Billie Eilish, like any decent pop singer, understands what to do when a bra is thrown at her onstage: strut around with it hanging from your finger, of course.
A few underwear dropped onto the stage as she was dashing through the second song of her set—the slithering “Lunch.” For ninety relentless minutes, the disciples aggressively hopped, fist-pumped, and mimicked Eilish’s hand gestures—just one token of adoration from a sold-out crowd.
22, the multiple-Grammy-and- Oscar winner, revealed her amazing in-the-round performance Friday, the first U.S. leg of her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour. Through December, Eilish will tour venues all throughout the nation, doing numerous nights in different towns before traveling to Australia and Europe in 2025.
Her multimedia playground, a slick behemoth with a lighted cube with a floating platform for Eilish to perch atop, speakers dipped from their suspensions, scooped-out sections for the band, and busy video screens blasting to every side of the venue makes up the football field-sized stage of this new tour.
Eilish looked like the Sportiest Spice of her generation with her mismatched tube socks, dark jersey sporting number 72, backward baseball cap. But the Eilish touch was really shown by the biker shorts and fishnets covering her casual-cool outfit.
Three albums by Billie Eilish highlight honesty
She is not artificial in her work. When she promises supporters at the end of the concert, “I will always cherish you,” there is no doubting her degree of sincerity. I will fight always for you. She is really committed, building into the scream of “The Greatest.” After romping over the pyro-spewing “NDA,” no exploring the cause of her wrinkled nose smile.
Eilish lays out who she is and that vulnerability is rewarded with a fan that heeds her demand for a minute of stillness so she may loop her vocals for a wonderfully layered “Wildflower” and spring into the air during the blooping piano riff of “Bad Guy.”
Eilish, whose taut band consisted of none save brother Finneas, off doing promotion for her new solo record pulls evenly from her three of studio releases for this tour behind her third album, “Hit Me Hard and Soft.” She swaggers through “Therefore I Am” and invites fans into her goth club for “Happier Than Ever’s “Oxycotin.”
Her 2019 debut album, “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?,,” is embodied with a flash of lasers and a piano-based “Everything I Wanted,” which saw Eilish loping around the inside of the stage gates to brush hands with fans. The murky feel of “Bury a Friend” and a piano-based “Everything I Wanted,” found Eilish loping around the inside of the stage gates to brush hands with fans.
And the show-closing “Birds of a Feather, which receives much of attention, flaunts the soulful swagger that roils into a pop banger- called “L’Amour De Ma Vie,” as well as the most opulent song in Eilish’s history.
Eilish’s ‘What Was I Made For?’ soars.
Her voice ping-pong from under the swarm of noises from her party songs to the honeyed tone of her ballads, so Eilish deftly blends the Nine Inch Nails-inspired industrial beats of “Chihiro” with the swoony “Ocean Eyes.”
Eilish sat at one end of the platform, the arena shimmering in Barbie-pink lights, and spat the first whispery words of “What Was I Made For?” as the quick show tailed to its finish. Though its popularity, she has not discounted the depth of the song; this live performance gives the Weeper the pulse of a drumbeat, transforming the award-winning song into a soaring stadium power ballad.