Billie Eilish - Bellyache Lyrics Meaning
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Mar 30th 2023!⃝Firstly, I am hoping many of these were written by children, as they are incredibly illiterate. How people with spellcheck and auto-suggest can mispel so many words is beyond me.
But to add to another interpretation on here, the one about "v for vendetta" representing her regret of loosing her virginity, I think you are right on the money.
To attach an addendum to said viewpoint, I would suggest that, as people refer to their "V card", she may have indeed been referring to the regret of loosing it. One way to look at it could be that she had sex in a bout of vengeance, ie a vendetta of petty jealousy, perhaps an example of feminine competitiveness for their desired man. Her dead friends possibly indicating that making this act of revenge destroyed her relationships with them. Maybe there's some sort of retaliation she faced, and therefore they are dead to her, but shes attempting to hide the bodies, possibly indicating that she knows she has done wrong but is desperately trying to run away from her problems and not face them. However, she knows she cannot run from her wrong-doings forever, and her crimes will be snuft out by the world in due time.
An alternative interpretation, I thought she may have lost her virginity through being raped. Possibly her "friends" set it up, making them "dead to her" and "sacrificing" a boyfriend who she actually cared for, by forceful loss of her innocence. Which could indicate the "guil" she feels as a bellyache, guilt as in loss of innocence (virginity), though maybe she thinks the truth will reveal itself in time, for the evidence is in clear sight.
I do believe in real life, she likely faced abuse at the hands of her parents, managers, etc etc. She was IMO a sacrifice from her family for stardom. Like all child stars, her upcoming was manufactured and she was wrongly sold-out for the financial gain of her greedy family. Things aren't always as straight forward and innocent as they appear on the surface. Billie is to me, obviously a very troubled soul, who has endured great pain, and likely still is. I for one, do not believe her symbolism of torment in mich of her music is simply art for the sake of art. People create art to represent their pain, regret and sorrows through parables of sorts. In this case, music, lyrics and imagery (in music videos).