Interviews

NME first met Billie in New York in October 2017, a couple of months after her first and only EP to date, ‘Don’t Smile At Me’, was released. Things were a little different back then. she was polite and entertaining, but still settling into the touring mentality and adjusting to being in a new city every other night. When we travel to her hometown of

LA to meet her again in December, there’s an unspoken acknowledgment that a seismic shift has taken place in her life and career

“Highland Park has become become popular now but growing up there, it was not like that at all,” she says of her upbringing. “There were gunshots and shit, y’know – it was really sketchy. People just have a different vision of how I was raised and that’s not correct. They think I’m just a little rich girl from LA.”