then, they broke it the next day by writing from the doll's point of view.

Before 'What Was I Made For?', which film song last won the Grammy for Song of the Year?

My Heart Will Go On, Celine Dion's Titanic ballad, won Song of the Year in 1999; film songs then went 25 years without the prize, and even 'Lose Yourself' and 'Shallow' lost when they were nominated.

Which Happier Than Ever song has a self-directed video of Eilish and friends at a sleepover?

Lost Cause celebrates being over an ex, so Eilish, directing herself, staged it as a carefree sleepover: Twister, snacks and dancing with a group of friends.

The video for 'Therefore I Am' was shot in an empty version of what?

A shopping mall, the Glendale Galleria just outside Los Angeles, is hers alone in the video: she skips past the shops and helps herself to a doughnut, a pretzel, fries and lemonade.

In March 2021 Eilish set a record for the fastest Instagram post to reach a million likes with a photo of what?

Her new blonde hair drew a million likes in about six minutes, beating a mark set by Selena Gomez; weeks later Eilish broke her own record with a magazine cover.

Eilish's 2021 concert film 'Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles' was filmed where?

The Hollywood Bowl was filmed without an audience because of COVID-19; between songs an animated Eilish drives around Los Angeles, so the film is part concert and part cartoon.

Eilish's 2021 documentary The World's a Little Blurry was released on which streaming service?

Apple TV+ took the film off the market in late 2019, more than a year before anyone could see it, and released it in February 2021 on the same day it reached cinemas.

Eilish wore Oscar de la Renta to the 2021 Met Gala on what condition?

The house stopped using real fur for good at her request; Eilish, who co-chaired the gala, then used her post about the gown to urge every other designer to do the same.

In June 2022 Eilish became the youngest ever solo headliner of which festival?

Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage made her, at 20, its youngest solo headliner to that date; at her debut there in 2019, her soaring popularity had forced a move from the John Peel tent to the bigger Other Stage.

Eilish's third album, Hit Me Hard and Soft, was unusual because she released it without what?

Any advance singles would have put songs out of context, she said: Eilish called the album a family and didn't want 'one little kid in the middle of the room alone'.

The cover of Hit Me Hard and Soft shows Eilish falling through a door frame into what?

Dark blue water is no studio trick: Eilish was photographed beneath the surface by underwater photographer William Drumm, sinking below a door that floats above her.

Which Hit Me Hard and Soft track shares its name with the heroine of Spirited Away?

Chihiro is the girl at the centre of Studio Ghibli's Spirited Away; Eilish, a longtime Miyazaki fan, has joked about having a crush on the film's dragon.

Eilish said writing which song helped her confirm her attraction to women?

Eilish said writing 'Lunch' helped her confirm her attraction to women; she wrote part of it before her first experience with a girl and the rest after.

'Birds of a Feather' ended 2024 as Spotify's most-streamed song of the year after overtaking which hit?

Espresso had topped Spotify's Wrapped list weeks earlier, with Eilish third; by 31 December 'Birds of a Feather' had passed Sabrina Carpenter's hit by about 650,000 plays out of nearly 1.8 billion.

Billie Eilish performed 'Birds of a Feather' from Long Beach, California, during the closing ceremony of which Olympics?

Paris 2024 closed with Eilish on Belmont Shore in Long Beach, part of the handover to Los Angeles, host of the 2028 Games.

Which Hit Me Hard and Soft single won Song of the Year at the 68th Grammys?

Wildflower began as an album track with no single release; steady streaming kept it on the charts until radio took it up the following March, and in February 2026 it gave the siblings a record third win.

Finneas played the recurring character Alistair on which TV series?

Glee cast Finneas as Alistair, a love interest for Spencer, in its final season in 2015; later that year he and Billie uploaded 'Ocean Eyes', and music took over from acting.

Billie's mother Maggie Baird taught at which Los Angeles improv institution?

The Groundlings had Maggie Baird as a performer alongside Will Ferrell and as a teacher: she was Melissa McCarthy's first improv coach.

Billie Eilish's first perfume comes in a bronze bottle shaped like what?

A woman's neck and chest, with the collarbone between them, form the bottle because those are Eilish's favourite parts of the body; the 2021 scent is vegan and cruelty-free.

At the 2020 Grammys, Eilish became the first woman to do what?

Win all four main awards at once: she beat Lizzo, the ceremony's most-nominated act, in all four, and the only prize Eilish lost that evening went to Lizzo.

Which Billie Eilish song was written for a tech giant's 2018 holiday advert, 'Share Your Gifts'?

Come Out and Play was written around the advert's story after the company sent the siblings an early cut; they recorded it at their parents' house.

Which band's frontman, a fellow Billie, joined Eilish for Rolling Stone's Musicians on Musicians series in 2019?

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong sat down with her for the magazine, each declaring themselves a fan of the other; she grew up on the band and spoke of her love for it on Carpool Karaoke.

'My Future' was written about Eilish's experience of what?

Being alone in quarantine gave her the song: she and Finneas wrote it in two days about a month into lockdown, the first of them in pouring rain, and she called it hopeful and full of self-reflection.

Which producer teased Eilish's 2023 film song by saying a secret guest had a 'very personal' tie to the movie?

Mark Ronson, executive producer of the soundtrack album, dropped the hint in July 2023 and dodged a question about a telltale pink sign on Eilish's Instagram; she confirmed the song days later.

Which instrument did Billie Eilish learn as a small child and write her first song on?

Ukulele came first: years later she played 'What a Wonderful Life', the first song she ever wrote, on one for James Corden during Carpool Karaoke.

Billie Eilish says the Los Angeles Children's Chorus taught her to sing without doing what?

Ruining her voice is what she says its training spared her: she joined at eight and credits the chorus with all her singing technique, and in 2021 it sang with her in her concert film.

Billie Eilish's first 'real' song, written for her mother's songwriting class, was about which subject?

The zombie apocalypse inspired it: the class assignment was to mine a film or TV show for lines, and she chose The Walking Dead, borrowing script lines and episode titles.

In which song's video does a tarantula crawl out of Eilish's mouth?

You Should See Me in a Crown got a vertical video in which live spiders crawl over Eilish; she had already posted a clip of a tarantula walking out of her mouth, captioned 'u scared?'

As a child, Billie Eilish recorded background dialogue for crowd scenes in Ramona and Beezus and which film series?

Eilish disliked acting auditions but enjoyed background-voice work, recording crowd dialogue for the X-Men series, Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Ramona and Beezus.

Billie Eilish's famous two-tone hairstyle paired black lengths with roots dyed which colour?

Green roots against black hair made her instantly recognisable on stage and in her videos; when she finally gave the look up, her farewell caption was simply 'bye green'.

How did a young Billie Eilish pay for her horse-riding lessons?

Working at the stable, bridling and brushing the horses, paid for lessons her family couldn't afford; she gave it up after a couple of years, saying she couldn't take being the poor girl there.

Billie Eilish was named Billie after which relative?

Her grandfather Bill, her mother's father, died while her mother was pregnant, so the baby her parents had planned to call Eilish was named Billie after him instead.

Which Billie Eilish video shows her as a fallen angel covered in oil, a warning about climate change?

All the Good Girls Go to Hell has her sprout wings, drop from the sky into an oil spill and walk on as the street burns; she released it urging fans to join that month's climate strikes.

Finneas originally wrote Billie Eilish's 'Ocean Eyes' for what?

Finneas wrote 'Ocean Eyes' for his band the Slightlys, then decided it suited his sister's voice better and gave it to her.

Billie Eilish joined which British singer on a 2024 remix of 'Guess'?

Charli XCX teased the remix of her Brat bonus track with a headless photo of the two of them, and fans worked out who her partner was from the clothes and jewellery.

Which classic ballad did Billie Eilish sing during the In Memoriam segment at the 2020 Oscars?

Yesterday accompanied the Academy's tribute to film figures who had died that year; Finneas played piano and sang harmony, and her version was hushed rather than faithful.

The executive who signed Billie Eilish in 2016 modelled her rollout on which genre's stars?

The Darkroom executive who signed her modelled the rollout on hip hop stars like Travis Scott and Chance the Rapper, focusing on persona and aesthetic rather than one big single.

Which festival had 15-year-old Billie Eilish on its bill in March 2017?

South by Southwest put her on its 2017 schedule five months before her first EP; days after the Austin trip she put out the 'Bellyache' video, a song sung from a killer's point of view.

At the 2020 Grammys, Billie Eilish took which singer's record as the youngest lead artist to win Album of the Year?

Taylor Swift had held the record since Fearless won in 2010; accepting the prize, Eilish said she thought a fellow nominee deserved it, then promised not to waste anyone's time.

Billie Eilish's song 'Party Favor' is a break-up message left on what occasion?

Their birthday is the sting, held back until halfway through: the sweet-sounding song opens with a ringing phone and plays out as a voicemail telling a possessive partner it's over.

In September 2017, Apple Music named Billie Eilish its what?

Apple Music named Eilish its Up Next artist in September 2017, with a short documentary, a live session EP and a Zane Lowe interview.

Which rapper featured on '&Burn', a 2017 remix of Billie Eilish's 'Watch'?

Vince Staples was her number one choice for the remix, Eilish said when it came out, and she called the verse he delivered incredible.

Which early-2018 Billie Eilish tour shares its name with a line from her single 'Bellyache'?

The Where's My Mind Tour, her second headlining run, lasted from February to April 2018; its name is the question she repeats before the chorus of 'Bellyache', the song that opened the shows.

Which Drake song did Billie Eilish cover as a Record Store Day 2018 B-side?

Hotline Bling was already part of her live set, sung acoustically on her 2018 tour; the studio cover then backed 'Party Favor' on a pink vinyl single for Record Store Day.

Which magazine has put the same questions to Billie Eilish year after year since 2017?

Vanity Fair first filmed her on October 18, 2017, aged 15, then returned on the same date in the years that followed and cut her old and new answers side by side as her fame grew.

Billie Eilish's single 'When I Was Older' was inspired by which 2018 film?

Roma gave the song its title, a line spoken by the boy Pepe, and its texture: the siblings wove sounds from the film itself, from ocean waves to a barking dog, into the track.

Which closing track of Billie Eilish's debut album replays a line from each earlier song in reverse order?

Goodbye runs back through the album a lyric at a time, from 'I Love You' to 'Bad Guy', like rewinding a tape to its start; with the two songs before it, the titles spell out a farewell.

Eilish, at 17, was the youngest Hot 100 chart-topper since which artist?

Lorde was 16 when 'Royals' began its nine weeks at number one in 2013; Eilish, 17, got there only after 'Bad Guy' had sat at number two for nine weeks.

Which artist's label announced a vinyl-only live album of Billie Eilish recorded in its Blue Room?

Jack White's Third Man Records hosted her secret acoustic set in a 250-capacity room and cut it straight to acetate as she sang; she marvelled that engineers were putting her voice 'onto a thing, right now'.

At 17, Billie Eilish became the youngest recipient of which Billboard honour in 2019?

Woman of the Year made the 17-year-old the youngest artist Billboard had ever named; in her speech she thanked the women in music who had paved the way for her.

Which 1960s soul hit did Billie Eilish and Finneas cover for Global Citizen's Together at Home?

Sunny was Bobby Hebb's answer to grief: he wrote it after his brother was stabbed to death in 1963, looking, he said, for a brighter day; the siblings played it from home in April 2020.

Which track on Billie Eilish's debut album is named after a 2010 puzzle video game?

Ilomilo borrows the name of a game in which two friends, Ilo and Milo, must find their way back to each other; Eilish turned that into a song about the fear of losing someone.

In 2020, 18-year-old Billie Eilish was the youngest name on which magazine's Celebrity 100?

Forbes ranked her 43rd among the year's top-earning stars and noted that she might have reached its top 20 had the pandemic not shut down her arena tour days after it began.

Where did Billie Eilish record her vocals for 'No Time to Die' in 2019?

In a bunk on her tour bus, parked in a basement in Texas: she sang in pitch darkness, just holding a microphone, between arena shows; the orchestra was added later.

Billie Eilish's October 2020 livestream concert raised money for which group?

Out-of-work touring crews benefited through Crew Nation, a fund for crew members left idle when 2020's concerts were cancelled; the show itself set her inside animated worlds using XR staging.

Which prize did Billie Eilish win at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards alongside Top Female Artist and Top Billboard 200 Album?

Top New Artist was one of her three wins from 12 nominations; Post Malone, who led the field with 16, beat her to Top Artist and went home with nine trophies.

Which HBO series featured Billie Eilish and Rosalía's 'Lo Vas a Olvidar' in a special episode?

Euphoria featured the bilingual duet in a January 2021 special episode; recorded two years earlier, it had sat unfinished while both singers toured.

Who directed the 2021 documentary Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry?

R. J. Cutler, who made the fashion documentary The September Issue, filmed Eilish at home and on tour as she finished her debut album, earned her driving licence and went through a break-up.

Accepting Record of the Year in 2021, Billie Eilish said which artist deserved to win?

Megan Thee Stallion, nominated for 'Savage', heard Eilish say from the stage, 'You deserve this'; she still left with three Grammys of her own that night, including Best New Artist.

On which children's TV show did Billie Eilish sing a version of 'Happier Than Ever' rewritten to be about numbers?

Sesame Street paired her with the Count, who turned the break-up song into a counting duet, answering her lines by singing that numbers sound so much better.

Which fashion house sold an eco-friendly recycled-vinyl edition of Happier Than Ever?

Gucci sold the edition only in a handful of its own stores; each disc was pressed from swirled scraps of the album's original run, so no two looked alike, and came with nail stickers by Alessandro Michele.

Which rapper's photo did a young Billie Eilish use as her profile picture before she knew who he was?

Tyler, the Creator was just 'a cool picture' to her until a friend told her who he was; she now cites him as a major influence on her music and style.

For which 2022 Pixar film did Billie Eilish and Finneas write three songs for a fictional boy band?

Turning Red is set in 2002, so the siblings wrote in the style of that era's boy bands; Pixar had won them over by sending a handmade scrapbook about the film's fictional group.

What is the name of the fictional boy band that performs Eilish-penned songs in a 2022 Pixar film?

4*Town has five members despite its name, and Finneas himself voices one of them, Jesse; he and Eilish wrote all three of the band's songs.

Billie Eilish's ballad 'TV' includes a line about which US Supreme Court ruling?

Roe v. Wade is named in a lyric she wrote after the draft opinion overturning it leaked in May 2022; she debuted the then-unreleased song on tour that June.

Which song accompanied 'TV' on the two-track EP Guitar Songs?

The 30th is named after November 30, 2021, the day a friend survived a near-fatal car crash; it was the first song she wrote after finishing Happier Than Ever.

Which London venue hosted the tour concert film Billie Eilish released with Apple Music?

The O2 Arena show, filmed earlier that summer, streamed on Apple Music in September 2022 as Live at the O2; she billed it as a way for fans who missed out on tickets to experience the tour.

Billie Eilish's Hometown Encore concerts in December 2022 were held at which Inglewood venue?

Kia Forum hosted three Hometown Encore nights to close her 2022 touring; at the second, Dave Grohl joined her for 'My Hero' and Phoebe Bridgers for 'Motion Sickness'.

In which Amazon Prime series did Billie Eilish make her acting debut in 2023?

Swarm cast her as the leader of a women's empowerment cult who takes the show's obsessive fan under her wing in its fourth episode, 'Running Scared'.

Who co-created the 2023 thriller series in which Billie Eilish made her acting debut as a cult leader?

Donald Glover created the show with Janine Nabers and directed its first episode; Eilish turns up in the fourth as Eva, who takes the obsessive heroine under her wing.

Which real-life group inspired the cult Eilish's character leads in her 2023 acting debut?

NXIVM sold self-improvement seminars before its founder, Keith Raniere, was convicted of racketeering; the series turns it into a women's empowerment cult led by Eilish's character.

Billie Eilish was announced in April 2024 as the featured artist of which music game's new season?

Fortnite Festival, built by Rock Band studio Harmonix, made her a playable character and added her songs to its rhythm stages.

On which British web series did Billie Eilish appear in July 2024?

Chicken Shop Date has host Amelia Dimoldenberg interview stars in London fried-chicken shops as if on a date; she ordered vegan nuggets and chips for Eilish.

Which charity was given the underwear piled up in the 'Guess' remix video featuring Billie Eilish?

I Support the Girls, a non-profit that gives bras and other essentials to people experiencing homelessness, received all of the roughly 10,000 garments heaped up for the shoot.

Billie Eilish's back-to-back Record of the Year wins in 2020 and 2021 were the first since which band's?

U2 did it with 'Beautiful Day' and 'Walk On' in 2001 and 2002; accepting her second trophy, Eilish told the audience that a rival nominee deserved it more.

Which director co-directed Billie Eilish's 2026 concert film with her?

James Cameron shot her 2025 tour in 3D; he said the idea came up while talking to her mother, Maggie Baird, who shares his interest in vegan food and sustainability.

Billie Eilish credits which band with inspiring '95%' of her love for music?

The Beatles were the band she grew up on and the one she calls her greatest inspiration; her brother Finneas later went on to work with their drummer, Ringo Starr.

Stumbling on which Aurora song on YouTube inspired Billie Eilish to pursue music?

Runaway's video was one of the reasons she began making music, she has said; Aurora replied that the song had 'served the purpose music should serve'.

Which frontman's concert was the second show Billie Eilish ever attended?

Matty Healy fronts the 1975; she said of that early concert that he 'changed so much about who I am, how I write music'.

Which Paramore song did Billie Eilish and Hayley Williams perform acoustically at Coachella?

Misery Business had been retired from Paramore's sets in 2018 amid criticism that its lyrics were anti-feminist; the Coachella duet in April 2022 was Hayley Williams's first performance of it since.

Which 2019 pop album did Billie Eilish say inspired her to continue making music?

Thank U, Next pulled her back: she said she had come to hate making music, then played the album constantly on flights until she wanted to write again.

Billie Eilish borrowed which phrase from a Rihanna acceptance speech to describe what fashion means to her?

A 'defense mechanism' was Rihanna's phrase; Eilish said in a 2019 interview that fashion had 'always been that way for me', a way to express herself without using words.

Billie Eilish explained why she wears baggy clothes in a May 2019 advert for which brand?

Calvin Klein's campaign had her say she dresses that way so 'nobody can have an opinion because they haven't seen what's underneath'.

What short film about body shaming did Billie Eilish premiere in Miami in 2020?

Not My Responsibility first played as a concert interlude, with Eilish slowly undressing as she lists the judgments made about her body; its audio later became a track on her second album.

What did Billie Eilish wear on her June 2021 British Vogue cover, in a break from her usual baggy clothes?

A corset was her own idea: she came to the magazine wanting to play with corsetry and the mid-century pin-up look she had always loved. Craig McDean took the pictures.

On which show did Billie Eilish joke in 2021 that she had dressed 'like Mrs Claus going to the club'?

Saturday Night Live had her as both host and musical guest that night; during the monologue her mother walked on wearing a 'Finneas' mom' T-shirt.

Which shoe brand let fans customise sneakers with Billie Eilish's lyrics in a 2024 collaboration?

Converse opened its Chuck Taylor design tool for a limited time, so buyers could add lyrics and imagery from Hit Me Hard and Soft instead of choosing one fixed design.

Billie Eilish and Finneas posted their 2024 video endorsing Kamala Harris to mark which day?

National Voter Registration Day, September 17, was the hook: the clip urged followers to register and said the siblings were backing Harris to protect 'our reproductive freedom, our planet, and our democracy'.

What is the name of the clothing merchandise line Billie Eilish launched in March 2018?

Blōhsh began as a personal project: she mocked up hoodies by colouring in pictures downloaded from Google, designs she called 'really janky', before Universal's merchandise arm scaled it up.

Which Japanese artist directed and animated Billie Eilish's 'You Should See Me in a Crown' video?

Takashi Murakami spent eight months on the anime-style video, using motion capture of Eilish herself to animate her cartoon double.

Billie Eilish's Oscar de la Renta ball gown at the 2021 Met Gala drew comparisons with which Hollywood star?

Marilyn Monroe was the reference critics reached for; her stylist said the ball gown fulfilled a wish that went back to the dolls Eilish played with as a child.

In the 'Bad Guy' video, what is the man doing while Billie Eilish sits on his back?

Push-ups close the Dave Meyers-directed video: its final scene comes after a run of odd set pieces that includes a nosebleed and a ride with men on tricycles.

What was the name of the six-day climate seminar Billie Eilish hosted in London?

Overheated shares its name with a track on Happier Than Ever; the June 2022 event paired talks by climate activists with a documentary featuring Eilish and Vivienne Westwood.

Which nonprofit did Billie Eilish let use 'Ocean Eyes' in a campaign about the Great Barrier Reef?

CoralWatch set its social media campaign to the song to draw attention to the bleaching that warming seas are causing on the world's largest coral reef.

At which 2020 political event did Billie Eilish perform and endorse Joe Biden?

Democratic National Convention viewers heard the 18-year-old urge them to 'vote like our lives and the world depend on it' before she gave 'My Future' its first live performance.

Which organisation's Music Decarbonization Project did Billie Eilish help start in 2023?

Reverb's project aims to end the music industry's carbon emissions; to launch it, part of her 2023 Lollapalooza headline set ran on batteries charged by a temporary solar farm.

Billie Eilish told billionaires to give their money away in 2025 while accepting an Innovator Award from which newspaper's magazine?

The Wall Street Journal's magazine honoured her in New York with Mark Zuckerberg reportedly in the room; Stephen Colbert had just announced she was giving $11.5 million of her tour earnings to food and climate causes.

At which ceremony did Eilish first perform 'No Time to Die' live in February 2020?

Brit Awards viewers saw the first live performance five days after the song came out, with Johnny Marr on guitar; that week it entered the UK chart at number one, her first chart-topper there.

Eilish opened for which act on select 2018 tour dates?

Florence + the Machine had the 16-year-old open two arena shows of the High as Hope Tour, in Nashville and Charlotte, in October 2018; six months later her own debut album went to number one.

Whose record did Billie Eilish break to become the youngest Coachella headliner in 2022?

Ariana Grande set the mark at 25 in 2019, on a weekend when a 17-year-old Eilish played further down the same Coachella bill; three years later Eilish topped it at 20.

Billie Eilish was the third artist to pass 100 million Spotify monthly listeners after Taylor Swift and whom?

The Weeknd was first to 100 million monthly listeners and Taylor Swift second; Eilish got there in June 2024 with only 82 songs on the service, fewer than half as many as either.

Billie Eilish's song title 'Therefore I Am' plays on which philosopher's famous dictum?

René Descartes coined 'I think, therefore I am'; Eilish's chorus borrows the line to brush off people whose opinions of her she has no time for.

Under what stage name did rapper Brandon Adams, whom Billie Eilish dated in 2018–2019, perform?

7:AMP was his stage name, though Eilish called him 'Q'; their break-up plays out in The World's a Little Blurry, where she says she 'just wasn't happy'.

Which perceptual condition does Eilish say she has?

Synesthesia means she gives every song a colour, texture, shape and even a day of the week while she is still making it; she has said Finneas has it too.

Billie Eilish's mother, Maggie Baird, voiced the character Samara in which video game series?

Mass Effect 2 gives Maggie Baird's warrior a mission close to home: Samara asks the player to help her hunt down her own daughter, a serial killer.

Which Gorillaz hit did Billie Eilish sing with guest Damon Albarn during her 2022 Coachella headline set?

Feel Good Inc. followed a duet on her own 'Getting Older'; introducing Albarn, she said he had changed her whole view of what music and art could be.

Which plant-based food charity did Billie Eilish's mother, Maggie Baird, found in 2020?

Support + Feed began in the first months of the pandemic, providing plant-based meals to people facing food insecurity; it then partnered with her daughter's 2022 world tour.

Billie Eilish's parents met while acting in a play in which Alaskan city?

Anchorage was where Maggie Baird, then a New York stage actor, was cast in a play alongside Patrick O'Connell in 1984; they dated for 11 years before marrying in 1995.

Billie Eilish's 'You Should See Me in a Crown' takes its title from a villain's line in which BBC drama?

Sherlock's Moriarty, who breaks into the Crown Jewels in the same episode, delivers the line; she and Finneas, fans of the show, thought it was 'dope' and wrote a song around it.

What was Finneas's 2019 solo debut extended play called?

Blood Harmony is, in Finneas's words, the English expression for 'what it sounds like when siblings sing together, that biologic chemistry'.

Which Finneas solo song reached number 17 on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart?

Let's Fall in Love for the Night is about dreaming of a girl he has never met; in 2020 he re-recorded it as a '1964' version that critics compared to Frank Sinatra.

What was the title of Finneas's 2021 debut studio album?

Optimist was written and produced entirely by Finneas himself, who released it in October 2021, two years after his first EP.

As a teenager, Finneas had a guest part on which ABC sitcom?

Modern Family was one of the small TV parts he took as a teenage actor; he dropped acting because it got in the way of his music, later saying TV work left him 'crazy pressured and stressed'.

What colour are the tears Billie Eilish cries in the video for 'When the Party's Over'?

Black tears came from a fan's drawing of her with black eyes leaking, which she wanted to create for real; in the video they start after she gulps down a cup of black liquid.

Which song did Eilish perform at the 62nd Grammy Awards in January 2020?

When the Party's Over was sung as a quiet duet with Finneas rather than her chart-topping 'Bad Guy', the song that won her Record and Song of the Year the same night.

What dream car did Billie Eilish receive for her 17th birthday in The World's a Little Blurry?

A matte black Dodge Challenger, her dream car, is unveiled in the film on her 17th birthday, between scenes of her earning a learner's permit and then her licence.

Jesse Rutherford, whom Billie Eilish dated from 2022 to 2023, is the frontman of which band?

The Neighbourhood, known for 'Sweater Weather', is Rutherford's band; the couple answered talk about their age gap by dressing as a baby and an old man for Halloween in 2022.

Which couple gives Billie Eilish backstage advice at Coachella in The World's a Little Blurry?

Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom offered advice, and Perry said to call if she ever needed anything; Eilish then went on stage and forgot the words to one of her own songs.

Who co-directed Billie Eilish's 2021 concert film A Love Letter to Los Angeles with Patrick Osborne?

Robert Rodriguez co-directed with animator Patrick Osborne, blending live action with animation in the manner of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Cool World.

On which streaming service was Billie Eilish's 2021 concert film A Love Letter to Los Angeles released?

Disney+ released it in September 2021; between songs an animated Eilish drifts through the city, in sequences made with motion capture and rotoscoping.

Which orchestra backs Billie Eilish in the 2021 concert film shot without a live audience?

The Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by its music director Gustavo Dudamel, backs her in the film, which was shot with the seats empty because of the pandemic.

Where in French-speaking Canada did Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour open in September 2024?

Quebec City's Videotron Centre hosted the first of 106 shows, played on a 360-degree stage that let the crowd surround her on all sides.

What Ticketmaster feature did Billie Eilish use on her 2024–25 Hit Me Hard and Soft tour to fight scalping?

Face Value Exchange let buyers resell tickets only for the price they had paid; she also barred ticket transfers, so that fans rather than scalpers got the seats.

Finneas named one of his singles after which YouTuber, whom he later married?

Claudia Sulewski met Finneas in September 2018 and he wrote 'Claudia' after that first night; she painted its cover art and has since directed two of his music videos.

Billie Eilish's 1 by 1 Tour, which began in October 2018, supported which release?

Her debut EP was still her only record when the 44-date tour began in Oakland; her first album arrived three weeks after the last show, in Barcelona.

Who was the opening act on Billie Eilish's 2019 When We All Fall Asleep Tour?

Denzel Curry opened dates on the 66-show tour; her brother Finneas, who was also in her band each night, was another of its support acts.

Billie Eilish's pandemic-shortened 2020 arena tour played its final show in which city?

Only three shows happened: Miami, Orlando and a final night in Raleigh on March 12, 2020, before venues closed.

On which British children's channel did Billie Eilish read a bedtime story in 2024?

CBeebies viewers heard her read This Moose Belongs to Me, about a boy who says he owns a moose; she said she loves nature as well as music and wanted children to look after wild creatures.

In which city did Happier Than Ever, The World Tour begin in February 2022?

New Orleans' Smoothie King Center opened what became her first full arena tour, after the pandemic had cut her 2020 attempt to three shows; it ran until April 2023 in Guadalajara.

Which Happier Than Ever single leapt 92 places to number two on the Hot 100 in its second week?

Therefore I Am entered at 94 because it came out on the last day of the chart's tracking week; with a full week counted, it jumped to number two.

What animal appears with Billie Eilish in the self-directed video for 'Your Power'?

An anaconda slowly coils around her as she sings about people who abuse their power, an image read as a picture of control tightening; the clip won Video for Good at the 2021 VMAs.

Billie Eilish's 2019 single inspired by a nightmare opens with her stepping off which landmark?

The Golden Gate Bridge is painted on the single's cover, and the song's working title was Nightmare before it became a message of support.

The lyrics of Billie Eilish's 2022 ballad 'TV' lament public fixation on a trial between which two film stars?

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard fought a defamation case in 2022, and Eilish told NME she found the feud trivial beside the news it was drowning out.

What does the French title of Billie Eilish's 'L'Amour de Ma Vie' mean, a phrase its first verse calls a lie?

The love of my life is what she once told an ex they were, and the song admits it was untrue before lurching into a club-ready second half.

In Billie Eilish's 'Bellyache', the narrator is wracked with guilt after doing what to her friends?

Killing them is the song's fictional crime, and Eilish traced the idea to the guilt she felt as a child after stealing toys from friends.

Billie Eilish's eerie, carnival-like track 'The Diner' is sung from the point of view of what kind of person?

A stalker narrates the song, a threat Eilish knew first-hand: in 2021 a court granted her a restraining order against a man who kept turning up opposite her home.

In the lyrics of 'NDA', a song about losing her privacy, Billie Eilish reveals she bought what in 2019?

A secret house followed a 2019 leak of her family's address online, after which three fans turned up at the door in a single day.

The verses of Billie Eilish's 2021 folk ballad 'Your Power' narrate an older man's exploitation of whom?

A high school student is the victim in the verses, and Eilish called the song an open letter to people who take advantage of others.

Billie Eilish's 'Goldwing' borrows part of a 1910 choral hymn by which English composer?

Gustav Holst took the words from the Rigveda, the ancient Sanskrit hymns that fascinated him, though he is best known for his suite The Planets.

Which everyday sound, recorded on Billie Eilish's phone in Sydney, ended up on her hit 'Bad Guy'?

A crossing signal for pedestrians caught her ear in February 2017, and the phone recording waited two years before surfacing on her biggest hit.

Billie Eilish's 'Happier Than Ever' opens as a hushed acoustic ballad before erupting into which style?

Pop-punk guitars and crashing snares take over around the third verse, yet the siblings wrote the first chorus melody on a cheap $80 guitar.

Billie Eilish's 'Oxytocin', written to sound wild in concert, is named after what kind of substance?

A hormone released through love or childbirth gave the track its name, and Eilish wrote it because the album lacked a song built for the stage.

In the video for the 2018 duet 'Lovely', Billie Eilish and her singing partner pace around inside what?

A glass box traps the pair while a single cloud rains on them and ice coats the walls; Eilish devised the idea to show being stuck with someone.

Which bodily sound keeps time on Billie Eilish's 'Wish You Were Gay', beside canned laughter and applause?

Cracking knuckles tap out the percussion, and Finneas admitted he had no real justification for the laugh track that reacts to her lines.

Billie Eilish joined which British singer at Coachella 2023 to perform their duet 'Never Felt So Alone'?

Labrinth released the single with Eilish's vocals uncredited, after fans had guessed from a teaser video that she was the featured voice.

Who edited the homemade video that Billie Eilish directed for her 2016 single 'Six Feet Under'?

Her mother, Maggie Baird, assembled the clip from footage shot in front of a fence, with some of it played in reverse.

In Billie Eilish's self-directed 'Xanny' video, what do disembodied hands press into her face?

Cigarette butts leave burns as she sits on a white bench, and the clip earned a Best Direction nomination at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards.

Which British rock guitarist, part of the film's score sessions, plays on Billie Eilish's 'No Time to Die'?

Johnny Marr, once of the Smiths, recalled that the team kept reducing the arrangement so the power stayed in the intensity of her performance.

The second verse of Billie Eilish's ballad 'I Love You' is laced with recorded sounds from where?

An airplane cabin supplies a flight attendant call button, pitch-shifted to follow the chords, because the verse is about waiting on the tarmac.

Which singer joined Billie Eilish for a duet of 'Ocean Eyes' on Coachella's opening night in 2024?

Lana Del Rey also sang her own debut single, Video Games, with Eilish that night, so each star performed the song that first got her noticed.

Which Grammy-winning singer played piano as Billie Eilish sang 'Ocean Eyes' on The Late Late Show in 2019?

Alicia Keys traded vocals with her during the performance, then released her own soulful piano cover of the song in Spotify's Singles series that month.

In the 2016 music video for 'Ocean Eyes', what swirls around Billie Eilish as she sings to the camera?

Lilac smoke surrounds her in a torrent, and Stereogum predicted that the simple clip's direction would certainly help the song.

Billie Eilish's 'Ocean Eyes' appeared on the soundtrack album of which 2017 big-screen love story?

Everything, Everything follows a teenager kept indoors by an immune disorder who longs to see the sea, a fitting home for the song.

A demo session of Billie Eilish's 'Ocean Eyes' was added in 2020 to which music software, used to produce it?

Logic Pro supplied every sound on the track: Finneas built it entirely from the stock sounds that ship with the program.

For a 2019 Late Late Show performance of 'Ocean Eyes', Billie Eilish's studio audience was made up of whom?

Only women filled the seats for the stripped-back performance, in which Eilish and her guest swapped vocals over a single piano.

Which artist joined Astronomyy, Goldhouse and Cautious Clay in remixing Billie Eilish's 'Ocean Eyes' in 2017?

Blackbear added ghostly vocal harmonies of his own, and Billboard wrote that his version took the song to new emotional heights.

Billie Eilish has named 'Station', a song by which English singer-producer, as a key influence on 'Ocean Eyes'?

Låpsley is the middle name and stage name of Holly Lapsley Fletcher, a singer, songwriter and producer born in 1996.

Which New Jersey rock band turned Billie Eilish's hushed 'Ocean Eyes' into a loud guitar cover on a 2024 EP?

The Gaslight Anthem set Brian Fallon's raspy voice against a loud drumbeat and chugging guitar on the EP History Books (Short Stories).

The garbage bags Billie Eilish hauls down a desert highway in the 'Bellyache' video turn out to hold what?

Cash is what she finally reveals, and the shoot took place on Mojave-Tropico Road, a deserted stretch of highway in California.

When 'Wish You Were Gay' came out, Billie Eilish pledged a share of merchandise sales to which LGBTQ youth charity?

The Trevor Project, a crisis and suicide prevention service for queer young people, received a portion of her online store's takings for 48 hours.

Critics compared the jazzy opening of Billie Eilish's 'L'Amour de Ma Vie' to the work of which late French singer?

Édith Piaf was the comparison for the retro first half, before the track swerves into a synth-driven ending that reviewers likened to hyperpop.