Now available on AppleTV we bring you our Billie Eilish The World’s A Little Blurry Review.
An intimate look at the singer-songwriter’s journey, navigating life on the road, on stage, and at home, while creating her debut album.
Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry tells the true coming-of-age story of the singer-songwriter and her rise to global superstardom.
From award-winning filmmaker R.J. Cutler, the film offers a deeply intimate look at this extraordinary teenager’s journey, at just seventeen years old, navigating life on the road, on stage, and at home with her family, while writing, recording and releasing her debut album “WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?”
The documentary is from Apple Original Films, in association with Interscope Films, Darkroom, This Machine and Lighthouse Management & Media.
What sets this documentary apart from many artist docs I’ve seen before is just how inside Billie’s circle we get.
We aren’t watching interviews about Billie from a distance, we are a fly on the wall in the bedroom as this brother and sister musical tag-team write and sing music.
We’re in the living room as an album submission deadline approaches and they’re both nervous but focused.
We’re in the car as Billie goes to get her drivers permit.
This is a documentary that steps over many documentaries that have come before it and gives us the complete tour of the process that drove them to stardom.
Three years of following Billie around and with lots of personal footage from Billie and her family too make this documentary so well rounded and thorough.
Whilst we don’t get to explore Billie’s personality any deeper than the clips we see, as an audience we can see this raw version of the artist.
We get a mere slither, a tiny slice of this whirlwind journey rather than getting to know Billie as a person, but the character traits are there for all to see.
As the documentary progresses we see her relationship with her partner and that need to be loved, to be wanted, to be supported, to be understood.
The self doubt of smashing a huge performance to sit in a trailer and re-think that moment over and over downplaying the achievement that her fans have just witnessed.
It’s powerful stuff and sets this documentary aside from so many before it who fail to scratch beneath the surface.
She’s fierce, she’s independent, she knows what she wants and has a real joy and passion for not only her music but her fans, deeming them as extensions of herself rather than a ‘fan’ in the sense of the word.
For someone who hates writing music she still powers through with her brother as the pressure mounts song after song, album after album to be bigger and better.
The harsh realities of hate and self-doubt weave in and out of the narrative as Billie is worried that the more popular a song gets the more hate she is opening herself up to.
It really is a documentary with such layers and such depth and for me, as a neutral when it comes to her music, I was absolutely captivated.
It was so refreshing to see the process from the source rather than dotting around friends and family, there is so much home video here which explains the sheer length of this 2 hour+ doc.
The joy of having her dream car for her birthday was so incredible to watch, it’s these moments where the documentary doesn’t focus on the music as its key focus.
We focus on Billie’s love of Bieber at a young age and some crushes as she’s growing up, just a regular girl living an irregular life and making the most of every second.
It’s a documentary that deserves your time and attention. It’s been put together with love and care and pays that in kind to all of those who take the time to watch.
Keep your eyes peeled for a scene with Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom that gets super awkward.
Would love to hear peoples thoughts on that when the documentary drops!
The World’s A Little Blurry review by Sean Evans
Our Rating
Summary
A wonderfully structured documentary and an extensive doc that die-hard fans will absolutely love!
