Billie Eilish Drags ‘Big Artists’ , for ‘Wasteful Packaging’ of Their Albums.<br />Eilish discussed her passion for sustainability in an interview with 'Billboard.'.<br />We live in this day and age where, <br />for some reason, it’s very important <br />to some artists to make all sorts of <br />different vinyl and packaging … which <br />ups the sales and ups the numbers and gets <br />them more money and gets them more…, Billie Eilish, to 'Billboard'.<br />“I can’t even express to you <br />how wasteful it is,” Eilish said.<br />I find it really frustrating as somebody <br />who really goes out of my way to be <br />sustainable and do the best that I <br />can and try to involve everybody in <br />my team in being sustainable — , Billie Eilish, to 'Billboard'.<br />... and then it’s some of the biggest <br />artists in the world making f------ <br />40 different vinyl packages that <br />have a different unique thing just <br />to get you to keep buying more, Billie Eilish, to 'Billboard'.<br />It’s so wasteful, and it’s irritating to me <br />that we’re still at a point where you care <br />that much about your numbers and you care <br />that much about making money — and it’s <br />all your favorite artists doing that s---, Billie Eilish, to 'Billboard'.<br />Eilish's 2021 record, 'Happier Than Ever,' was released in eight variants, but they were created with recycled materials, 'Page Six' reports. .<br />Many people speculated that Eilish's <br />comments were aimed at Taylor Swift, prompting Swifties to come to the pop star's defense.<br />Many people speculated that Eilish's <br />comments were aimed at Taylor Swift, prompting Swifties to come to the pop star's defense.<br />The dig at Taylor and other <br />similar artists about charts and <br />numbers was unnecessary and <br />detracts from her original point. , Swiftie, via X.<br />Billie herself put out multiple <br />vinyl variants (sustainably) so <br />her point about chart and <br />number obsession is hypocritical, Swiftie, via X
