Billie Eilish Called 'Jealous' And 'Miserable' After She Seemingly Insulted Taylor Swift

Publish date: 2024-08-16

Highlights

Billie Eilish criticized wasteful practices in the music industry in her fight for sustainability.
Claudia and Jackie Oshry lashed out at Billie, accusing her of jealousy towards Taylor.
Billie clarified her statement, emphasizing industry-wide issues and her own involvement in releasing variants.

Billie Eilish has always been very outspoken in her environmental activism. She rose to fame at a very young age, but from what she shared, even as a child, she was already very interested in environmental causes, as her parents encouraged the family to have a sustainable lifestyle, which she tries to do in her career as much as she can.

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In a recent interview, she slammed the music industry for being "wasteful", and despite not naming anyone, some people took that as her dissing Taylor Swift. Podcasters Claudia and Jackie Oshry were especially angry, and called her names in one of the episodes of "The Toast" podcast.

Claudia And Jackie Oshry Criticized Billie Eilish

Controversial podcasters Claudia and Jackie Oshry decided to address in an episode of their podcast certain comments Billie Eilish made not long ago in an interview, and they weren't nice about it.

The "Bad Guy" singer talked about "wasteful" artists and their packaging process, which a lot of people took as Billie Eilish taking a dig at Taylor Swift, even though she never mentioned any names.

Claudia and Jackie Oshry spoke about it on their podcast "The Toast", with Claudia saying "She might as well have said 'that blonde girl whose name rhymes with Faylor.' I don’t think we could speculate this to be about anyone else." She then added that Billie was probably "jealous" of Taylor and that's why she said those things.

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They also said that Billie Eilish was not crediting Taylor Swift for how much she'd helped the vinyl industry, which was in the decline. "A whole part of this conversation that Billie's not talking about is how Taylor has completely resurrected a dead industry. You can’t be the best at everything: you can’t be the most sustainable and be resurrecting industries and be a titan of industry."

Something else they criticized was the 22-year-old singer wearing the "Artists for Ceasefire" pin, saying she shouldn't get involved in politics. "This girl is so dreadful and she’s always been dreadful," said Jackie. "But now she’s sticking her nose in some things where it doesn’t belong. Dreadful, miserable girl."

Billie Eilish's Alleged Attack On Taylor Swift

While Billie Eilish tried to make a comment on the wasteful nature of the music industry, a lot of people took her criticism as a dig at Taylor Swift. The young singer was talking about the importance of building a sustainable industry, and said she was frustrated with the way some big artists manage their packaging.

"I can’t even express to you how wasteful it is," she complained. "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 — 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."

Following the backlash from people who thought this was an attack on Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish posted a statement clarifying what she meant. "It would be so awesome if people would stop putting words into my mouth and actually read what I said in that Billboard article," she wrote.

"I wasn't singling anyone out, these are industry-wide systemic issues. & when it comes to variants, so many artists release them - including ME! which I clearly state in the article."