The Billie Eilish Divide

You’ve probably seen a lot of Billie Eilish lately. Maybe you raised your eyebrows at her, um, intimate Rolling Stone cover story from last month. (“I should have a PhD in masturbation,” went one of her viral quotes from the interview.) If you’re a Swiftie (or a Taylor Swift hater), surely you saw her March Billboard interview in which she criticized artists who make multiple vinyl variants of the same record. (“I can’t even express to you how wasteful it is,” she said, never mentioning Swift by name but still ending up on the receiving end of some Swiftie blowback. If the shoe fits!) Or maybe earlier this year you felt like you were seeing her perform her Barbie soundtrack contribution, “What Was I Made For?,” on an award show every other time you turned on the TV. And even if you didn’t watch, maybe you at least heard about how Eilish won awards at all those shows.