Billie Eilish world released a new song titled “TV” at a Manchester concert earlier this month, and included the following lyrics: “The Internet has gone wild watching movie stars on trial / While they’re canceling Roe v. Wade “.
It didn’t take long to investigate to find out if the Grammy winner was referring to the defamation lawsuit between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. The trial was a media sensation for weeks on the Internet, so much so that people seemed to care more about celebrity drama than the impending annulment of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court. At least that’s how Eilish saw it.
“I was in this state of depression, losing my own rights over my own body, and then I went on the internet and people gave their opinion on that trial,” Eilish told NME recently. “Who cares about shit? Women are losing rights over their bodies, so why are we talking about celebrity divorce lawsuits? Who cares about shit? Let them find out for themselves. The Internet bothers me the shit of times “.
Eilish’s NME interview was posted online on June 24, the same day the Supreme Court officially overturned Roe v. The ruling effectively puts an end to federal protections of abortion rights and leaves the issue of abortion rights to states, many of which are expected to ban abortion. The writ had been on the wall since a draft majority opinion leaked to Politico in May that singled out the Supreme Court ruling, which was in the middle of the Depp-Heard defamation trial. Despite the leak, Eilish saw the Internet more focused on Depp and Heard.
Eilish’s song “TV”, which did not appear on her latest album “Happier Than Ever”, included an investigation into the Internet’s obsession with the trial, and the singer did not want to wait for her fans they would listen to him. “I just wanted to get back to my roots: get a little guitar song out again and feel like I used to,” he said. “I just missed that feeling and I missed making a song that no one had heard yet.”
As for his eventual third album, Eilish just told NME this: “If I think about it too much, I’ll be scared. I don’t want the next album to be a specific aesthetic, so ‘Happier Than Ever’ was very of a style for a while.For the next one I want it to be current and be what I am feeling at the moment ”.
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