'Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry': Release date, concept, where to stream and all buzz around singer's documentary
Billie Eilish, the 18-year-old alternative singer and songwriter from Los Angeles, California, will soon be featured in a documentary titled 'Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry'. The 'When the Party's Over' hitmaker, whose 2019 debut studio album 'When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?' charted atop the Billboard 200, announced the documentary on her social media handles on September 28, 2020, with a short teaser. It showed one of Billie's childhod videos where she is sitting at the piano smiling. The singer simply titled the post "Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry" along with the short teaser. Here's all you need to know about the upcoming documentary.
The documentary film about Billie Eilish, titled “Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry” and directed by RJ Cutler, will be released in theaters and on Apple TV+ in February 2021. pic.twitter.com/eSMzYE7Jhz
— billie eilish (@billieeilish) September 28, 2020
Release date
Initially discussed by Billie during her press features in early 2020, the official release timeline for 'Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry' is February, 2021. The exact date has not yet been revealed, but the documentary will be out early next year.
Concept
'Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry' reveals the behind-the-scenes creation process of her debut studio album 'When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?'. The documentary will also dive inside Billie's transition into a global pop phenomenon and will touch upon her early interest in music as a child, and her symbiotic musical relationship with her brother, Finneas O'Connell, who won five Grammy Awards (Album of the Year, Best Engineered Album – Non-Classical, and Best Pop Vocal Album for 'When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?'; and Record of the Year & Song of the Year for Billie's 'Bad Guy'). The title of the documentary refers to a lyric from Billie's song 'Ilomilo'.
Where to watch?
'Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry' will be streaming exclusively on Apple TV+, and will also be released in select theatres across the US. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the documentary was picked up by Apple for a whopping price tag of $25 million while its budget was between $1 to $2 million.
Director/Producer
'Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry' has been directed by RJ Cutler; the documentarian behind films 'The World According to Dick Cheney' and 'The September Issue'. The documentary has been produced by Apple Original Films, in association with Interscope Films, Darkroom, This Machine, and Lighthouse Management & Media.
Billie is the 23rd biggest artiste of the digital singles era, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, with 37.5 million singles sold. Before the pandemic, the 18-year-old dropped 'No Time to Die', the title theme to the upcoming James Bond movie. The audio of the song has racked over 90 million views on YouTube.