Shadowing Practice: Billie Eilish: Same Interview, The Eighth Year | Vanity Fair - Learn English Speaking with Video
Les maken...
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Once again, like it happens every year, I thought I had more time.
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And then it's October 18th.
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Again.
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My name is Billie Eilish.
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Billie Eilish.
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Billie Eilish.
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Billie Eilish.
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Billie Eilish.
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Billie Eilish.
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I'm Billie Eilish.
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I'm looking at all the frozen years past.
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Love you all.
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I'm Billie Eilish.
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I think it's October 18th.
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It's October 18th.
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October 18th.
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I'm 15.
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16. 17.
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18. 19.
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20. 21.
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I'm 22.
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This is the first year in my life that I keep forgetting how old I am.
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257,000.
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6.3 million.
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40.7.
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67.5.
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94.1 million followers.
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106. About 110.
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120 million?
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Another year.
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Seven years.
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This is the eighth video, right?
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But it was seven years ago today that we started this.
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We didn't put out a video last year, it's true.
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A big, big year.
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Just the whole Barbie thing.
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Swarm, tour.
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I finally played Brazil, labyrinth.
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Yeah, live at the O2.
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Yeah, Coachella, bad guy, went diamond.
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I'm back on my bullshit, I wanna do more.
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What does that mean, I wanna do more?
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Wow, why was I yelling?
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I've spent a lot of time in the last, like this summer, looking at videos and photos from like this month.
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Since then, so much has happened.
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It's nonsense.
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I have the most monthly listeners right on Spotify in the entire world.
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So I surpassed 100 million monthly listeners.
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And then now I am the most streamed artist in the world on Spotify.
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I released my album, went on tour again.
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I made so many new friends, adopted another dog.
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It's been a friendship-filled year.
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I and Phineas won an Oscar for, what was I made for?
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I can't even really describe how amazing that was.
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And then it was like we were the youngest people in history to win two or something crazy.
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Ooh, did I predict it?
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Am I gonna win the Oscar?
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I don't know.
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We're manifesting, but we're also not gonna be disappointed and angry if I don't.
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And I do think objectively, it is one of the best songs I've ever made.
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I don't, I think it's crazy that we would win again.
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Again.
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Yeah, I kind of can't believe that happened again.
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I feel proud of it and I'm proud to have made it.
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Proud that it is of me.
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Wanna rescue some horses?
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Maybe skydive?
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Like a bungee jump off a cliff or something?
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I really wanna do stuff like that.
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Things that I could die because of.
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I want to adventure so bad.
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I do wanna skydive, haven't done that yet.
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Be doing racing, be doing stunt driving.
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I definitely want some more piercings.
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I want some more tattoos.
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Another dog, be hanging out with your family, be making new friends, be having new friends, be having good sex.
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Got there.
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I've done nothing but make friends all year and gotten
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so close with people that I wasn't with before
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and became friends with people I used to be friends with again and just like, it's just been a year filled with friendship which honestly,
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even though I was saying a lot of things that I want to do, that was the real, that was like the thing
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that I wanted to do and I really did it and it was awesome.
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And yes, I've had a lot of good sex, so you're welcome, Billy.
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I want you to have fixed the little chip.
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You can see it.
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2018, did it to me.
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And when I'm smiling, my tooth is so ugly whiten those suckers.
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Oh my God.
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I'll have you know, Miss Red Hair, that I chipped another tooth.
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So not only did I not fix the other chip, but I also chipped another one.
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So now I have a chip here and a chip here.
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I also remember really wanting me at that time to fix this little gap as well.
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And I'm in the process.
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Okay.
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God.
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Hopefully you keep doing what you're doing because I hope that what you're doing is good.
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Don't do that thing again where you just do what somebody else wants to do.
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We're not going to let somebody take away my sparkle, as they say.
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Solid advice.
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And I haven't done that.
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That really has stuck in my head.
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And I think that I used to pretend like I was doing that.
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But I think since then, I really have been doing that and I don't, I'm really, I really trust myself.
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And I think like, especially that 2022 girl, I don't think like I trusted her.
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So I really trust myself now and I'm not gonna let any of that stuff happen again.
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And it hasn't happened again.
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And I've been very cautious about that.
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And it's always scary when you, you know, fall in love or you're, you know, seeing someone or you like someone or whatever it is.
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And it's hard to know what the hell's going on because you're kind of blinded by this like curtain of like,
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you know, lust and love and admiration.
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So I was very cautious and have been cautious.
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I'm currently cautious and I've been really a good girl.
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So not disappointing you, I promise.
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Brockhampton.
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Tierra Whack.
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Techno.
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Arlo Parks.
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The Doe, Cake, The Cardigans, Dora, You Know Who, and then also me.
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Deftones, a lot of Deftones, Mazzy Star, this album called Sunburn by Dominic Fike.
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Honestly, I've been listening to a lot of Lady Gaga, like old Lady Gaga, it's so good.
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Alejandro and Poker Face and G-U-Y and Born This Way.
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Fruitvale Station.
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Eye Origins.
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a solid choice.
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Sicario.
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That shit is fire.
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Fruitvale Station.
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That movie's fucking fire though.
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It's a great movie. But, Secretary.
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I feel really good about it.
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I think we're like 85% done.
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Maybe 90.
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It's very genuinely like what I wanted to make, I think.
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It's true.
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Like it was just such a drag.
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It was so punishing, but I feel like it is the best thing that Phineas and I have ever made.
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And I'm so endlessly proud of it.
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Like you don't even know.
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I used to have this feeling with my music, like I liked it, but I was kind of embarrassed for people that I thought were cool to listen to it.
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Like anytime somebody that I thought was really cool said they listened to my song,
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I'd get all embarrassed and nervous and kind of frustrated and annoyed honestly, I'd be like, no, don't listen to that.
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Like, that's private.
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And I think I wasn't as proud of it.
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And I think that now in my life and where I am in my career, I really stand for my music.
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Like, I feel really proud of it.
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There's this one song called Lunch that I think people might like a lot.
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There's a song called Birds of a Feather.
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Damn, I'm giving you titles.
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Whoa.
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My prediction then that I don't know why I didn't even say, but it was what I was thinking then was, I thought Lunch would be the hit, but I also remember being like,
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but watch, Birds of a Feather is going to end up being the real hit.
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Lunch was like big when this album came out.
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And then Birds, Birds is number one.
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Lowest point of the year was probably in January.
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I had a meeting with like my managers and stuff.
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They were showing me the schedule for the whole year.
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And I sat there and was totally silent and totally still and just tears like just streamed down my face.
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That was a horrible, horrible day.
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Gosh, I mean, you know, I was like, I had just turned 17 and life was seeming very dawnful.
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and ended up being even more intense than I ever cried about.
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If I had really known how it would all go, I would have been bawling my eyes out for days,
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but also I would have been excited at the same time.
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The reason I was crying in that story is because I was looking at my touring schedule and it was like,
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you know, it's horrifying to see your life planned out like that two years in advance.
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It's like, especially for like a little girl, I wish that I hadn't had to deal with that,
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but also like my life's fucking awesome and I'm really lucky at the same time.
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Touring used to be something that
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was extremely unpleasant and I would dread it
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and I would only dread it
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and the only reason I you know did it at all was
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because I love performing and I always have and even
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when I dreaded those tours and you know hated the whole process I loved performing at the end of the day
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I had this moment like a year ago or two, a year ago, I think, where I was kind of like,
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touring is, doesn't have to be miserable.
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And I don't have to just sit through it and take it.
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I can make it fun.
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I mean, I'm the fucking boss, for God's sake and I sat down with my touring team and I was like,
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let's figure out all the ways to make this fun
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because this is my job and it's my life and I want to keep doing it and I don't want to,
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you know, be so tortured by it that I end up never doing it again because I'm resentful of, you know.
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And so I've created a, you know,
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surrounding that is just like joyous and filled with
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laughter and love and for the first time in my life once again I'm
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the words are coming out of my mouth that are
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I wish this tour would never end I do have a concert tonight Yeah,
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and I had one last night and the night before that
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and tomorrow I'm on SNL three show nights in a row is like A lot But it's okay.
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It was at the crocodile in Seattle and it was like 500 I think
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Was that me saying that was my biggest show Wow It's impossible to try to to,
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you know, take in and acknowledge even.
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I mean, it's so, I can't really think about it too much because it'll make me cry.
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And then it'll also give me an existential crisis.
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But I can't believe the way my life has gone and where it is now.
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I mean, it's just like the craziest fucking thing in the world.
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No one.
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You listeners don't understand how unpleasant it is to collaborate with people.
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It is not a fun experience.
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The back-to-back.
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I mean, it's Charlie, though.
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But it's Charlie.
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Also, Charlie and I did this collab in the greatest way possible like my ideal way where,
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you know, she put out her amazing album.
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Guess was on the extended version.
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And I heard it cause somebody posted it because it came out and I remember being like,
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hot, wow, such a hot song.
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Wow, that's such a good song.
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God, I wish I had a song like that.
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And I just went on with my life.
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And then like weeks later, Phineas went to her show.
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He was talking with her and one of her teammates or something.
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I don't even know who he was talking to.
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And they just talked about, like, you know, would Billy be down?
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You know, we should do a...
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Billy should hop on something.
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And, like, had a call with her, talked about it.
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It was going to be another song.
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And then we decided on Guess.
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And then, like, she sent us stems.
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Phineas and I went on a hike, came back, went into the studio.
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sat there, played the song, wrote a verse, sent it back.
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That's my dream, that's my dream.
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Phineas came up with like the first line being, don't have to guess the color of your underwear.
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And then I was like, okay, period.
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And then we both just sat there twiddling our thumbs, writing and then wrote that verse, sent it back.
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She sent something back for her, I sent something back for her.
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And then we literally shot a video like two days later
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and then the video got edited the next day and it came out like the next day.
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It was the craziest, fastest, like that is the dream.
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That is the fucking dream.
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Anyway.
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It's a picture of me and Charlie XCX and it has 69,608 likes.
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Oh my God.
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So cute so innocent and just excited about everything.
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Wow, that's so funny.
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Full circle, huh?
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Any person that I have ever been around, I'm dating.
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It's so crazy.
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Literally any man that I am near, it's like that's Billie's boyfriend and that's the person she's dating.
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It's crazy.
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And then it's weird because I'm like, actually photographed more with women and way,
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way more incriminating photos of me with women than men.
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And they're like, Billy and her best friend.
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It's really funny.
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It's so weird.
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I'll see you next time.
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And the time after that, and the time after that.
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Tell I'm an old lady.
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Speaking of old ladies, mom!
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This is my mom.
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She is sick as a booty.
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I don't mind, I can stay here that long.
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I love it.
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I love it too.
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Hello baby.
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His grandma.
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I love you Billy.
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Mommy!
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Come here there.
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Hi.
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I love you so much.
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I love you very much.
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Mother, join me again.
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That was a lot.
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New hair!
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Hi.
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Hi.
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She's back.
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We're back.
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Hi, Mom.
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Hi, Precious.
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Isn't she so pretty?
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I love you so much.
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I love you so much.
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Seven years to the day, Mom.
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Oh my gosh.
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And we were in New York, remember?
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Remember?
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Oh my gosh.
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On the first one.
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Yeah, that was crazy.
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We never knew what was going to happen with it.
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I know.
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I just was saying it.
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She's the one that helps me have a brain and, you know, use my platform for good and do all the things I need to do.
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Yes, I hope you have a very busy year.
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What?
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What?
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With your album comes out and you have so much fun and you have such a fun year making videos
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and playing pickleball and cooking and not jumping off of things.
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Dude, I'm going to be.
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You just have to accept I'm going to jump off stuff. And you stay healthy.
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I've been cooking.
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You have been cooking.
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I've actually been cooking.
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I've been reading.
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And you have so many good friends.
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And you take good care of yourself.
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And you laugh so much.
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And you have so much fun.
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And I love seeing it.
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Love it.
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I love you.
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Look.
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Aw.
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That's so cute.
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Oh, my gosh.
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Off to MSG we go.
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Mwah.
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That's not for me.
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That's not for me.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “Billie Eilish: Same Interview, The Eighth Year”. Deze video bevat 304 zinnen en 2484 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 17:34. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 141 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. Slechts 81% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| cautious bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈkɔːʃəs/ | voorzichtig |
| gosh | /ɡɑːʃ/ | gossie |
| listener zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/ | luisteraar, toehoorder |
| dread zelfstandig naamwoord | /dɹɛd/ | vrees, doodsangst |
| embarrassed bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɪmˈbæɹ.əst/ | in verlegenheid gebracht |
| tooth zelfstandig naamwoord | /tuθ/ | tand |
| verse zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈvɝs/ | vers |
| crocodile zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkɹɑkədaɪl/ | krokodil |
| existential bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃl̩/ | existentieel |
| frustrate werkwoord | /ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪt/ | frustreren |
| labyrinth zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈlæb.ə.ɹɪnθ/ | doolhof, labyrint |
| objectively bijwoord | /əbˈd͡ʒɛktɪvli/ | objectief |
| surpass werkwoord | /sɚˈpæs/ | overstijgen, overtreffen |
| techno zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈtɛknoʊ/ | techno |
| collaborate werkwoord | /kəˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/ | samenwerken |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| come out werkwoord | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | uitkomen |
| end up werkwoord | belanden, terechtkomen | |
| put out werkwoord | buitenzetten, uitwerpen | |
| come back werkwoord | terugkomen | |
| come up with werkwoord | bedenken, verzinnen | |
| figure out werkwoord | uitvogelen, er achter komen |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- I'm looking at all the frozen years past.
- I'm back on my bullshit, I wanna do more.
- What does that mean, I wanna do more?
- Wow, why was I yelling?
- Ooh, did I predict it?
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — iets dat eerder begon en nog bezig is | have been doing · I've been listening · have been bawling |
| “Used to” used to + werkwoord — een vroegere gewoonte of toestand die niet meer klopt | used to be · used to pretend · used to have |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | I've spent · has happened · I've ever made |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 89 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, don't, I've. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: tooth /tuθ/, labyrinth /ˈlæb.ə.ɹɪnθ/, thumb /ˈθʌm/, eighth /eɪtθ/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: cautious /ˈkɔːʃəs/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, existential /ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃl̩/, admiration /ˌæd.məˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, punish /ˈpʌnɪʃ/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: incriminate /ɪnˈkɹɪm.ɪ.neɪ̯t/, objectively /əbˈd͡ʒɛktɪvli/, sicario /sɪˈkɑːɹi.oʊ/, collaborate /kəˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/, admiration /ˌæd.məˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: dread /dɹɛd/, skydive /ˈskaɪˌdaɪv/, collab /kəˈlæb/, surround /səˈɹaʊnd/, freeze /ˈfɹiːz/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: embarrassed /ɪmˈbæɹ.əst/, collab /kəˈlæb/, labyrinth /ˈlæb.ə.ɹɪnθ/, surpass /sɚˈpæs/, collaborate /kəˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, existential /ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃl̩/, youngest /ˈjʌŋ.ɡɪst/, grandma /ˈɡɹænmɑː/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als cautious, gosh, listener.
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.