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she had rejected the idea of following her parents and brother
into the acting game, and by this time, much of her creative
energy was directed toward dance. Billie’s early enthusiasm for
tap had grown into a love of all kinds of dance—and even now
when she talks about dancing, it’s clear she adores the freedom
it gives her to express herself. At thirteen she was attending
the Revolution Dance Center (RDC) in LA, where she spent
up to eleven hours a week in the dance studio, concentrating
on learning contemporary, lyrical, and hip-hop styles, and
performing in regular competitions. Billie seemed set to become
a dancer.
She still loved to sing, though. In fact, it was impossible
not to sing in such a musical household. She would sing the
songs her parents played, songs she loved herself, and songs
she or Finneas had written. Through the bedroom wall, she
could hear Finneas writing and recording music on Logic Pro
at his workstation, and she knew his songs almost as well as
he did. Billie would join him too, adding her soft, melodic voice
to his compositions, harmonizing, and even trying out her
own songs.
On August 1, 2015 (the day after Finneas’s eighteenth
birthday), they uploaded one of their collaborations to
SoundCloud, the online
BILLIE EILISH—FROM E-GIRL TO ICON
She still loved to platform for sharing and

sing, though. In fact, discovering original music.
The song was titled “sHE’s
it was impossible brOKen,” with “HE’s OK”

not to sing in such a standing out in capital
letters and contrasting
musical household. with the sentiment of the

title. Billie must have been
aware of the “sHE beLIEveD” meme (with “HE LIED” picked
out in the same way) that had been popular across the web

26 since 2012, but nevertheless, it was a smart variation on the