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The story is now part of pop history,

set to be retold a million times.

t’s a fairy tale about a thirteen-year-old girl who went to bed a
Inobody and woke up a star. And while that sounds like a Disney OVERNIGHT SENSATION
movie plot, it really isn’t too far from the truth. Billie Eilish was
just a normal teenager who happened to post a song online, and
Billie herself admits that when the song went viral, everything
changed so suddenly it was difficult to take in. She just went
along with it, loving every moment.
Back in the autumn of 2015, if any member of the O’Connell
family seemed destined to be a star it was Billie’s eighteen-year-old
brother, Finneas, whose acting career was taking off. He had
followed appearances in the movie Bad Teacher with TV roles,
including a major part in the final season of Glee, which had
been broadcast early in 2015. At the same time his band, the
Slightlys, were winning friends and acclaim in Los Angeles. They
had played in front of ten thousand people in the Santa Monica
Pier Twilight Concert Series and an LA Weekly article in October
2014 had hinted that they might be “the next big thing.”
Thirteen-year-old Billie was content to bask in her brother’s
success. After becoming disheartened by a disastrous audition, 25