The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Billie Eilish goes blond — and ends up breaking an Instagram record

- By Christi Carras

Blond is the new green for musician Billie Eilish, who has ditched her signature lime green hair color upon winning her latest Grammy Award for record of the year.

On Wednesday, the “Bad Guy” hit- maker shared a photo revealing her platinum- blond dye job — and broke an Instagram record in the process. Eilish, who previously sported black hair with neon- green roots, also showed off her new bangs, falling in shaggy layers across her forehead.

“Pinch me,” Eilish captioned the image posted on St. Patrick’s Day, racking up 1 million “likes” in six minutes, according to the BBC. That post surpassed a record previously set in 2018 by fellow singer Selena Gomez’s Instagram post marking her 26th birthday.

And this isn’t the first time Eilish has made history. In 2020, the teen superstar became the second person ever to sweep the top four categories at the Grammys as well as the youngest solo act to win album of the year, at 18. Eilish is also the youngest performer ever to write and record the theme song for a “James Bond” movie.

( The titular tune from the soundtrack of“No Time to Die” just won the 2021 Grammy for song written for visual media — the first to do so before the premiere of its tandem film, which has been repeatedly delayed by the COVID- 19 pandemic.)

Since “The World’s A Little Blurry” debuted last month on Apple TV+, fans have speculated that Eilish had been hiding her latest hair color under a wig — including at Sunday’s Grammy Awards, during which she obscured her roots with a patterned bucket hat.

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