Failure like success solely in your head: Billie Eilish

By IANS

LOS ANGELES: Singer Billie Eilish is among the world’s best-selling musicians, however admits she struggles with the extraordinary scrutiny of social media.

She stated: “I’ve felt like a failure lots in my life. And it is very easy to really feel like a failure when so many individuals are taking a look at you and telling you you’re one. It will be laborious to not consider them.

“I grew up with the internet. I use social media for the same reasons everyone else does, and you come across these videos saying you’re ugly and you suck and you’re terrible and that makes me feel like a failure.”

She added: “There are other things too, more concrete things, like when I disappoint myself, when I don’t feel how I said I was going to feel, or do the things I said to myself I was going to do… but failure is an interesting thing because, like success, it’s really only in your head.”

The ‘Bad Guy’ hitmaker truly feels that success and failure is all about “perspective”, reviews femalefirst.co.uk.

Speaking to i-D journal, Eilish stated: “You can literally physically fail at something but it can still be a success, and vice versa. Success and failure are all only about your perspective.”

Eilish additionally thinks that expectations of her as a musician and as a job mannequin ought to stay “realistic”.

She stated: “It needs to be life like. The downside is when folks have unattainable function fashions, or dream of an unattainable life, or an unattainable face and an unattainable physique, and that is not wholesome, for teenagers particularly. We’re all actual folks.

Eilish stated that when folks see celebrities on the web, or social media, they do not see them as ‘human beings’.

She added: “And I catch myself doing this too — they see them as characters. When really we’re all just random people in our cars trying to keep it together.”