Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas were honored this weekend at the Variety Hitmakers Brunch with the Film Song of the Year Award for their contribution to the Barbie soundtrack. However, it wasn’t the single “What Was I Made For?” that the outlet wanted to talk about on the red carpet, as the artist was asked about coming out in her recent interview with Variety. Eilish later posted a scathing caption to social media about being outed on the red carpet, and many of her fans had the same reaction.
At the December 2 event, Variety asked Billie Eilish about her comments in the magazine’s November cover story, in which she discussed her own femininity and said she was “attracted to” girls. The “Bad Guy” singer politely responded that she hadn’t intended to come out to the magazine and asked, “Why can’t we just exist?,” and her comments on Instagram that followed suggested that she’d felt blindsided by the line of questioning. Alongside a photo of her pants pulled down around her knees, Eilish wrote:
