Billie Eilish

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Billie Eilish says she has returned “to the girl that I was” while making her new album. In a recent interview published by Rolling Stone, the multiple Grammy-winning singer said that her new album helped her to break free from the character she had created for people to enjoy and to find the person she was during the “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” era.

“I feel like this album is me. It’s not a character,” she told the publication. “It feels like the When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? version of me. It feels like my youth and who I was as a kid.”

Eilish explained that while making the tracks for the new album, she felt that she was revisiting the 2019’s Billie, who was the best version of herself.

“This whole process has felt like I’m coming back to the girl that I was,” she said. “I’ve been grieving her. I’ve been looking for her in everything, and it’s almost like she got drowned by the world and the media. I don’t remember when she went away.”

The 22-year-old musician said that this version of her started fading during 2020 at the breakout of the COVID-19 pandemic when she had to be alone for long periods of time.

She said that she lost touch with her identity and dyed her hair blonde during the process of self-discovery. She also dropped her “Happier than Ever” album in the following months.

Eilish, however, told Rolling Stone that she did not regret any attempts she had made to find herself again because it made her more able to try something out of her comfort zone.

The singer later explained the reason that she was not releasing any singles ahead of her album’s release on May 17 is that she does not like it when her favorite singers put out a single without any context. “I really don’t like when things are out of context,” she said. “This album is like a family: I don’t want one little kid to be