{"id":426435,"date":"2026-05-13T23:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/426435\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T23:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:59:10","slug":"billie-eilish-makes-the-case-for-phones-at-concerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/426435\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Eilish Makes the Case for Phones at Concerts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phones have a place at concerts, Billie Eilish<\/a> argued in a new interview with NME.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy generation and the generations below, we love to film stuff,\u201d Eilish said while promoting her new concert movie<\/a>. \u201cAll I do is film stuff and take pictures of everything all the time.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI guess some people do it for clout or whatever, but who cares?\u201d she continued. \u201cIt\u2019s like you want to share what you experience. And for me, I mean, when I would go to concerts or festivals, I would film every single minute of it, and you know what I would do? I would watch every single video that I took over and over and over and over until I had this audio of the crowd memorized.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an important part of the culture that we are all on our goddamn phones and it keeps us connected, you know? It does. It\u2019s like yes, there are huge cons and social media is dark, but we get to share through the internet \u2014 and I wouldn\u2019t have a career without the internet. I wouldn\u2019t have fans. I wouldn\u2019t have the connection that I do without the internet to them.\u201d Check out the interview below.<\/p>\n

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Phones at concerts have been a constant and controversial topic over the last month, between the frozen Coachella audience at Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter<\/a>, to the, uh, fan? who gave Bring Me the Horizon\u2019s singer a concussion<\/a> by hurling their phone at his head. For her part, Carpenter sounds open to banning phones<\/a>, except she\u2019s afraid it would \u201chonestly piss off my fans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phones have a place at concerts, Billie Eilish argued in a new interview with NME. \u201cMy generation and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-426435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}