Billie Eilish says being ”strong-willed” has helped her to keep away from being ”used and manipulated” within the music business.
The 17-year-old singer/songwriter has opened up about her first assembly with music administration when she was 13 years outdated, and recollects individuals saying she is ”going for use” within the business and have a look at her as if to say she was going to have a ”horrible profession”.
She mentioned: ”There has been a complete world of younger, particularly feminine artists, and each artist (not simply younger) getting used and manipulated by the stereotypical label or business.
”There’s form of this bizarre title on all the things now the place it is like, individuals count on that.
”I bear in mind the primary time I had any type of assembly with a label or administration, I used to be 13. I believe the one individuals that did not have a look at me like I used to be going to have a horrible profession had been the folks that I ended up working with. Everyone was similar to, ‘Oh, you are 13, yikes, you are going to be used,’ and this and that.
”And I’m like, ‘Yo, y’all are the individuals that may use me within the scenario you might be speaking about.’ So, I do not know what that’s imagined to imply. The solely individuals who did not say that s**t had been the folks that I felt an power and reference to.”
But Billie feels ”actually fortunate and grateful” with the assist she has obtained from her crew, as a result of she has ”by no means had any points” with individuals trying to ”pull her in several instructions”.
Speaking to Pharrell Williams for V Magazine, she added: ”I’m actually, actually fortunate and grateful that I’ve had the expertise that I had with my label and with my crew and everybody, as a result of I by no means had any points with individuals attempting to drag me in a special route, one wherein I might not wish to be headed.
”I believe that may simply be as a result of I’ve all the time been the form of individual that is aware of what the f**okay I would like, and if it isn’t what I would like, then I’m not going to do it.
”It’s actually helped me and I believe I describe it in several methods the place it is like, I believe it is my very best quality and my worst high quality, how strong-willed I’m, as a result of it has introduced me right here.”
