Billie Eilish is asking out artists for re-releasing their music in varied onerous copy types — and whereas she would not names names … many are taking this as a shot at Taylor Swift.
The singer did an interview with Billboard — and he or she touched on this challenge bluntly … saying there are numerous “big artists” who re-release all of their music a number of occasions, together with on vinyl, and Billie thinks it is a shameless money seize … to not point out dangerous for the setting.
She says … “We live in this day and age where, for some reason, it’s very important to some artists to make all sorts of different vinyl and packaging … which ups the sales and ups the numbers and gets them more money and gets them more.”
Billie continues … “I can’t even express to you how wasteful it is. It is right in front of our faces and people are just getting away with it left and right, and I find it really frustrating as somebody who really goes out of my way to be sustainable and do the best that I can and try to involve everybody in my team in being sustainable.”
She provides, “[A]nd then it’s some of the biggest artists in the world making f***ing 40 different vinyl packages that have a different unique thing just to get you to keep buying more.”
Billie finishes by saying it is irritating to her that some artists appear to care extra about their numbers — and their backside strains — by repeatedly partaking on this follow.
When you’re unfamiliar … Taylor is infamous for releasing a number of variations of her albums — one thing her fan base eats up at each alternative. Different artists do that, too, after all … however Billie definitely appears to be taking goal at T-Swift right here, that is the sensation anyway.
BTW, Tay Tay is already set to do that once more … dropping 4 variations of her new album quickly.
Billie herself has additionally launched varied onerous copy variations of a few of her work — however she’s gone out of her means to verify vinyl information are made with recyclable supplies, and that the packaging she makes use of is eco-friendly herself.
Feels like Billie’s received a bone to choose right here … and lots of are perceiving this as a not-so-subtle bashing of Taylor’s enterprise mannequin. Makes ya marvel … new beef alert???