Billie Eilish has revealed that she “doesn’t look at” social media anymore.
The 21-year-old singer said that she’s “deleted” all social media apps from her phone in a new clip from a forthcoming interview on Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend podcast.
“I don’t look at it anymore,” she said. “I deleted it all off my phone, which is such a huge deal for me. ‘Cause dude, you didn’t have the internet to grow up with.
“For me, it was such a big part of – not my childhood, I wasn’t an iPad baby, thank god – but honestly, I feel like I grew up in the perfect time of the internet that it wasn’t so internet-y, I had such a childhood, and I was doing stuff all the time.”
Eilish added: “And then when I became a pre-teen, there were iPhones, and as I got a little older, there was all of what has become, but being a pre-teen and a teenager on the internet, those were my people, I was one of them.”
The Happier Than Ever singer spoke about how she isn’t comfortable with looking at posts about her.
“I’m a person who goes on the internet… And to change nothing about the person I am or the life that I live, and to just keep doing what I do over the years, and slowly the videos that I’m watching and the things that I see on the internet are about me. ‘Eww, stinky.’ I don’t like that,” she said.
“That’s the other thing that freaks me out about the internet is how gullible it makes you. Anything I read on the internet, I believe. Me. I know for a fact that’s stupid, and I shouldn’t do that because I have proof it’s not all true; almost none of it’s true.”
In 2020, Eilish shared a powerful video about body shaming in which she criticises the way people on the internet scrutinise the way she chooses to dress.
