Billie Eilish has insisted there’s nothing wrong with fans watching gigs through their phones, arguing it’s simply how her generation experiences music.<\/p>\n
In her new 3D concert film Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour, the 24\u2011year\u2011old pop powerhouse is surrounded by fans filming every second – and she insists that’s simply the modern concert experience.<\/p>\n
Speaking to NME, the singer said: “I just think that’s what it’s like. My generation, and the generations below, we love to film stuff. All I do is film and take pictures of stuff \u2013 all of the time.”<\/p>\n
She said she grew up doing exactly the same thing, long before she was headlining arenas.<\/p>\n
Billie continued: “When I was young and would go to concerts or festivals, I would film every single minute of it \u2013 and then I would watch every single video that I took over and over until I even had the audio of the crowd memorised.<\/p>\n
“I think that’s not to be pooh-poohed. An important part of the culture is that we are all on our goddamn phones! It keeps us connected. It does!”<\/p>\n
Billie also stressed that the internet is the reason she has a global fanbase at all after going viral with her song Ocean Eyes in 2015.<\/p>\n
She said: “I wouldn’t have a career without the internet. I wouldn’t have fans. I wouldn’t have the connection that I do without the internet.”<\/p>\n
Away from the debate over phone use, the 22\u2011year\u2011old confirmed she’s already deep into her next album, the follow-up to 2024’s Hit Me Hard and Soft.<\/p>\n
She revealed she is “right in the middle” of the new project and has been spending most of her time in the studio.<\/p>\n
She teased: “We are working on new music. It’s happening. It’ll be a second but we’re deep in album mode and it’s really fun.”<\/p>\n
Billie admitted the sessions have been unusually smooth so far.<\/p>\n
She explained: “It’s actually really fun. We’re having a really good time which maybe means it’ll be really s*** because [it’s rare that I have] a good time [while making an album]\u2026 But we’re right in the middle of it and it’s feeling really good.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billie Eilish has insisted there’s nothing wrong with fans watching gigs through their phones, arguing it’s simply how…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[10052,49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-657942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-billie-eilish","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}