One TikTok person accused Billie Eilish of “highkey predatory” lyrics in her Charli XCX collaboration remix of “Guess,” happening to accuse her of “decreasing ladies to mere objects” and solely pretending “she’s truly into them.”
Finneas is not going to face on the sidelines as random trolls on social media assault his little sister Billie Eilish for … present as she is.
The newest assaults on the “Dangerous Man” singer got here after she dropped a verse on Charli XCX’s “Guess” remix. The drop was a shock, and a rarity for Eilish as she’s not recognized for visitor appearances on different tracks.
But it surely was the lyrics she offered that reportedly set one TikToker off, who accused the singer of “queerbaiting” — an accusation that is been chasing her for years — and “decreasing ladies to mere objects, all in an effort to persuade the lots she’s truly into them.”
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Getting slightly extra particular, the person purportedly known as Eilish “highkey predatory” in the direction of her musical collaborator in a since-removed video, as reported by Billboard. The road that’s getting known as out most has Eilish saying, “Charli likes boys, however she is aware of I would hit it / Charli, name me when you’re with it.”
Finneas jumped into the feedback within the since-removed TikTok, per Billboard, with a scathing takedown. “What a take you little clown,” he wrote. “I obtained to look at your complete web slam my sister for queer-baiting for a complete yr when in actuality, you had been all forcing her to label and out herself.”
As for accusations that she was “highkey predatory” to Charli XCX, it does not appear that she’s all that bothered. When Eilish shared her verse to her Instagram, a euphoric Charli jumped into the feedback.
“Billieeeeeeee!!!!!!! ahhhh tysm for being on this monitor i’m past honored. love and respect perpetually!!! you’re one in every of a form xxxxxx,” she wrote. To not point out it was a clip from the music video that they filmed. Collectively.
In December 2023, Eilish confirmed to Selection in an interview, as lined by TMZ, that she had come out in a cowl story for the journal, quipping that she “did not understand individuals did not know.” In a means, although, that was her precise popping out because the article itself left issues extra imprecise.
Within the article, the singer mentioned, “I’ve by no means actually felt like I might relate to women very nicely. I like them a lot. I like them as individuals. I am interested in them as individuals. I am interested in them for actual.” Social media, after all, instantly picked up on that, with some speculating she was popping out, whereas others continued the “queerbaiting” narrative.
In her Instagram Tales on the time, Billboard notes she wrote concerning the ongoing dialogue, “i like girls and boys go away me alone about it please actually who cares.”
Eilish obtained slightly extra direct about her sexuality within the NSWF lyrics to her monitor “Lunch,” which she spoke with Rolling Stone about in April. She informed the outlet, “I have been in love with ladies for my complete life, however I simply did not perceive — till, final yr, I spotted I wished my face in a vagina.”
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She went on to say that even speaking about her sexuality like this was one thing that she by no means supposed to do, till it was type of pressured on her by social media and the press. “I used to be by no means planning on speaking about my sexuality ever, in one million years. It’s actually irritating to me that it got here up.”
Of being pressured into the dialog, Eilish informed the outlet, “The entire world immediately determined who I used to be, and I didn’t get to say something or management any of it … It takes some time to seek out your self, and I feel it’s actually unfair, the best way that the web bullies you into speaking about who you’re and what you’re.”
Followers have been targeted on Eilish’s sexuality — and her physique — since nicely earlier than she was of authorized age. Her saggy model had followers guessing and speculating about her determine beneath to a disturbing diploma, at occasions.
She admitted to insecurities as a part of the explanation she lined up, but in addition she did not need her curves to be a part of the dialog about her as an artist. And whereas she did not essentially need her sexuality on the market, she’s since mentioned that being extra open about it and exploring it has helped her be taught to like her physique extra.
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