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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment

Billie Eilish and Becky Hill’s grim take on growing up in today’s world

Billie Eilish at the 96th Annual Oscars held at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles.
Billie Eilish, whose latest album was reviewed last week. Photograph: WWD/Getty Images

Billie Eilish’s album features “bitter recriminations about a failed relationship, body dysmorphia, depression and the pressures of finding vast global fame while barely out of your teens” (Review, 16 May), and Becky Hill claims that university involves having to make friends “through the means of drinking alcohol and getting chlamydia” (Interview, 17 May) . Makes me glad I grew up in the 60s!
Sarah Sheils
York

• Extra virgin olive oil can cost even more than £16 a litre (Letters, 12 May) if you factor in a “solidarity premium” by supporting farmers in the West Bank. Palestinian olive growers are somehow continuing to harvest, process and export their oil through the Zaytoun social enterprise and various retailers. It’s pricey, but superb.
Ruth Kitching
London

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