I’ve seen middle aged IT blokes throw a strop when someone has ‘photoshopped’ them for comedic or nefarious effect …
(Even ‘Cold War Steve’ says he keeps expecting lawyers to get in touch over his satirical collages featuring ‘celebrities’ etc!)
But I’m kinda with Billie on this one – she has made a stance as a young women, not to be defined by her ‘body type’ etc which is quite refreshing I think in todays online world and seemingly inspirational for many of her fans. All she has done [as far as I can see] is voice her objection to her image being manipulated like that.
Ok, so her target audience isn’t perhaps Singletrackworld, but her Glastonbury & Leeds/Reading sets went down a storm. Recent album is good in places – standout track being ‘Bury a Friend’ which reminds me a bit of the Doors ‘People are Strange’ and has been critically aclaimed by the likes of Portishead.
It may not fall within your purview but that probably says more about you than her and her fans. I didn’t know anything about Ariana Grande until the tragic Manchester incident.
Billie Eilish’s music has an occasional dark brooding malevolence that perhaps encapsulates the zeitgeist of being a teenager or young person in todays world.
Oh … and the child bit? … nope – she’s a young person not a child.
She’s old enough to get on stage in front of thousands of people and ‘eff & jeff’.