Oct 9
Bi Pop Star Billie Eilish Declares She's 'Never Talking About My Sexuality Ever Again'
Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 2 MIN.
Pop singer Billie Eilish is open about being bi – maybe too open, she said in a recent interview, declaring that she regrets how her sexuality is public knowledge and she's never going to discuss it again.
Speaking with Vogue, Eilish looked back on comments she made in the past to publications like Variety and Rolling Stone and gave vent to her dissatisfactions at how her acknowledgement of liking girls as well as boys exploded into headlines.
"I wish no one knew anything about my sexuality or anything about my dating life," Eilish stated. "Ever, ever, ever."
"And I hope that they never will again," the pop singer went on to say. "And I'm never talking about my sexuality ever again. And I'm never talking about who I'm dating ever again."
The "Ocean Eyes" singer explained, "I guess I also underestimate that things I say will be blown up into the biggest news of the whole world."
"That's so unnatural," Eilish continued, before saying that people are "all little kids growing up and learning ourselves."
On the other hand, even if she had never publicly come out as bi, her fans would most likely have put it all together given the unambiguous sentiments of power anthems like "Lunch" and – in a collaboration with Charli XCX – "Guess."
Indeed, Eilish puts it right out there with "Guess," stating, "Charli likes boys, but she knows I'd hit it / Charli, call me if you're with it," while Charli XCX teases listeners with, "You wanna guess what me and Billie have been texting about... You wanna guess if I'm serious about this song."
Even if Eilish never does talk to the press about her personal life again, she remains happy to touch on politics.
"A lot of my fans are going to be able to vote for the first time," the "No Time to Die" singer told Vogue. "So I'm like, 'Do you like freedom?'"
"First female president?" Eilish added. "Would be really amazing. I would love to feel safe as a woman in my country."
Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Associate Arts Editor and Staff Contributor. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.