When Billie Eilish kicked off her 'Where Do We Go?' tour in Miami a few months ago, one particular video interlude caught the audience's - and the internet's - attention.
The video, which is called 'NOT MY RESPONSIBILTY' - dealt with the topic of body-shaming and saw the 18-year-old stripping to her bra while a powerful monologue with lines like "Do my shoulders provoke you? Does my chest? Am I my stomach? My hips?The body I was born with, is it not what you wanted? If what I wear is comfortable, I am not a woman. If I shed the layers, I am a slut. Though you’ve never seen my body, you still judge it and judge me for it. Why?" played over the footage.
Now, since the tour has been cancelled, the full video has been released online.
It's a powerful and self-aware statement, particularly coming from a young musician who's one of the biggest pop stars in the world right now.
Watch it below (and read the full transcript below that):
"Do you really know me?
You have opinions about my opinions, about my music, about my clothes, about my body.
Some people hate what I wear, some people praise it. Some people use it to shame others, some people use it to shame me.
But I feel you watching… always. And nothing I do goes unseen.
So while I feel your stares, your disapproval or your sighs of relief, if I lived by them, I’d never be able to move.
Would you like me to be smaller? Weaker? Softer? Taller?
Would you like me to be quiet?
Do my shoulders provoke you? Does my chest? Am I my stomach? My hips?
The body I was born with, is it not what you wanted?
If what I wear is comfortable, I am not a woman. If I shed the layers, I am a slut.
Though you’ve never seen my body, you still judge it and judge me for it. Why?
You make assumptions about people based on their size. We decide who they are. We decide 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 opinion of me not my responsibility?"
