Billie Eilish Has An Official ASMR Cover Album, And We’re Shivering

What a year it’s been already for Billie Eilish.

So far, she’s scored a top 10 spot in the Hottest 100, soundtracked an NXT TakeOver, dominated at Coachella, received co-signs from Missy Higgins and the cast of The Office and even met one of her heroes in Justin Bieber. Oh, and she also went on record saying she thought the Spice Girls were a fictional group – but that’s neither here nor there.

So what’s next for the teen queen? Well, apart from arriving in Australia next week for a massive run of shows off the back of Groovin The Moo, she’s also moving into an area where she’s already developed quite the fanbase: ASMR.

It makes total sense on paper – after all, her breathy and light vocals go right up against you when you’re listening on headphones, not to mention the beats themselves often feature subtle touches (quite literally in this instance) that has made Eilish huge within the ASMR community.

One YouTuber, who goes by the name of Gibi, has taken things to the next level. She’s created an ASMR version of Billie’s entire album, WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? 

If you’ve ever wanted to hear ‘bad guy’ accompanied by whispers and fluttering fingers, or perhaps ‘all the good girls go to hell’ matched with light tapping on a wooden surface, then Gibi’s take on Eilish’s songs is for you – and, as it turns out, some 1.2 million other viewers.

What’s perhaps the most interesting thing about this whole thing is that the whole-album cover (cover? tribute? version?) was not simply an ambitious project for a young YouTuber. According to Pitchfork, the whole thing was commissioned by Eilish’s UK distributor, Polydor Records.

After seeing her doing an ASMR take on the Eilish song ‘lovely,’ a label rep requested Gibi to give …FALL ASLEEP the ASMR treatment. The YouTuber got a nice little care package out of it, too, including a swag of merch and tickets to see the singer live.

“I hope she enjoyed the video,” Gigi wrote via email, “and I hope it didn’t freak her out too much!”

Gigi, this is the same Eilish who made a music video where she’s covered head-to-toe in spiders. You think a little whispering is gonna freak her out?

Watch and experience the full video below.