[3rd POV]
Billie breathed in deeply as she listened to Ellen talk on the other side. She was talking to one of the other guests that was coming onto the show, and was getting some laughs out of the crowd.
She was nervous, Billie had understood. For one, she had never been on a proper talk show. Not one where they are going to ask questions that might make her a little uncomfortable. She had never done anything remotely like this, and she was rightfully a bit nervous about what to do.
Billie decided to take a few deep breathes, as she heard a voice echo from next to her.
"Are you nervous?" The voice of a woman asked, as she turned, finding one of the workers that actually helped the celebrities around, she was a pretty kind person from what Billie could tell.
"Is it that obvious?" Billie asked in return, with the woman chuckling. The woman from the looks of it couldn't be older than Claire, so she was middle aged at most.
"I've seen a few other guests come on that were the exact same way. No need to be nervous Miss Eilish, Ellen's pretty good at making sure her guests are comfortable up there. And all the audience members know better than to say anything stupid" The woman informed her, with Billie chuckling.
"Oh I know. It's just that I've never been on a talk show before. Doing a concert is one thing, but doing this is another. I think it's because I'm going to actually be asked questions. I know that they're ones I'm okay with, but it still makes it hard not to be at least somewhat nervous" Billie replied, with the woman looking at her with a comforting smile.
"Trust me hon, you are not the first person that has had those exact same thoughts, and you won't be the last. Plus, Ellen isn't just good at making sure her celebrities are comfortable, she's also good at making sure she doesn't ask a question that will make them uncomfortable" The woman replied, making Billie go silent.
"Yeah I figured, guess I'll just need to relax and hope this goes well" Billie responded to the kind woman, as she gave her a small smile before walking off to go back to whatever she was doing.
Billie stood there for what was probably another three minutes or so, before she was led further up by a worker, informing her that she was going to be called out within the next minute.
And soon, she was, as she heard the voice of Ellen echo and she was told to head on out.
Breathing in deeply, she began to walk.
While Ellen's voice echoed, and the cheers of the audience joined them.
"Known for her new and unique style of music, which has won her the most Grammys in it's history, rising superstar, and multi-platinum artist. Please welcome Billie Eilish!" Billie heard, as she walked out and onto the stage, a smile forming as she gave a wave to the crowd.
Walking over to Ellen who had a smile on her own face.
"You know, you might be the least flashiest guess I've had on this show" Ellen began as Billie sat across from her, her eyebrow raising.
"Really? Is it because of all the black?" Billie asked, getting a few snickers from the crowd.
"No no, I mean most of my guests give kisses to the crowd or bow or something like that, but you just gave a smile and wave" Ellen replied her smile growing. She had noticed beforehand that Billie was nervous, but it looked like she was already getting used to this.
"Yeah well, I've never been the flashy type. I'll let my fellow artists do that part" Billie said, as Ellen chuckled, before she began.
"So, I've gotta ask, how does it feel to come on the show for the first time? Not just the show, but your first talk show!"
"If I'm gonna be honest? A bit nerve wrecking, being in front of a crowd at a concert is one thing, but a talk show is very different"
"Oh? How so?"
"Well a talk show has you...you know, talk. While singing and dancing is about all you do at a concert" Billie replied, already getting used to this entire experience.
"Hey, we do dancing and singing here too you know" Ellen replied, getting up and doing a little jiggle, one of her "Entrance dances" that she tended to do, getting a snort from Billie.
That snort got several more laughs from the crowd.
"Yeah I think I'll stick to the concert dancing" Billie said, as Ellen let out her own laugh.
"Alright alright. I guess talking it is. So, I understand that you and HD are quite...close, right?" Ellen asked, making Billie chuckle.
"You could say that, yeah"
"I think the biggest question everyone's wondering, and the question I'm sure you know is coming. What's happening there?"
"Well...we are close friends. You could sort of think of me as her mentor. You know, showing her the ropes and all that. It's public knowledge that I'm the one that has written her songs, so I'm sure that's not too much of a surpise" Billie replied.
"Do you write all of her songs on top of your own?"
"Mhmm, every song I've ever released or she has ever released, has been written by me. For her songs I get her input on the tone and such, and she puts her own spin on things, but it's mostly me writing" Billie replied with a nod.
"How many songs have you written? I mean, you've been doing this for...what, three years now? 2 years?"
"Something like that. And in terms of songs I've written...it's a lot more than you'd think. Actually, you know what? I wanna hear your guess for how many I've written" Billie said, with Ellen humming.
"I'd say...50 songs?"
"Higher" Billie replied.
"75"
"Nope"
"Wow! How many then?"
"As of last month? I have over 245 songs written in a large notebook. Most of them are just going to remain as nothing more than ideas. But I...write a lot, it's a pass time for me" Billie replied, making Ellen's eyes go wide in genuine surprise.
Billie was smart to say "in a large notebook". She never said that she actually had more than that. As thanks to her very very good memory, in which she remembers...well, everything, she was able to find a LOT of songs that didn't exist here that she could make.
She had songs that were in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, and a few other languages. As she had learned and listened to a lot of foreign music in her past life.
She was basically a walking "encylopedia" of music from her past life. Which also meant she had a lot of songs that she could make for the next decade or two.
"Alright, now I really have to ask: how do you do it? Making that many songs? I mean, I've heard of artists making 50 to like a hundred of them. But having 245 songs in a notebook, all unused? That's insane! And are they just rough drafts, or are they similar to the rest of your music?"
"Well I've been writing them since I was like...11 I think? And yes, they are all finished and similar to my music, although some of them are a bit...unique. Mostly in the fact that I have made a few songs that are in Spanish, French, Italian, and a few other languages of note" Billie explained.
"You know other languages?"
"I know 13 different languages, as well as sign language" Billie replied, as she had been learning language after language over the years, and planned on learning some other ones soon.
"...Man, the more you talk about yourself the more I'm realizing that you really are incredible" Ellen said, just shaking her head in silent disbelief. The audience was having very similar reactions, realizing that Billie was genuinely a genius, a once in a lifetime genius.
Ellen could not think of a single other artist that had come on the show, that could casually admit to something like that. Sure, some of them had made a LOT of songs. But having that many ready to go, written, and all of them being made over the course of less than ten years, starting at the age of 11? That's insane.
Either way, Ellen knew that she needed to get onto the next question, all the while, the short haired woman had only one thought on her mind.
'I am definitely making this girl a regular'
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