Billie Eilish Opens Up About How Conversations at Therapy Influenced Her Songwriting

The “Bad Guy”
hitmaker Billie Eilish reveals how therapy has helped her greatly in the
songwriting process. Billie sees a therapist once a week, and she has also
encouraged everyone to follow suit as she explained the benefits of opening up
to someone.

Chatting up
with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, she said that she genuinely believed that
everyone, every human on earth should go to therapy despite what they felt
about their life; happy or anything.

"Anyone
should go, even if they think their life is just amazing and perfect, and
nothing's wrong. Every single person should go.”

The 19-year-old
Grammy award winner who has been working on her highly anticipated second album
“Happier Than Ever” talked about how she drew inspiration for her lyrics from
conversations with her therapist. Amazing right?

Billie also
added that it made her talk through things and think about them constantly. She
realized that she talks through things in therapy that she doesn’t even think
about in her life. Therapy has enabled her to tap into her creative potential.

She said, "I think it helps my creative process because it makes me not word- vomit, and it makes me not have everything up here."

"And then
over the week I'm like thinking about, 'Wow, that thing we talked about in
therapy, I should write about that. That's really interesting.'

"And it's
really helpful, it brings it out of you and it's really necessary."

Billie also
noted that she went through a lot of "self-reflection" on her new
album which is due to be released on July 30, 2021.

"I was realizing things about my life that I had never even processed and realized that I had never processed. And the same with things that I witnessed around me and saw happen. And just talking through it and getting it out of me, and then you know, making it sound good."

It’s great to see celebrities advocating for mental health which might aid in reducing the stigma. With the threat of the third wave of pandemic looming large, many have been facing a mental health crisis that may have affected many areas of their lives. Some may experience writer’s block or any block in their creativity which makes it necessary to seek help to improve their professional lives as well. 

Can’t wait for the release of her new album!

--Silviya Yohannan