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Billie Eilish Drags ‘Big Artists’ for ‘Wasteful Packaging’ of Their Albums. Eilish discussed her passion for sustainability in an interview with 'Billboard'. "We live in this day and age where, for some reason, it’s very important to some artists to make all sorts of different vinyl and packaging … which ups the sales and ups the numbers and gets them more money and gets them more". “I can’t even express to you how wasteful it is,” Eilish said. "I find it really frustrating as somebody who really goes out of my way to be sustainable and do the best that I can and try to involve everybody in my team in being sustainable and then it’s some of the biggest artists in the world making f------ 40 different vinyl packages that have a different unique thing just to get you to keep buying more." "It’s so wasteful, and it’s irritating to me that we’re still at a point where you care that much about your numbers and you care that much about making money — and it’s all your favorite artists doing that s---.", Billie Eilish, to 'Billboard'. Eilish's 2021 record, 'Happier Than Ever,' was released in eight variants, but they were created with recycled materials, 'Page Six' reports. Many people speculated that Eilish's comments were aimed at Taylor Swift, prompting Swifties to come to the pop star's defense. "The dig at Taylor and other similar artists about charts and numbers was unnecessary and detracts from her original point.", Swiftie, via X. "Billie herself put out multiple vinyl variants (sustainably) so her point about chart and number obsession is hypocritical.", Swiftie, via X. THIS VIDEO MUST NOT BE EDITED FOR LENGTH TO COMBINE WITH OTHER CONTENT