Finneas O\u2019Connell took to social media to defend Billie Eilish and her Grammys acceptance speech from a specific demographic that was angered by her remarks. <\/p>\n
\u201cSeeing a lot of very powerful old white men outraged about what my 24 year old sister said during her acceptance speech,\u201d O\u2019Connell wrote Wednesday on Threads<\/a>. \u201cWe can literally see your names in the Epstein files<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n The sibling duo won the Grammy for song of the year<\/a> Sunday, becoming the first ever three-time winners of the category. The \u201cWildflower\u201d songwriters were among those wearing \u201cICE Out<\/a>\u201d pins at the 2026 Grammy Awards<\/a> as a statement against the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s immigration-enforcement agency and its tactics after the killings of Renee Good<\/a> and Alex Pretti<\/a> in Minnesota sparked a national outcry<\/a>. <\/p>\n \u201cNo one is illegal on stolen land,\u201d Eilish said while accepting the award. \u201cIt\u2019s just really hard to know what to say and what to do right now. I feel really hopeful in this room and like we just need to keep fighting, speaking up and protesting. Our voices really matter.\u201d <\/p>\n While some of her speech was censored during the live broadcast, Eilish was also heard saying \u201cF\u2014 ICE,\u201d drawing cheers from those in attendance. <\/p>\n Eilish was one of many artists<\/a> who used their moment on the Grammys stage to speak out against the Trump administration and the federal immigration raids that have been happening in multiple states, including California<\/a>. Some, including R&B song and performance winner Kehlani<\/a>, were just as direct in their language condemning ICE. Other winners, including Bad Bunny and Shaboozey<\/a>, used their speeches to celebrate immigrant communities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finneas O\u2019Connell took to social media to defend Billie Eilish and her Grammys acceptance speech from a specific…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[137194,1852,18962,146,31302,20060,143015,16011,143016,85,143018,46,71605,9135,409,91356,143017,125956,2702],"class_list":["post-277101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-alex-pretti","tag-billie-eilish","tag-department","tag-entertainment","tag-finneas","tag-grammy","tag-grammys-speech","tag-homeland-security","tag-ice-out","tag-il","tag-immigration-enforcement-agency","tag-israel","tag-killing","tag-minnesota","tag-music","tag-oconnell","tag-old-white-man","tag-renee-good","tag-song"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}