Billie Eilish isn't stressing over the Grammys. She's busy worrying about the end of the world
LOS ANGELES - In a basement recording studio in her hometown of Highland Park, Billie Eilish was thinking about climate change and the end of the world, and how she might well live to see it.
"It's weird," said the 17-year-old electro-goth singer, one of the biggest and most important pop acts to emerge in a generation. "It feels like we're living in a movie that you'd watch where the world is like ending. We could stop it, but we're not going to because everybody's too lazy.
"But listen," Eilish said, her toxic-green hair and macabre sweatshirt looking ominous as she leaned back in her studio chair. Her mother, Maggie Baird, nodded along from an adjacent couch.
"We're about to die if we don't change."
Professionally, of course, Eilish is doing fine. She's had the best year of her life, even. The L.A. native is the youngest artist ever to sweep nominations in the big four categories - album, song, record and best new artist - at the Grammys. Her debut Darkroom/Interscope album, "When We All Fall Asleep, Where
