Billie Eilish took a second throughout her Nashville live performance Wednesday evening to handle the consequence of the 2024 presidential election, which noticed Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris.
Throughout the present Eilish spoke to her followers and defined how she was feeling when she wakened to the outcomes.
“I kind of couldn’t really fathom doing the show on this day, but the longer the day went on, I kind of had this just feeling of like it’s such a privilege that I get to do this with you guys and that we have this in a time like right now,” the Grammy-winning artist, who beforehand endorsed Harris, mentioned. “I just love you so much, and I want you to know that you’re safe with me, and you’re protected here, and you are safe in this room.”
She defined that she was going to carry out a music she wrote along with her brother and frequent collaborator Finneas O’Connell that’s about the “abuse that exists in this world upon women” and the experiences she and folks she is aware of have gone by way of.
“To tell you the truth, I’ve never met one single woman who doesn’t have a story of abuse,” Eilish mentioned. “I’ve dealt with some stuff myself, and I have been taken advantage of, and I’ve been, you know, my boundaries were crossed, to say it politely.”
The Oscar winner continued, “Now a person who is a convicted, uh, let’s say convicted predator. God, my heart is being fast. Someone who hates women so so deeply is about to be the president. So this song is for all the women out there.”
Eilish then carried out her Happier Than Ever monitor “Your Power,” which begins with the lyrics, “Try not to abuse your power / I know we didn’t choose to change / You might not wanna lose your power / But having it’s so strange / She said you were a hero, you played the part / But you ruined her in a year, don’t act like it was hard.”
“We are voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz because they are fighting to protect our reproductive freedom, our planet and our democracy,” Eilish mentioned when she endorsed the vp. “Vote like your life depends on it, because it does.”
O’Connell added, “We can’t let extremists control our lives, our freedoms and our future. The only way to stop them and the dangerous Project 2025 agenda is to vote and elect Kamala Harris.”
The “Birds of a Feather” artist had beforehand posted on her Instagram Story earlier in the day, writing, “It’s a war on women.”
At her personal live performance in Seattle on Wednesday, Sabrina Carpenter additionally seemingly addressed the election consequence.
“I hope we can be a moment of peace for you, a moment of safety,” she mentioned onstage. “Sorry about our country and to the women in here I love you so so so so so much, and I really hope for the rest of this night that you can enjoy yourselves because you absolutely deserve it.”
Earlier this week, nonprofit Headcount, which partnered up with the “Please Please Please” singer throughout her Quick n’ Candy tour, introduced she registered extra voters than another artist, coming in at 35,814 voters, with an extra 263,087 voters engaged outdoors of registering.
