Billie Eilish Says a Kamala Harris Presidency Would Make Her ‘Feel Safe as a Woman’ in the U.S.
What was Kamala Harris made for? Billie Eilish thinks the Oval Office.
Just a few weeks after endorsing the VP for president in 2024, the 22-year-old superstar was candid about her thoughts on the fast-approaching general election in a Vogue cover story published Tuesday (Oct. 8). “A lot of my fans are going to be able to vote for the first time,” Eilish told the publication. “So I’m like, ‘Do you like freedom?'”
“First female president? Would be really amazing,” the nine-time Grammy winner continued of Harris. “I would love to feel safe as a woman in my country.”
Eilish first joined the election discourse in September, when she and her older brother, producer Finneas, filmed a video together emphatically endorsing the Democratic ticket. “We are voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz because they are fighting to protect our reproductive freedom, our planet and our democracy,” she said at the time. “Vote like your life depends on it — because it does.”
In posting the video to her social media accounts, the “Lunch” singer became just one of many stars to throw support behind Harris ahead 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 more have all also joined the cause over the past few months, while artists such as Ye, Kid Rock, Jason Aldean and Sexyy Red have backed Republican opponent Donald Trump.
“I mean, this is the most important election of our time, maybe,” Eilish told Vogue, adding that she’s a “really big fan of women’s rights and women’s reproductive rights and social justice and gun laws.”
“It’s so easy to be like, ‘I don’t want to think about it,'” she continued. “I have that same kind of feeling: I’m one person, I can’t make any change. But the truth is, we can all make change. And I have this platform and I’m going to use it.”
See Eilish’s Vogue cover and photos from the shoot below.
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