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How Billie Eilish rewrote the pop rules

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At 24 years old, Billie Eilish has two Academy Awards, is the fastest female artist to reach 10 billion Spotify streams, and is in advanced talks to make her film acting debut as the lead in a Sylvia Plath adaptation. That's the kind of resume most artists spend decades building. Eilish assembled hers from a bedroom in Los Angeles before she was old enough to rent a car.

This episode traces the full arc of Billie Eilish's career, from her childhood in the Highland Park neighborhood of LA — where she was homeschooled alongside her brother Finneas O'Connell and immersed in songwriting from an early age — to her emergence as the youngest artist ever to sweep all four major Grammy categories in a single night. We examine how she and Finneas built a global phenomenon from a home studio, producing music that sounded nothing like the polish ... 

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