Tech & Science Daily: Nasa on their Moon mission, behind the scenes.Billie Eilish isn’t the real deal? The truth about music industry ‘plants’.Why can’t it be possible to be supportive of a young woman’s autonomy, while still being conscious that the music industry is more than capable of preying on her vulnerabilities? READ MORE On the other extreme end, supporters of her new look have slammed people with valid concerns as being unfeminist for questioning her sudden U-turn. Critics on the internet have unfairly accused her of selling out and being strategic in her approach to bare all, forgetting that the strategising is often left to artist management. But Eilish, who is 19, feels differently. Any other starlet who may have shown more ease with this wouldn’t have caused as much of a stir. What makes Eilish’s transformation so jarring is how vocal she’s been about her discomfort with being sexualised. Whether it’s through dodgy record label heads with questionable agendas, or older men in showbiz who are seemingly allergic to women their own age, the entertainment industry is one that lies in wait for girls to come of age.
The implication is unsettlingly perverse and as we all now know from the New York Times’s Framing Britney Spears documentary, the singer’s youth was used against her for all types of exploitation. I often think about Britney Spears on the cover of Rolling Stone in 1999, 17-years-old and splayed out on a bed in her underwear next to a stuffed toy. One magazine cover doth not an image overhaul make, but there’s something to be said about how quickly young women in the music industry go from age appropriate to sex symbols within moments of turning “legal”.
Of course, the internet erupted with lots of people loving the look but others weren’t so sure. Gone are the baggy clothes and acid green hair - instead she’s almost unrecognisable in old Hollywood-style blonde waves and figure-hugging corsetry. He latest British Vogue cover features Billie Eilish as we’ve never seen her before. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT.Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT.