If you haven’t watched it yet, forget my blog. Do yourself a favor and scroll down and click on the link below. Doesn’t matter if you are huge Billie Eilish fan, never heard of her, mid-tier fan, or thought her Grammy outfit looked like something out of “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure” (I personally LOVED the outfit but I love JoJo). I’ve listened to her album “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” but frankly I’m a bigger fan of Tiny Desk concert series on NPR than I am of Eilish. If you’ve never watched them and are even a small fan of pop music, I would suggest hitting up their archive.
But Eilish’s concert is something completely different that addresses our current situation in both form and in the actual time of the concert. Performed with her brother in front of a cardboard replica of the original Tiny Desk, Eilish does a rendition of “My Future” that slows down the tempo in for entirety of the song (as opposed to the record’s second half speed-up in temp). She also performs a pared-down keyboard only version of “Everything I Wanted”. Both are wonderful examples of what makes Tiny Desk so special – an intimate concert in a unique setting using stripped down arrangements which allows for a very different connection with the artist.
But the most memorable portion of the concert is neither one of her very excellent renditions. Instead it is when Eilish addresses the audience at home between the songs. It’s an honest moment where she relates that she’s been feeling the same way over the last 6 months that a lot of us have – and that I definitely have. Being isolated over the last year has meant less human connection for most of us. But Eilish’s honesty and inspired “concert” becomes a way to chip away at that feeling for all who watch.
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