The singer just lately criticized billionaires for not using their wealth for extra charitable endeavors. Nevertheless, followers appear to assume her statements are an oblique jab at Taylor Swift, whom she has feuded with prior to now. 

Final 12 months, Eilish shaded high-profile figures for being too wasteful of their album packaging, and followers had been led to imagine that she was referring to Swift. 

Eilish was acknowledged with the Music Innovator Award throughout the just lately concluded WSJ Journal Innovator Awards in New York Metropolis. 

Throughout her acceptance speech, she raised consciousness of the unsettling occasions on the earth and referred to as on resourceful folks to do one thing about them. 

“We’re in a time proper now the place the world is absolutely, actually unhealthy and actually darkish and folks want empathy and assist greater than sort of ever, particularly in our nation,” she stated, per BuzzFeed. 

The 23-year-old singer stated it’ll be nice if individuals who have cash use “it for good issues and possibly give it to some individuals who want it.” Not unaware of the caliber of people that had been within the room together with her, Eilish acknowledged that “there’s a number of folks in right here which have much more cash than me.”

“And for those who’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?” She additional requested.  The singer didn’t simply make daring statements but in addition determined to place her cash the place her mouth is.

She pledged to make a whopping $11.5 million donation from the proceeds of her “Hit Me Onerous And Gentle” tour to organizations that combat local weather change and for meals fairness. 

Though Eilish didn’t point out any billionaire superstar by identify in her transferring speech, followers on-line appear to assume her phrases had been directed at Taylor Swift. 

One fan wrote, “She’s shading Taylor, I believe,” and one other wrote, “Discover how she stated ‘billionaires not donating’ and Taylor’s haters are ignoring it.”

Another person commented, “The Taylor shade, oh Billie, you’ll all the time be proper,” whereas this critic penned that Swift would moderately “launch extra variations and earn cash than give it out to individuals who really need it.”

One fan identified that Eilish’s feedback weren’t essentially about Swift, “but when that shoe suits…” whereas this consumer added:

“Billie Eilish simply cooked the billionaires in their very own room.  ‘Why are you a billionaire? No hate, however give your cash away, shorties’ she stated whereas she’s actually donating $11.5M herself. That’s the way you drop the mic and the test.”

Followers appear to assume Eilish’s feedback had been directed at Swift as a result of final 12 months the previous expressed frustration at seeing artists use wasteful album packaging.

“I discover it actually irritating as any individual who actually goes out of my method to be sustainable and do the perfect that I can and attempt to contain all people in my group in being sustainable—after which it is among the greatest artists on the earth making f—– 40 completely different vinyl packages which have a unique distinctive factor simply to get you to maintain shopping for extra,” she lamented, per The Blast.

The “Ocean Eyes” singer discovered it “wasteful” and “irritating” that artists had been extra involved about getting cash than in regards to the setting. 

Though she didn’t point out any names, followers had been fast to invest that she was speaking about Swift, whose “Tortured Poets Division” album was out there in 4 variations. 

Though followers remained agency of their perception that Eilish was speaking to Swift, the “Happier Than Ever” singer shortly got here ahead to debunk the speculations. 

In keeping with The Blast, the nine-time Grammy Award winner put out an announcement saying it will be “superior” if folks would cease “placing phrases” in her mouth.