Billie Eilish proved anyone can access Grammy-winning gear

Singer Billie Eilish was on the Grammy’s red carpet pulling Ellen Degeneres underwear out of a flowery bag when she got the news. A woman nearby, apparently having just gotten word, held up a phone to Eilish’s face and said, “You just won Best Pop Vocal.”
The singer went on to sweep up four of the biggest awards that night, making her the first female artist to do so. Her debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? was crowned Best Album of the Year, while the song Bad Guy won Song of the Year and Record of the Year.
Eilish, at 18, had achieved something more prolific performers armed with top notch studios, dedicated teams of sound engineers and high end equipment had not. The capper? She had done so by working with her older brother Finneas O’Connell, out of a small bedroom studio in their parents’ home.
O’Connell, also known by his stage name FINNEAS, said he preferred recording in that space because it offered more natural light than recording studios. He told NME that “they tend to be lifeless and without any natural light, so I wanted to record wherever we lived.” Cost was also a factor. “We just don’t want to be bound to a studio to who we’d have to pay untold sums to.”