Billie Eilish‘s newest interview concerning the music business is having Swifties buzzing. The 22-year-old Oscar winner emphasised how “wasteful” it’s for “some artists” to launch vinyl information. Although she didn’t point out any movie star by title, some followers imagine that Billie was referring to Taylor Swift, because the 34-year-old Eras Tour pop star introduced a number of editions of her upcoming album, The Tortured Poets Division.
“We dwell at the present time the place, for some motive, it’s essential to some artists to make all types of various vinyl and packaging … which ups the gross sales and ups the numbers and will get them more cash and will get them extra …” Billie instructed Billboard on Thursday, March 28. “It’s so wasteful, and it’s irritating to me that we’re nonetheless at some extent the place you care that a lot about your numbers and also you care that a lot about making a living — and it’s all of your favourite artists doing that s**t.”
The “What Was I Made For?” hitmaker additional harassed that she “can’t even expressed” how “wasteful it’s” for high artists within the enterprise to launch a number of vinyl editions.
“It’s proper in entrance of our faces, and individuals are simply getting away with it left and proper, and I discover it actually irritating as any person who actually goes out of my method to be sustainable and do one of the best that I can and attempt to contain everyone in my staff in being sustainable,” Billie mentioned, including, “After which it’s among the greatest artists on this planet making f**king 40 completely different vinyl packages which have a distinct distinctive factor simply to get you to maintain shopping for extra.”
Billie then recalled watching The Starvation Video games not too long ago, which led her to consider this drawback, “as a result of it’s like, we’re all going to do it as a result of [it’s] the one method to play the sport. It’s simply accentuating this already sort of tousled means of this business working.”
Earlier this yr, Taylor introduced the information of her upcoming album on the Grammys. Throughout her worldwide tour, the “Love Story” artist introduced a number of new editions of the album: “The Bolter” and “Black Canine.”
As for Billie, she launched her 2021 album, Happier Than Ever, in vinyl, however the a number of variations have been offered with recycled black vinyl and have been wrapped in sugar cane-made shrink wrap. The coloured editions of her album have been offered with different recycled supplies.