By Cheryl & Rich

Billie Eilish’s Busy Week

Sep 26, 2019 | 6:05 AM

Billie Eilish is back in school in a new promo for her upcoming debut performance on Saturday Night Live.

In a new clip, the 17-year-old singer gets the assistance she’s looking for from veteran host Woody Harrelson. “I hosted [in] ’89, ’92, ’14, so I know my way around this place,” Harrelson brags.

There’s just one problem: she wasn’t alive for two out of his three SNL gigs.

“You should’ve been, you missed a lot of good years,” Harrelson told her, before they took a tour of Studio 8H. Eilish is the “new kid” in the school of SNL, and she meets the stereotypical jocks (Colin Jost and Michael Che) and an overeager class president candidate (Heidi Gardner).

Eilish’s SNL episode, which will serve as the show’s 45th season premiere, airs this Saturday on NBC.

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Meanwhile, Eilish is one of Marie Claire’s 25 Women Changing the Future.

The singer is named “The Renegade” in the mag’s October issue, and answers some questions about her vision for the music industry going forward.

As for where she would want to see the music industry 25 years from now, in 2044, Billie says she hopes “that people like what they like and not what other people like.” To make that vision a reality, Billie says, “I’ll keep doing what I do.”

She adds that being in a woman in the industry is one of the biggest challenges she faces and that hopefully “that dies down” in the next 25 years. Billie said her fans give her hope for the future and that she hopes the legacy she leaves behind is: “That doing whatever you want actually works sometimes.”

Billie is joined in the issue by environmental activist Greta Thunberg, gymnast Simone Biles, grown-ish actress Yara Shahidi and more.