![]() But like a lot of things in her life, it’s not quite that simple. The title is no fiction: She has, in fact, felt happier than she ever had before. She’s found other ways to process her feelings, namely through writing her second album, Happier Than Ever, which is due out July 30th. It’s been a while since she’s made the cookies (“You’re seeing history,” she teases). “We kept for a while, then we were like ‘We don’t need this,’ ” Eilish says. Her mom’s added a blue rug to the bedroom and sleeps there with their cat, Misha. There’s just no equipment,” Billie insists as she greets me in her kitchen, gathering ingredients and utensils for the cookies she wants to bake. Instead, the siblings’ mom, Maggie Baird, has taken over the space. For starters, contemporary pop’s most famous home studio, set up in the childhood bedroom of Billie’s brother Finneas, is no longer a studio. Signs of home-schooling linger in common areas, like an old-fashioned pencil sharpener attached to the wall and dingy supplies precariously placed on a desk.īut look closer, and plenty is different. The O’Connell family’s rescue dog, Pepper, trudges through the backyard, now joined by Eilish’s year-old rescue, Shark, a gray pit bull. It’s a location familiar to any Eilish fan, and at first glance on an absurdly beautiful day in April, not much appears to have changed about the house in the couple of years since it became famous, along with its teenage occupant. ![]() In fact, it’s legendary: the place where a prodigal teenager and her older brother recorded the album that made Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell the queen of Gen-Z pop. ![]() From the outside, the house isn’t terribly different from others on the block: a cozy bungalow in L.A.’s Highland Park neighborhood with an old lilac tree blooming near the entrance.
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