Billie Eilish Shares New Short Film On Body-Image Double Standards

Though she's since had to postpone the last of the dates on her Where Do We Go? World Tour, Billie Eilish's massive global trek kicked off earlier this year with a powerful statement. Back in March, at a show in Miami, Eilish unveiled a short film meant to combat body-shaming as a preface to her song "All the Good Ladies Go to Hell."


Right now, she's shared that film — which had previously only been noticed circulating in fan-captured footage — in full on her YouTube page. It's called "Not My Responsibility," and yes it features Eilish stripping off layers of her clothes as she asks through the voiceover, "Do my shoulders provoke you? Does my chest? Am I my belly? My hips? The body I was place on Earth with, is it not what you wanted?"


Eilish included the entire text of her statements in the video's description, and once read in full, it captures a potent take on both the undue expectations placed on young females and also because the double standards they're often contained to. "If I wear what is comfortable, I am not a woman," she says in the video. "If I lose the layers, I'm a slut."


The singer herself discussed about her choice to wear baggy clothing in a Calvin Klein ad from 2019. "Nobody can have a suggestion because they haven't seen what's underneath," she mentioned. The "Not My Responsibility" seeks to take a little bit of that power back by swinging it in the opposite direction, with Eilish removing her clothes although on her own terms. The final words of the film speak even more directly to that power imbalance.

we make assumptions about people

based on their size

we determine who they are

we determine what they’re worth

if I wear more

if I wear less

who decides what that makes me?

what that means?

is my value based only on your perception?

or is your suggestion of me

not my responsibility

Watch Eilish's powerful new statement film above.