Billie Eilish Washes Her Dream Car And Ponders Existence In Revealing Doc Trailer

In three days, Billie Eilish turns 19, and nevertheless she's already become one of the most celebrated artists of her generation. It can be hard to remember a time before her Grammys sweep, before every new song drop was An Event, before she became a veritable auteur crafting her own visual identity.


Luckily, filmmaker R.J. Cutler spent time documenting that very space in Eilish's life. And the efforts of his time beyond the scenes with her — a new doc called Billie Eilish: The World's A little bit Blurry — look to distribute those intimate specifics, the kind you may expect from a world musical sensation who recorded a No. 1 album from her brother's childhood bedroom.


In the trailer, released today (December 15), we visualize Eilish pass her driver's test and look forward to cruising around alone ("That's what's critical she says from beyond the wheel). We visualize her admit to still sleeping in her parents' bed "because I'm scared of monsters in my room." And we visualize her washing her first car/dream vehicle, a Dodge Challenger, in her driveway. That's all pretty ordinary teenage stuff, with several specifics tweaked.


Although what makes the footage so compelling is how it's cut with a clip from a live efficiency, surely shot from before she was selling out arenas across the globe, where she tells the audience, "You guys need to be OK, 'cause y'all are the reason I'm OK. OK?"


This is all interspersed with clips from Eilish's youth, and also her big night at the 2020 Grammys earlier this year, in a tale that promises to tell the full story of Billie Eilish... So far.


Cutler, the director, has plenty of experience in the realm: He's helmed docs on subjects as diverse as John Belushi, Dick Cheney, and Vogue magazine. Visualize for yourself what he reveals about Eilish once the film hits theaters and Apple TV+ on February 26.


In the meantime, watch the revealing new trailer above.