Billie Eilish Owes Music Love To Paul McCartney, Beatles

Final night, Billie Eilish introduced her skills to England for the yearly Glastonbury Pageant. This year’s edition was headlined by Eilish herself as perfectly as Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar, and for the showcase’s 1st night, Eilish shut points out with a grand overall performance at the festival’s Pyramid Phase. She’s Glastonbury’s youngest ever solo headliner and the to start with born soon after 2000 to prime the invoice. On the flip side, Paul McCartney is the festival’s oldest solo headliner after he turned 80 very last weekend. For the duration of an job interview with NME, Eilish expressed what it felt like to share a festival headlining spot with Lamar and McCartney and how the latter influenced her at a younger age.

“My title following to theirs and getting on the identical level as them… it is bonkers,” Eilish said, referring to Lamar and McCartney. “I remember Kendrick headlined a pageant I went to when I was 14, and I couldn’t imagine he was headlining this modest pageant simply because he was so massive. And now I’m headlining the exact competition as him and Paul McCartney… are you kidding me?”

She continued, “The Beatles were being what raised me. My enjoy for songs I experience 95 per cent owes to the Beatles and Paul. It is insane to think about.”

Talking of festivals, Billie’s functionality at Glastonbury arrives right after she admitted that she applied a physique double to sneak about Coachella previously this yr.