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Topics: Billie Eilish, Music, Celebrity, Social Media
Rhianna Benson
Topics: Billie Eilish, Music, Celebrity, Social Media
Imagine waking up one morning, reaching across your bed-side table, checking your phone and opening Instagram only to discover that your No. 1 celebrity has added you to their 'close friends' list on Instagram.
Well, such is the mind-blowing reality for a lucky batch of Billie Eilish fans today, who have been left mind-blown after receiving access to an array of exclusive clips and pics posted by the nine-time Grammy-Award winning singer.
That's right, a very select few of the 'What Was I Made For?' hitmaker's most-adoring 115 million followers have seemingly be added to the elite social media 'Story'.
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If you're unfamiliar with the concept of 'close friends', the picture-sharing Meta site allows you to use different levels of sharing content.
And if - like 22-year-old Billie - your account is public, then you'll be able to create a special edition list of followers, with whom you'll be able to share your private content.
And the chart-topper has done just that, today sharing her first ever snap with her 'close friends'.
The hotly-debated shows a hand in front of the night sky, with a set of eagle-eyed viewers noticing the little green label at the top of the image, telling them that they’d been added to her list.
She also went on to share a snap of a brand new tattoo she'd received.
Within a matter of hours, the hashtag #billieeilishclosefriends was trending on Twitter, with hundreds of users taking to the social media app to question why and how exactly they'd been added.
Sharing a screengrab online, one fan teased: "Mom: why is billie eilish at your wedding??' me: that's my bestie."
A second went on to share a snap of YouTube icon Trisha Paytas eating with a cardboard cut out, comedically captioning it: "Me and Billie Eilish after she added me to her close friends."
On another GIF of Peaky Blinders actor Cillian Murphy winning his Oscar at this year's ceremony, another captioned it: "How I feel after seeing myself in Billie Eilish’s instagram close friends."
A fourth joked: "Opening instagram and pretending that billie eilish personally put me on her close friends list."
The exciting news comes just days after Billie shared a response to a handful of Taylor Swift fans, who believed that she'd thrown shade at the country-pop star.
In case you're not caught up the celeb goss, Billie recently did an interview recently with Billboard where she opened up about her thoughts on sustainability, appearing to fire a shot at Taylor.
"Some of the biggest artists in the world making f**king 40 different vinyl packages that have a different unique thing just to get you to keep buying more," she hit out.
Billie went on: "I can't even express to you how wasteful it is. 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."
Fans believe this could have been aimed at 'Love Story' singer Taylor, being that she put out several different slightly tweaked physical and digital versions of her new albums too following her falling out with Scooter Braun.
And after coming under fire from a group of Swifties, Billie this week clarified that she wasn't pointing to any particular artists with a lengthy Instagram statement.
Ooh, drama!