Did Billie Eilish Shade Taylor Swift With ‘Wasteful’ Comment? – Hollywood Life

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Billie Eilish‘s latest interview about the music industry is having Swifties buzzing. The 22-year-old Oscar winner emphasized how “wasteful” it is for “some artists” to release vinyl records. Though she didn’t point out any celeb by title, some followers consider that Billie was referring to Taylor Swift, because the 34-year-old Eras Tour pop star introduced a number of editions of her upcoming album, The Tortured Poets Department.

“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 advised Billboard on Thursday, March 28. “It’s so wasteful, and it’s irritating to me that we’re still at a point where you care that much about your numbers and you care that much about making money — and it’s all your favorite artists doing that s**t.”

The “What Was I Made For?” hitmaker additional careworn that she “can’t even expressed” how “wasteful it is” for prime artists within the enterprise to launch a number of vinyl editions.

“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,” Billie mentioned, including, “And then it’s some of the biggest artists in the world making f**king 40 different vinyl packages that have a different unique thing just to get you to keep buying more.”

Billie then recalled watching The Hunger Games not too long ago, which led her to consider this drawback, “because it’s like, we’re all going to do it because [it’s] the only way to play the game. It’s just accentuating this already kind of messed up way of this industry working.”

Earlier this 12 months, Taylor introduced the information of her upcoming album on the Grammys. During her worldwide tour, the “Love Story” artist introduced a number of new editions of the album: “The Bolter” and “Black Dog.”

As for Billie, she launched her 2021 album, Happier Than Ever, in vinyl, however the a number of variations had been offered with recycled black vinyl and had been wrapped in sugar cane-made shrink wrap. The coloured editions of her album had been offered with different recycled supplies.