“I was like, ‘This is so me. She was one of the first women who was dressing kind of like a boy, and I was so drawn to that. She’s the coolest”: Billie Eilish on her new-found appreciation of a ‘00s pop-punk icon

Billie Eilish.

Billie Eilish’s arrival on the pop scene felt like a breath of fresh air, but the star says that she’s come to the realisation that she’s taken a certain amount of inspiration from another female artist who made a similarly big impression in the early ‘00s.

Step forward one Avril Lavigne, who Eilish says laid the groundwork for her singular style. In a joint interview with her brother Finneas for the LA Times, the brother and sister duo say that they recently spent an evening watching Lavigne’s videos, and something about her look was immediately familiar.