The Palau Sant Jordi is ready to receive Billie Eilish. The Californian artist acts this weekend – on the 14th and Sunday, June 15 – in Barcelona, the only Spanish stop of her tour Hit me hard and softwith tickets exhausted for months. What will be seen on stage is an immersive show, with acoustic parts and a 360 degree scenery. But what will happen around the concert will go further: it will be a communion with thousands of young people who have grown up listening to her and who recognize her as more than a pop singer.
His third studio album, published just over a year ago and written again with his brother and producer Fins, includes songs such as Blue, Chihiro either Birds of A Feather that have consolidated her as a world star. The evolution of its sound, more melodic and sensual, has not been at the expense of the emotional intensity that distinguishes it from its debut. Eilish has always managed to move between genres fluently: from the dark minimalism of When we all fall asleep, where do we go? to the confessional classicism of Happier than Everthrough his pioneering presence on platforms like Colors, where he dazzled before many knew their name.
The thousand faces of Billie: Sexy, Ephollona or Pandillera
Today, with 23 years, Billie Eilish has reached an unusual balance between mass success and artistic integrity for such a young artist. In a saturated panorama of pop stars, she has managed to stay faithful to a unique sensitivity that mixes vulnerability, irony and self -confidence. Its impact is not limited to music: it has also contributed to transforming the way new generations are related to image, desire and identity. In a world of overexposure, Eilish has made privacy and contradiction a value. It is one of those women capable of changing the world with what they put on, and not for following trends, but for disassembling them: with giant sweatshirts and pants and retro lingerie, but always with the same freedom to show sexy, earse, androgynous, androgynous or gang, as he wants.
That freedom has not been free. In a recent interview with the Vogue British, Eilish spoke bluntly about the body, the desire and the need to like it: “It has cost me a lot to find myself comfortable with myself. I am still in it. But every time I care less like to like or not like it.” That openness has served to exercise as An emotional mirror for generation Z. His songs speak of heartbreak, anxiety, self -esteem or desire with clarity that avoids both empty slogan and postmodern cynicism. In a world marked by doubt, she has built an aesthetic of the contradiction: intimate and spectacular, Gothic and tender, hypermodern and age without age.
New life with his new boyfriend: Nat Wolff
His personal life has also evolved without feeding virality and headlines. Only a few weeks ago Eilish confirmed his new relationship with actor Nat Wolff -Hramano de Alex Wolffknown for interpreting the unfortunate rod of the protagonist of the terrifying Hereditary– With whom he has been seen in a relaxed and complicit attitude. Gone are other more conflictive relationships, such as the one he had with Jesse Rutherford, vocalist of The Neighbourhood. That story was an example of how media scrutiny can even tighten the most private relationships. Now it seems that the tone is another: less drama and more balance.
The concerts in Barcelona will arrive accompanied by a special security device for the coincidence with the Sónar, and with an express call from the artist to use public transport or share a car to reduce the carbon footprint. Part of the benefits will also be used for organizations that they fight against food insecurity and climate change. They are small details but revealing of a work ethic that has accompanied Eilish since its inception, when he was still a teenager composing from his room.
What will be seen this weekend in Montjuïc is not just the passage of a world tour. It is the confirmation of an artist who has managed to grow with his audience, to change without betraying, and stay in the center of pop culture – there is his iconic collaboration with Charli XCX – without becoming a cartoon. In a galaxy, that of music, full of artifacts designed at the blow of algorithm for viralization, Billie Eilish is a voice, a gesture, a way of being in the world. That’s why he keeps exciteing every time he sings short I’M not your friend or anything, damn.
