Billie Eilish

Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell emerged from Los Angeles bedroom pop to become the defining voice of Gen Z malaise. Recording with her brother Finneas in their childhood home, she crafted whispered confessionals over bass-heavy minimalism that rejected pop's traditional bombast. Her 2019 debut When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? made her the youngest artist to sweep the Grammy Awards' four major categories, a commercial and critical vindication of her aesthetic.

Her music traffics in ASMR intimacy and gothic adolescent imagery, drawing from trip-hop, electropop, and the skeletal production of modern hip-hop. Songs like "bad guy" and "bury a friend" paired nursery rhyme melodies with unsettling sonic textures, creating a deliberate cognitive dissonance. Subsequent albums Happier Than Ever (2021) and Hit Me Hard and Soft (2024) showcased greater dynamic range whilst maintaining her signature melancholy.

Eilish's studied anti-image became its own iconography: baggy clothes as armour against objectification, neon roots, deadpan affect. She transformed teenage anxiety into stadium-filling spectacle, proof that vulnerability sells.