Billie Eilishs brother Finneas responds to “who is the next Billie?

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Billie Eilish‘s brother Finneas doesn’t prefer it when folks ask him who the “subsequent Billie Eilish” is.

The producer was requested on Apple Music’s ALT CTRL with Hanuman Welch about an article in The Guardian that mentioned who could be the “subsequent Billie”.

Finneas – who produced Eilish’s breakthrough album ‘When We All Fall Asleep, The place Do We Go?’ – revealed he was “so mad about that” earlier than explaining that the query ought to have been requested otherwise.

He elaborated: “Properly, the one model of that query that I can get behind is who’s the subsequent individual that may do precisely what they need and be deemed pop music?”

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“That verbiage I might perceive, however to me it does a disservice to 2 issues. It does an enormous disservice to Billie, in that you would be a subsequent Billie,” he added.

He continued: “It additionally does an enormous disservice to anybody they declare Billie is the subsequent model, you already know what I imply?

“And I feel that to me it was like, it’s not cyclical in that means. Billie was nominated for album of the yr, the identical yr Lana was. It’s not such as you move the torch and then you definately simply retire.”

Finneas went on so as to add that the query itself is ironic as a result of persons are responding so positively to their music as a result of it’s distinctive and that Eilish is in comparison with artists like Lorde and Lana del Ray as a result of they “did the identical factor” of attempting to create their very own path.

Finneas went on so as to add that the query itself is ironic as a result of persons are responding so positively to their music as a result of it’s distinctive and that Eilish is in comparison with artists like Lorde and Lana del Ray as a result of they “did the identical factor” of attempting to create their very own path.

“They’ve each been influences of ours, for certain. I additionally was like, ‘Isn’t she a bit of new- .. for there to be a subsequent of any?’ Are you aware what I imply?” he added.

“Think about if any individual was like, ‘Who’s the subsequent Timothée Chalamet?’ It’s like, he’s at the moment Timothée Chalamet,” Finneas mentioned.

 

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