Even as she was on her way to becoming a Grammy-winning superstar, Billy Ellisch, like any other teenager, simply wanted her driver’s license.
“All these ridiculous things were happening in my life, which are memorable moments for anyone’s career … But at the same time, I was like, ‘I want to get my license,” he gave Zane Lowe of Apple Music a For his new Apple TV + documentary “Billy Ellish: The World’s a Little Blurry”, told Thursday at the premiere ceremony.
“I want to run my whole life.”
Fitting, until the age of 19, pulls up to the event – held in the hills of her Los Angeles hometown – in the Black Dodge Challenger she calls the “dragon” she received for her 17th birthday. This is a sweet moment captured in the documentary – along with an even more poignant scene from his father Tom, who is giving Elish final instructions before he drives alone for the first time.
After he entered, Eilish – shaking his trademark neon-green hair under a bucket hat – released his 2019 debut album “When We All Fall So, Are We Go?” For the stripped-down performance, she was only on a baby-blue piano with her producer brother Finness. (Just to show you how close the siblings are, Illish had a matching stool and Mike.)
The “Bad Guy” then sat on the show for a one-on-one interview with singer Lowe, which was streamed live on Apple TV, Apple Music and Eilish’s YouTube channel. The five-time Grammy winner reported that the title of her new documentary came from the lyrics of “Ilomilo”.
“We just went through all my songs and looked through the bus and saw if there was anything or if it sparked an idea,” Illish said. “And” The World’s a Little Blurry, “it felt like that [captured] In a way the film and the time of my life that happened in the film… just crazy things were happening when I was also going through puberty and learning about a teenager and fame. “
Showing a few clips from the documentary, Illish also gave love to his fans who accompanied him on his journey.
“I really grew up with my fans. We have grown up together, ”she said. “He was 14 when I was doing a 14-year-old show. And then I was 15, and they were 15. Especially when I used to do shows at the same place, like, a year later, I would see the same kids and they would be so different. And we would be so different, but we would still be in sync. “
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