Billie Eilish opens up about doubting herself as a vocalist

Across the interview, Mason talks to Eilish about her accolades such as being nominated at the 2025 Grammy Awards for her latest album, HIT ME HARD AND SOFT, as well as winning an Oscar for the Barbie soundtrack song, "What Was I Made For?". Despite all of this, at the age of 22, she is now only beginning to accept herself as a vocalist.

"It was really this special thing that was mine, and I also was kind of told for so many years that I wasn't a singer because a singer has a big powerhouse voice – the whole internet [told me that]," she explains as to why she never thought of herself as a singer. "Because of my whole insecurity of being like, 'I'm not a big singer, I'm not a good singer', I was worried that a singing teacher would tell me that I wasn't a good singer."

"I think I have that thing where you don't wanna try something new because you don't wanna be bad at it," she continues, explaining why vocal lessons isn't something she tried until later in life.

Elaborating on why this must be, she offers: "The first thing that comes to my mind is being the only girl in a sport. Being a young girl – an athletic young girl – was literally the scariest part of my whole life, to this day, because when you're a girl and you're bad at something once, then all the boys think you're bad at that forever."