Grammy-award winning singer Billie Eilish had a music world nightmare come to life for her this past week — she inadvertently ticked off the Swifties. To draw the ire of Taylor Swift’s fanbase is akin to a curse in our modern digital Hades-scape, and she did so by airing a grievance that I myself have expressed in these very pages — although she did so without naming Swift directly.
The comments in question came in a March 28 interview with Billboard focusing on Eilish’s sustainability efforts — both in her personal life and her continuing struggle to make the music and touring biz more environmentally friendly.
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