Billie Eilish Seemingly Skipped the 2025 VMAs Despite Multiple Nominations

Billie Eilish is nominated for a ton of awards at the 2025 VMAs, but it looks like she’s skipping the event! Why, you ask? Unclear. Her tour doesn’t pick back up for a few weeks, but it’s possible that Billie’s simply taking a much deserved break. She was last at the VMAs in 2021:

Billie’s up for Video of the Year and Song of the Year for “Birds of a Feather” tonight—not to mention “Song for Good,” Best Direction, Best Editing, and Best Art direction for her “Guess” collab with Charli XCX.

Billie chatted about collaborating with Charli to Complex, saying, “I mean, Brat was fucking awesome. Charli’s awesome, and she’s finally getting the attention that she deserves. Finneas went to see her at her show in L.A. when I was out of town or something. He saw her backstage with somebody else, and then he came back and told me, ‘They said if you want to jump on a song, that would be so awesome.’ I hadn’t even thought of it, but I knew she was doing that, and it just came naturally. We got on the phone and talked about which song. ‘Guess’ was my favorite song from the extended version, and oh my god, I was so excited. We made it in under a week, including the video, and then it came out like three days later. It was awesome.”

When it came to recording, Billie added, “Well, it was still just me and Finneas in the studio. Finneas and I just sat in the studio and wrote that. It was my dream. My dream collab, aside from whatever Rihanna wants, is not having to have any contact with anybody. Even if it’s somebody I’m super close to. Even people that I love deeply as artists, if we wanted to work together, I’d be like, ‘Cool, you go home. I’ll make something alone. You make something alone. Then we’ll send it and then work on it separately.’”