NO MUSIC ON A DEAD PLANET

IN THE INEVITABLE 'Best of' lists, the debut album from seventeen year old Billie Eilish has been circling near the top of most of them. When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, released in March, was the most streamed album of 2019.

The album deals with issues pressing in on Billie's generation, including drug addiction, mental health, suicide and climate change.

The climate crisis is an issue that Billie brings up often. Earlier this month she spoke to the LA Times about her growing frustration that not enough was being done to fight climate change. She has little time for politicians who she says are more interested in protecting the oil companies and the banks. But she speaks highly of Greta Thunberg and the movement she has inspired.

'It’s weird…It feels like we’re living in a movie that you’d watch where the world is like ending. We could stop it, but we’re not going to because everybody’s too lazy …We’re about to die if we don’t change. I’ve had a million dreams about the world ending…It makes you realise how nothing we all are, and how little everyone’s lives matter because the world itself, if the world dies, we’re all gone. I want to have children and I want them to have children. That’s possibly not going to happen, and I hate it.'

At the American Music Awards she wore a T-shirt emblazoned with the message, NO MUSIC ON A DEAD PLANET.