Billie Eilish slams 'big artists' releasing multiple versions of albums in ... trends now
Billie Eilish criticized her music industry peers over their 'wasteful' practice of releasing numerous vinyl versions of albums to increase sales.
The 22-year-old Grammy winner — who recently revealed she partied til 6am after winning her Oscar — voiced her opinion during an interview about her sustainability efforts with Billboard published on Thursday.
'For some reason, it's very important to some artists to make all sorts of different vinyl and packaging,' she claimed. 'Which ups the sales and ups the numbers and gets them more money and gets them more.'
'I can't even express to you how wasteful it is,' she continued. 'I find it really frustrating as somebody who really goes out of my way to be sustainable and do the best that I can and try to involve everybody in my team in being sustainable.
'And then it's some of the biggest artists in the world making f****** 40 different vinyl packages that have a different unique thing just to get you to keep buying more.'
Billie Eilish criticized her music industry peers over their 'wasteful' practice of releasing numerous vinyl versions of albums to increase sales; pictured in February
'For some reason, it's very important to some artists to make all sorts of different vinyl and packaging,' she claimed. 'Which ups the sales and ups the numbers and gets them more money and gets them more' pictured Happier Than Ever album cover
The Bad Guy singer is not exempt from this practice as her latest studio album, Happier Than Ever, was available in eight different vinyl variations.
However, the variants were '100% recycled black vinyl, plus recycled scraps for colored variants and shrink-wrap made from sugar cane,' according to Billboard.
Eilish went on to say that she
