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Evening Standard
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Evening Standard
Billie Eilish says Met Gala images of her are fake: 'I wasn't even there!'
The What Was I Made For? singer is currently in the midst of her Hit Me Hard and Soft world tour and was performing in Amsterdam at the Ziggo Dome on May 4 and 5, with another concert scheduled for May 7. Logistically, it would have been near impossible for her to jet to New York and zip back to Europe in time.
Perth Now
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Finneas wants children before he dies
Finneas would be 'really sad' if he had no children before dying. The 27-year-old singer-songwriter - who is the brother of pop superstar Billie Eilish - feels he has had a "lucky life" so far thanks to accolades including 10 Grammy Awards, but he knows he'd regret it if he doesn't go on to have a family of his own. He told the i newspaper: "If I only had six months to live, the only thing I'd be really sad about would be not getting to have kids. "I'd say, 'Oh, that sucks.' "Everything else, I'd be like, 'Man, I had such a lucky life.'" While Finneas and Billie have a close relationship, both personally and professionally, he admitted it is difficult for them to go out together because the 'What Was I Made For?' hitmaker always attracts so much attention, they end up having to "run away". He explained: "I'll plan out a thing for us to do. "I'll be like, 'It's dark out, let's take the dogs on a walk.' "And she's just so famous, man. "We have to run away. It's crazy." When he was 12, Finneas did a songwriting session with his mom, and it resulted in him joining his high school band, The Slightlys. And in 2015, he wrote the song, 'Ocean Eyes', and he gave it to Billie because he felt she sang it better than him. After uploading the end result to SoundCloud, the 23-year-old music icon became a household name, and Finneas said she knows her global fame is both a blessing and "a curse". He said: "It's a gift and a curse that it's all she knows. "She doesn't have that grief of suddenly not being able to go to a grocery store. She never did it. "She does a pretty good job of having a self-sufficient life, all things considered." And Billie previously revealed she and Finneas can "read each other's minds". She told British Vogue: "I mean it's the sibling thing, you know? 'We look at each other in silence and we both know we're thinking the same exact thing. It happens constantly, especially with other people around. He can also read my mind when writing and creating together. He knows what I'm thinking and feeling before I even know it."
Daily Mail
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Olivia Dunne issues tearful goodbye to gymnastics in retirement announcement
shed a tear as she officially bid farewell to gymnastics in an emotional video after announcing her retirement from the sport. Dunne, who had long been expected to retire after her eligibility with the Tigers ended, revealed last week that her gymnastics career is over after LSU's national title bid ended in defeat. The TikTok sensation had five seasons with LSU, instead of the traditional four, due to being in Baton Rogue during the Covid-19 pandemic. Her announcement marks the end to her 20-year journey in the sport. After calling it quits, Olivia reflected on some of her career highlights as part of a farewell video put together by the Tigers, which eventually left her in tears as her emotions took over. In the video, Olivia said: 'Time flies when you're having fun,' as What Was I Made For? by Billie Eilish plays in the background. The sports star continued: 'Something said when you're enjoying yourself to the point time seems to slip away from you. And that's exactly how the past 20 years in this sport have felt. 'The highs, the lows, making the USA national team and competing for our country, every risk was worth the reward. Finishing my career over the past five years of the best university in the world has been an incredible journey, and I'm forever grateful.' Olivia added: 'Gymnastics, you have filled my heart and shaped be a part of me. You've shaped me into the person I am today, creating memories and sisterhoods that will last a life support. You are my first love. 'To my family, especially my parents. Thank you for everything, for supporting me through it all, and to my childhood coaches from New Jersey and the LSU coaching staff, thank you for pushing me to be great. and yes, time did fly by, and I will cherish every memory for the rest of my life. 'Thank you for everything gymnastics. You were so good to me.' After the footage concluded inside the PMAC, Olivia was visibly emotional, knowing that her athletic journey had reached its end. She became one of the most well-known faces of college sports during the NIL era as one of the top earners, regardless of gender. She had an NIL evaluation of more than $4million, per On3Sports, which is more than double that of the current highest-earner, fellow LSU star Flau'jae Johnson. Now the social-media beauty can start her professional career, expanding on the NIL deals she had not under the NCAA's umbrella.
The Guardian
18-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Billie Eilish review – snarls, seduction and moments of sheer rapture
Where do you go as a pop star when you've already hit the top? Maybe you flame out and move to Vegas. Maybe you launch a billion-dollar makeup line and never perform again. Maybe you re-record all your hits, take the world's biggest victory lap and break a seismological record. If you're Billie Eilish, you burrow deeper. You continue transcribing the deadening thrum of fame, the banality and brutality of public opinion. You keep excavating all your quivering neuroses until you're in a crater of your own creation. Or – as on the cover of Eilish's 2024 album Hit Me Hard and Soft – you're submerged in a bottomless well, grasping for the surface. Not that those anxieties stop you from putting on an arena spectacular. At Brisbane's Entertainment Centre, the first stop on her Australian tour, Eilish moulds the room like putty. Often it feels like a cult gathering. Every second attendee is dressed in some variation of their idol's signature silhouette: tiny hat, giant shorts, wireframe glasses, sports jersey. Some have been camping outside for days in flimsy tents. Midway through, Eilish demands total silence for a rendition of her 2018 single When the Party's Over – and the 10,000-strong audience complies, bound in suspended animation for the better part of a minute. Later, during the lovelorn belter The Greatest, Eilish soars on a pedestal far into the air: a glorious new-age leader exorcising her heartache – and ours – to the firmament. The sheer rapture feels new for an artist who has often spoken about the tolls of performing. 'I didn't realise that I could make touring enjoyable,' Eilish said in a Vogue profile last year. 'I just was very lonely for many years, and I'm not interested in that any more. I want to enjoy the show.' Enjoy she does. Frequently, she breaks into a sprint around her figure eight stage, circling her live band in infinite loops. This is her first tour without her brother and longtime producer, Finneas, though his absence – with apologies – is hardly noticeable. Eilish swerves, vaults and ducks between hyaline screens that partially obscure her figure, resisting the glare of the spotlight. At times she's a blur of splayed limbs – and then she picks up the camera, her face suddenly gargantuan and duplicated around the stadium. It's a canny cat-and-mouse game and a nod to the themes she has written about her entire career: the trapdoors of visibility, the futile dream of privacy. And her star has only continued to rise since she was last in Australia in 2022. Her doleful Barbie contribution What Was I Made For? made her the youngest person to win two Oscars (after her first victory for the Bond theme No Time to Die). Then came the blockbuster Birds of a Feather, a song about a self-immolating crush that now has more than 2bn streams on Spotify. As expected, both those tracks are lodestones on the setlist, rousing a crowd that's otherwise somewhat subdued – or 'polite', as Eilish puts it euphemistically. (It's a Tuesday night; they might be forgiven.) Even so, there's no resisting the bawdy allure of Lunch, Eilish's sapphic provocation which has the entire audience – hilariously – chanting each come-on at full volume. Equally invigorating is her verse on the Charli xcx collaboration Guess: a lascivious ode to lacy undergarments that turns the arena into a rave worthy of its colossal, squelching bass. Throughout, there are hints of Eilish's earlier trademarks. The macabre streak which underscored much of her debut record snakes through the show: the flash of a slithering alligator on screen, or the menacing mosquito synths of her early single Bury a Friend, amplified with literal pyrotechnics on stage. But this is a tour that makes room for evolution. Eilish's delivery on Guess – a seductive deadpan – is a far cry from the gauzy whisper on which she made her name. Elsewhere, on Hit Me Hard and Soft closer Blue, she snarls in a sinister baritone; halfway through L'Amour De Ma Vie, a poison pen letter to a former flame, Eilish stretches her voice through Auto-Tune, elasticated and crackling over a dance breakdown. These tracks feel as stochastic as the weather. They enter noiselessly, then – buoyed by a rapid gust – they shudder and skyrocket. When you've already hit the top, you just keep going. Billie Eilish is performing in Brisbane until 22 February, Sydney 24-28 February and Melbourne 4-8 March
