Billie Eilish has opened up on the special moment she heard her fans sing back her song ‘The Greatest’ to her for the first time.
The singer and her brother and collaborator Finneas appeared in an interview for Apple Music in which she was honoured as Artist Of The Year. During the chat, Eilish discussed the powerful connection she feels while performing ‘The Greatest’ live on tour and opened up about the emotional moment she experienced while singing the track live.
After being asked about what it feels like to be able to release emotions and share it with so many people, Eilish said: “When I did the first show of my tour that I’m on right now, specifically, ‘The Greatest’ just has a lot of—it’s just a special one to us, but I did ‘The Greatest’ and I took one of my in-ears out and I just like, heard this giant arena filled with people singing it.
“They were singing every other song too, but something about hearing that song that has this meaning for me and this memory for me, and also like the memory of us making it and what it gave us in our kind of creative spirit.”
She added: “And just hearing that crowd sing it, it really made me like, have, you know, in front of me proof. I could see it with my eyes, I could hear it with my ears. And that is something that I hold so close to me. And every time I get a chance to really see how what I do or whatever impacts people in real time, that’s the stuff.”
Eilish is currently on her ‘Hit Me Hard And Soft’ tour which is in support of her third album of the same name. In a four-star review of the LP, NME shared: “Billie came into this process with aspirations to find herself, creatively and personally: ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’ remains distinctly unique, a portrait of a singular talent entering young adulthood, exploring her queerness and experiencing the emotional thrill and (sometimes) catastrophe of chasing passion or falling in love. In trying to write an album for herself, she’s made one that will resonate harder than anything she’s done before.”
In other news, last night (December 17) Eilish brought out Charli XCX as a special guest to perform their ‘Guess’ remix at her show in Los Angeles.
Charli and Eilish’s ‘Guess’ remix is nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the Grammys 2025. The two artists are also competing for Album Of The Year, Record Of The Year, Best Pop Solo Performance and more.
Elsewhere, her song ‘Birds Of A Feather’ was recently named as the 12th best song of 2024 by NME. Her album ‘Hit Me Hard And Soft’, which was also named in NME’s list of the Best Albums Of 2024, coming in at Number Nine.
