“It could be a girl interested in a girl and maybe that girl likes girls also but she doesn’t like her back,” Eilish said. Going even further, Eilish said that the song could be switched around and the premise would still make sense. And you don’t love me because you don’t love me and that’s the only reason and I wish you didn’t love me because you didn’t love girls.’” “It’s kind of like ‘I’m an ass and you don’t love me. “The whole idea of the song is, it’s kind of a joke,” she said. The main criticism of Eilish’s song came from her LGBTQ fans saying that she was queerbaiting her audience with the song’s title and ultimately fetishizing gay men and using them as props in order to get a guy that she likes.Įilish elaborated on what the meaning of the song was, saying that she was not supposed to come off as the victim. Billie Eilish Is Tired Of Heartache On New Single 'Wish You Were Gay': Listen