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AT 17, BILLIE EILISH is already one of the biggest names in music. Even if you haven’t heard the pop prodigy’s songs before—although that seems unlikely, as they’re everywhere, from Top 40 radio stations to hit Netflix shows including 13 Reasons Why—you’ve almost certainly heard of her. The teen’s angsty avant-pop tunes, written with and produced solely by her older brother, Finneas O’Connell, have been streamed billions of times on digital platforms. She has performed on Ellen and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. She has toured the world playing sold-out concerts before hordes of screaming young fans. And all before releasing her critically acclaimed, chart-topping debut studio album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, back in March. Needless to say, Billie is on fire, and she’s…

“I LOVE THE EYES ON ME,” Billie Eilish told Elle of the stratospheric fame she’s gained over the past few years. These days, she has the entire world’s eyes on her. And when the teen wunderkind is in peak performance mode delivering electrifying and high-energy live shows, it’s even harder to look away. She may be flaunting her impossibly cool swagger while crooning that she’s going to “run this nothing town” in her confidence-soaked track “You Should See Me in a Crown.” Or lighting up the stage as she pogoes around to “Bad Guy” during her Coachella debut—a performance critics hailed as a “triumph.” Or stripping it down for an ultra-subdued, unplugged version of the emotion-tinged ballad “When the Party’s Over.” It won’t matter, because there’s seemingly no stage, large…

BILLIE EILISH may be a viral teen sensation, but she’s far from your stereotypical 17-year-old pop princess—and that’s aptly reflected in her idiosyncratic cool-girl style. There’s absolutely no fashion rule the singer won’t break, and that very much includes the age-old tenet that less is more. For the burgeoning streetwear icon, it’s head-to-toe prints and high-fashion monograms—hello, Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Takashi Murakami!—over safe and arguably boring solids. It’s monochromatic slime-inspired acid green over innocuous neutrals. It’s layers of trends over the usual “pick one” mentality. (Only Billie could pull off an LV print on top of neon green on top of electric-blue faux-fur pants.) And she never forgets the accessories. Stackable statement jewelry paired with bucket hats, ski masks and chunky men’s sneakers usually top off the singer’s edgy…

THERE WAS a brief period right before Billie Eilish released her debut studio album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, that she could still go out in public and be anonymous. “For a minute, I could go somewhere nobody knew who I was—maybe at Costco or something,” she told The New York Times in March. “I would go places and try to convince myself I wasn’t faaamous or whatever.” Now, however, the 17-year-old songstress can’t even venture out in her own neighborhood without someone recognizing her. “NOW I LOVE WHAT I DO AND I’M ME AGAIN. THE GOOD ME. I LOVE THE EYES ON ME.” Growing up under the prying gaze of the entire world is an atypical way to spend your teenage years, for sure. And…

BILLIE EILISH was born on December 18, 2001, and given the name Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell. How did she get such a long name? As the story goes, her parents, Maggie Baird and Patrick O’Connell, fell in love with the name Eilish after watching a documentary about conjoined Irish twins Katie and Eilish Holton. If they ever had a daughter, the couple determined, they’d call her Eilish. But those plans changed when Maggie’s father, Bill, passed away while she was pregnant. As a way to honor his memory, they decided to call their little girl Billie instead. As for the Pirate part of her name? That can be credited to her older brother, Finneas O’Connell, who was 4 at the time and insisted on calling his new baby sis…

“YOU KIND OF HAVE TO TRY CERTAIN THINGS OUT TO FIGURE OUT WHAT YOU WANT.” DESPITE what some people may believe, Billie Eilish maintains she didn’t purposely set out to create music that was anti-pop. As she told Elle, dissenting against the archetypal pop narrative was never the intention: “I was just making songs with my brother. Now it’s like a thing: I’m this artist who’s going against the whatever. Where?! I wasn’t saying, ‘[Screw] pop!’ I was just making what I wanted,” she says. That, in a nutshell, has been the goal ever since she and Finneas, now 22, started writing music together all those years ago in their childhood bedrooms. To this day, Billie still only cowrites and produces with her brother. Unlike the typical pop star, she…

Don’t ever tell Billie Eilish she’s too young to understand something. She will set you straight. “Bro, teenagers know more about the country that we’re living in right now than anybody,” the 17-year-old asserted in an interview with NME. Billie is, of course, part of Generation Z—a group of woke and enterprising young people whose formative years have been spent contending with a troubled economy, the realities of climate change, a growing number of school shootings and an America that’s politically divided. It’s the generation responsible for March for Our Lives and that can claim 16-year-old Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg as one of their own. So maybe Billie is right when she implies teenagers should have a say in how to run the world. “AS YOUNG PEOPLE WE HAVE…

1. BILLIE IS A MEMBER OF GEN Z. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE GENERATION BEFORE HERS? A. The Greatest Generation B. Millennials C. Generation X D. The Next Generation 2. According to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, Gen Zers are “diverse and on track to be the most well-educated generation yet.” What percentage of Gen Z believes the government should do more to solve problems? A. 70 B. 55 C. 20 D. 10 3. Billie Eilish was one of 140 musicians, including Miley Cyrus, Lizzo, Ariana Grande, Haim and Kacey Musgraves, to participate in a full-page ad in Billboard titled “Band Together, Bans Off” in support of which nonprofit organization? A. ACLU B. Human Rights Watch C. Planned Parenthood D. UN Women 4. Billie teamed up…

BILLIE EILISH knows what it’s like to stan someone so much it hurts. In fact, she can remember being so “in love” with Justin Bieber when she was 12 that she’d sob thinking he’d never know she existed. “Everything about me was about him, and everything I did was for him. It was so miserable,” she told The Guardian earlier this year. Five years later, the tables have turned, and now she’s the one legions of preteens and teenagers worldwide idolize and weep over. (Her fan base has dubbed themselves the Avocados, inspired by Billie’s old Instagram handle.) “People at my meet-and-greets have said, ‘Billie, I feel the way you feel about Justin Bieber about you,’ and that blows my mind,” she said. “I just feel bad because if that’s…