Billie Eilish Wants You To Stop Impersonating Her — Especially If You're Gonna Wear Running Shoes

Billie Eilish is done with the imitators. The "Bad Guy" singer took to her Instagram Stories yesterday (January 30) to ask fans to "please stop" pretending to be her in public. Furthermore to it being dangerous, it's downright disrespectful — especially if they're not going to accomplish the look with the pop star's preference Gucci sneakers.


"Please stop doing this shit," Eilish wrote alongside a photo of someone impersonating her in an oversized neon green outfit, which is the 18-year-old's signature. "It isn't safe for you also it is mean to the people who don't know any better," the Grammy Award-winner continued. "You make me look bad."


She's right. Pretending to be a prominent celebrity is very unsafe, and not just for the person doing the impersonating. If folks are truly convinced, they'll likely flock to get a up-close look, causing absolute mayhem. Plus, if you're not going to get the outfit exactly right, why even bother?


Immediately after posting YouTube thumbnails of fans who've impersonated her in public before, Eilish posted to her Stories again to call the person out for swapping her chunky Gucci sneakers for a normal pair of running shoes. "Soooo disrespectful that you'd go out pretending to be me wearing THIS," she wrote.


Soon immediately after Eilish posted her stories, the person responsible came forward to explain themselves and apologize. As it turns out, photographer Jordan Matter hired an acrobat dressed as Eilish for a video shoot, and well, chaos ensued.


"I gathered a group and had an acrobat pretending to be Billie do an enormous cheer flip, which revealed it was not Billie," Matter wrote on Instagram. I had absolutely no intention of disrespecting Billie. I'm a big fan, like each person else."


"I've never done a celebrity impersonation video before, nevertheless they're pretty normal so I thought it could be fun to add my own acrobatic twist," Matter added before explaining that he didn't think anyone would get hurt. "I felt it was totally harmless since at no time in the video are we pretending that she is actually Billie."


Matter closed out his post by explaining that he's since apologized to Billie directly, and that he'll not post the video without their permission." Without consideration, we're just happy that no one was seriously injured. And let this be a lesson: Tricking unsuspecting people into thinking you are a prominent celebrity simply isn't it.