What was Kamala Harris made for? Billie Eilish thinks the Oval Workplace.
Only a few weeks after endorsing the VP for president in 2024, the 22-year-old celebrity was candid about her ideas on the fast-approaching basic election in a Vogue cowl story printed Tuesday (Oct. 8). “Lots of my followers are going to have the ability to vote for the primary time,” Eilish advised the publication. “So I’m like, ‘Do you want freedom?’”
“First feminine president? Could be actually superb,” the nine-time Grammy winner continued of Harris. “I might like to really feel protected as a girl in my nation.”
Eilish first joined the election discourse in September, when she and her older brother, producer Finneas, filmed a video collectively emphatically endorsing the Democratic ticket. “We’re voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz as a result of they’re combating to guard our reproductive freedom, our planet and our democracy,” she stated on the time. “Vote like your life is determined by it — as a result of it does.”
In posting the video to her social media accounts, the “Lunch” singer grew to become simply considered one of many stars to throw assist behind Harris forward of Election Day on Nov. 5. Taylor Swift, Megan Thee Stallion, Cardi B, John Legend, Ariana Grande, Barbra Streisand, Carole King, Bon Iver, Pink and extra have all additionally joined the trigger over the previous few months, whereas artists resembling Ye, Child Rock, Jason Aldean and Sexyy Purple have backed Republican opponent Donald Trump.
“I imply, that is crucial election of our time, possibly,” Eilish advised Vogue, including that she’s a “actually large fan of girls’s rights and girls’s reproductive rights and social justice and gun legal guidelines.”
“It’s really easy to be like, ‘I don’t wish to give it some thought,’” she continued. “I’ve that very same form of feeling: I’m one individual, I can’t make any change. However the reality is, we will all make change. And I’ve this platform and I’m going to make use of it.”
See Eilish’s Vogue cowl and images from the shoot under.