Billie Eilish drags artists like Taylor Swift for being 'wasteful'

29 March 2024 , 16:08

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Billie is all about sustainability (Image: AFP via Getty Images)

Billie Eilish is not here for the way certain artists up their album sales.

The What Was I Made For? singer discussed how she has pushed for sustainability throughout her career with Billboard and called out artists that use wasteful and inefficient techniques to package and distribute physical albums and vinyl records.

She said: "We live in this day and age where, for some reason, it’s very important to some artists to make all sorts of different vinyl and packaging … which ups the sales and ups the numbers and gets them more money and gets them more..."

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Billie Eilish drags artists like Taylor Swift for being 'wasteful' (AFP via Getty Images)

She continued: "I can’t even express to you how wasteful it is. It is right in front of our faces and people are just getting away with it left and right, and I find it really frustrating as somebody who really goes out of my way to be sustainable and do the best that I can and try to involve everybody in my team in being sustainable."

Billie added: "And then it’s some of the biggest artists in the world making f*****g 40 different vinyl packages that have a different unique thing just to get you to keep buying more. It’s so wasteful, and it’s irritating to me that we’re still at a point where you care that much about your numbers and you care that much about making money — and it’s all your favorite artists doing that s**t."

Taylor Swift sells different vinyl versions of the same album (AFP via Getty Images)

Even though the Oscar winning singer did not name any "big names," artists like Taylor Swift is known to create different versions of vinyls. Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) holds the record for the largest sales week on vinyl in U.S. history, according to Forbes. Her upcoming album, Tortured Poets Department, will be releasing on April 19 with four vinyl versions. Each one will have the same 16 songs but each version will have a different bonus track and artwork.

Billie's Happier Than Ever vinyl released in 2021 and it came in eight different versions. The black versions were made of 100 percent recycled black vinyl and wrapped in shrink wrap made from sugar cane, according to Billboard. The colored versions were also created with recycled materials. In an effort to reduce carbon emissions brought on by the music industry, REVERB's Music Decarbonization Project was also funded in part by Billie.

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