Patricia Grisafi
Billie Eilish premiered a new song called “TV” at a Manchester concert earlier in the month including the lyric: “The internet’s gone wild watching movie stars on trial/While they’re overturning Roe v. Wade.”
Well, they did overturn Roe v. Wade. And the trial she’s talking about? Obviously the defamation case between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.
Billie! The two things are connected! Women who are in abusive relationships are more likely to be coerced into unwanted pregnancies!
As the Internet says, we can be upset about multiple things! And there are so many things to be upset about.
“I was in this state of depression, losing my own rights to my own body, and then I’d go on the internet and it would be people giving their take on this trial,” Eilish recently said to NME. “Who f*cking gives a f*ck? Women are losing rights for their bodies, so why are we talking about celebrities’ divorce trials? Who gives a sh*t? Let them figure it out on their own. The internet bothers the sh*t out of me sometimes.”
I mean, we’re talking about defamation and abuse. These are all issues intimately connected to concepts of bodily autonomy and women’s rights.
The interview was published today, the same day the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Now, federal protection of abortion rights are officially over, leaving control to the states. We know several states are ready to ban abortions completely.
“TV” was not featured on Eilish’s most recent album, “Happier Than Ever.” Of the song, she also said, “I just wanted to go back to my roots: to put a little guitar song back out, and feel like how I used to. I was just missing that feeling and missed doing a song that no-one had heard yet.”
Eilish also talked about her third album: “If I think too much about it I’ll freak myself out. I don’t want the next album to be a specific aesthetic, in the way that ‘Happier Than Ever’ was very one-style for a while. For the next one I want it to be current and to be whatever I’m feeling at the time.”
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