Nobody can drag Billie Eilish down… until you’re the burden strapped to her through the photograph shoot for her Hit Me Exhausting and Tender album cowl artwork.
The Grammy-winning singer revealed on Tuesday’s episode of The Late Present with Stephen Colbert that the photograph for her third studio album, launched Could 17, was in truth “very actual” and never photoshopped.
“This was the day after this final Grammys, truly. I had gone to sleep at 7 a.m.,” Eilish recalled of the day she shot the art work. “I awakened, I dyed my hair black — it was like vivid pink — I dyed it black that day. Then I went to this random place in Santa Clarita or some nonsense. There’s a tank on this large place, and it was, like, 10 toes deep. And I popped my little ass in there, and I used to be in there for six hours.”
The “Lunch” singer famous that she was “absolutely clothed” whereas underwater, sporting “massive lengthy pants, large shorts, a thermal long-sleeve, a button-up flannel, a tie, rings, arm heaters, bracelet and a weight. I had a weight strapped to me,” which was used to maintain her down within the water.
Host Stephen Colbert proceeded to ask simply whose thought this was to start with, quipping, “‘Guys, it might be so cool if I might virtually die.’” However Eilish took full credit score for the artistic path, including, “Dude, I’ve carried out it so many instances — virtually died in these shoots. It’s like I must endure.”
The Oscar winner continued, “You recognize what it truly is? It’s not like, ‘What can I do this would be the most uncomfortable that I might probably dream of?’ It’s extra that I take into consideration the visible earlier than I take into consideration the way it’s gonna make me really feel. So, it’s like okay, I wish to be absolutely dressed, underwater, eyes open, the wrong way up, after which I take care of how horrible it’s.”
The “What Was I Made For?” artist additionally famous that she didn’t have a nostril plug throughout all the shoot, so she was “mainly waterboarding myself for six hours,” drawing laughter from the viewers.
“A whole lot of my inspirations for the visuals on this album have been optical illusion-type issues,” she concluded. “Issues that simply make you query it or give it some thought for longer.”
Hit Me Exhausting and Tender, which Eilish labored on along with her brother and longtime collaborator Finneas, options 10 tracks.