Singer Billie Eilish goes blonde – her Instagram reveal breaks a record and is now one of its most liked photos
- The Grammy winner showed off her blonde locks on Instagram to a million likes in six minutes
- Fans have speculated that Eilish was hiding her new hair under a wig and hat at the Grammys
Blond is the new green for musician Billie Eilish, who has ditched her signature lime green hair colour after winning her latest Grammy Award for record of the year.
On Wednesday, the Bad Guy hitmaker shared a photo revealing her platinum-blond dye job falling in shaggy layers across her forehead – and broke an Instagram record in the process.
“Pinch me,” Eilish captioned the image posted on St Patrick’s Day, racking up a million “likes” in six minutes, according to the BBC. That post surpassed a record previously set in 2018 by fellow singer Selena Gomez’s Instagram post marking her 26th birthday.
With more than 18 million likes, Eilish’s latest Instagram update now ranks among the 10 most-liked photos on the platform, according to the BBC. (Instagram didn’t respond to a request for confirmation.)
This isn’t the first time Eilish has made history. In 2020, the teen superstar became the second person ever to sweep the top four categories at the Grammys as well as the youngest solo act to win album of the year, at 18. Eilish is also the youngest performer ever to write and record the theme song for a Bond movie.
The titular tune from the soundtrack of No Time to Die just won the 2021 Grammy for song written for visual media – the first to do so before the premiere of its tandem film, which has been repeatedly delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic.)
The My Future artist vowed on Instagram to change her hairdo upon the release of her documentary The World’s a Little Blurry.
“It’ll be the end of an era,” she said in December. “I’m gonna give you a new era. I have announcements to make … Leave me alone. Let me live with my f****** hair that I’ve had for way too long, K?”
Since The World’s A Little Blurry debuted last month on Apple TV+, fans have speculated that Eilish had been hiding her latest hair colour under a wig – including at Sunday’s Grammy Awards, during which she obscured her roots with a patterned bucket hat.
The socially distanced ceremony saw Eilish’s Everything I Wanted receive the coveted prize for record of the year, an honour many – including Eilish – believed should have gone to rapper Megan Thee Stallion for her smash hit Savage, featuring Beyoncé.
“This is really embarrassing for me,” Eilish said during her acceptance speech. “Megan, girl … You deserve this … You are a queen. I want to cry thinking about how much I love you. You’re so beautiful. You’re so talented. You deserve everything in the world. I think about you constantly. I root for you always … Genuinely, this goes to her. Can we all cheer for Megan Thee Stallion, please?”
Megan Thee Stallion picked up three awards Sunday, including rap song, rap/song performance and best new artist. The WAP hitmaker is the first female hip-hop star to win best new artist since Lauryn Hill in 1999.
In addition to best song written for visual media and record of the year, Eilish was also nominated for pop solo performance and song of the year.
