Billie Eilish, erotic double being in the Wiener Stadthalle – Diepresse.com
At her first appearance in Vienna, Billie Eilish, control star of the Generation Z. was hard and tender and thankfully avoided all political statements.
Yes, Billie Eilish now looks like she had just run out by the postler and, to cover the worst naks, quickly overturned a little. Both the green and the wrong blonde in the main hair are now gone. For this, two braided braids dangled under their baseball cap during their Vienna debut. The legs were in cycling pants, their feet in sneakers. The only eccentric accessory was the glove on her right, which charmed with a poison -green bone application. A charming memento mori.
Valating like the cover that the British fashion magazine « Vogue » once made of her, in which she staged the then teenager in the pin-up aesthetics of the 1950s. In the meantime, she no longer poses in corset and suspenders, but has made her androgynous style a benchmark. On the last « Vogue » cover, she wore glasses that looked like health insurance, but probably owe a seizure of sophisticated designer lightness.
Such balancing act is also important for your shows. Like their songs, they are a masterpiece of balanced dynamics. A crucial moment is the beginning. The type of appearance specifies the pulse. In the beginning there was not the light in the Vienna Stadthalle, but a cocoon technoid riot. This prelude seemed like a thunderbolt pulled in length. Noise as protection against the expected shrill reaction of the approximately 15,000 fans. They had acquired the license to screech with the admission ticket and took this option mercilessly.
« Chihiro »: Search for a teenager
The stage in the middle of the room was gigantic. Two recesses were embedded in the ground in which musicians and background singers had their office. In the middle there was a veiled cube. The appearance of the star was expected exactly there. And so it came too. The now 23-year-old American showed « Chihiro », which has the spiritual search of a teenager on the subject and is probably inspired by the Japanese cartoon of the same name. Like its protagonist Chihiro, the real Billie Eilish has matured at the frequency festival since her first appearance six years ago by encounters with ghosts and demons. With her public coming of Age, she became the control star of a generation called Z, her music for her soundtrack on the journey into growing up. « Don’t make me a role model just because I turn on you, » said Eilish in the German « Vogue ». Turn on? That sounds more disreputable for Austrian ears than it was meant.
And yet it quickly got slippery in the town hall. Accompanied by a rapid technobeat, the second song went head across the erotic scenario of « Lunch », an ode to the Cunnilingus. « Oh, I Could Eat That Girl for Lunch, » enthused Eilish, looking for feelings with the archaic world of pheromones. « Yeah, she dances on my Tongue, Tastes Like She Might Be the One. » After a careful consideration, her Conclusio was determined: « Baby, I think you were made for me. »
Eternal youth, ancient knowledge
She ran jubilantly, an erotic double being, then her rounds close to the audience. Burschikoser whirlwind and sensitive girl in one person. “Fascinating”, Commander Spock would have said that he would have become visible to her. Billie Eilish is actually a kind of UFO, a very own way of life. The eternal youth lives in her voice, but ancient knowledge shines from her eyes. The stone alte and the blood boy mingle with her in an enigmatic way. From this « Je ne sais quoi » her charisma feeds. That always let her work between the songs. With erratic looks, she acknowledged the homage of her mostly female fans. Sometimes an uncontrollable twitch went through her lip meat. Then she remembered again and ran with springs in the ditch to confidently stuck the damp hands of her admirers.
Gone is the time when her older brother Finneas protected her at concerts. With this tour she is from the clutch of her family. Towards the end, she thanked this, but embedded in her lovingly rapped credits for crew and musicians. Even more important than the emancipation from the brother was that Eilish managed to overcome the image of the depressive girl who cries black tears. Unlike Amy Winehouse, she was able to pull herself out of the victim role. Today, the audience does not like to detect breastfeeding points, but accepts the change towards the vital. Your emancipation can also be sensually experienced by the fact that she arranges her fragile melodies live technoid riotous on sound carriers.
In a caustic voice over the cuddly hormone
Repertoire in the town hall she spanned a large arc from her first, with 16 published single « Ocean Eyes » to « What was I Made for? », Her contribution to Greta Gerwig’s « Barbie » film. Of course, not every favorite song could occur. « Billie’s Bossa » and « 8 » went painfully. For this, she paid homage to the cuddly hormone oxytocin with a snapping beat and caustic voice.
The visuals also shaped contradictions. One became an eyewitness to a struggle between water and fire, between introvert and aggression. The latter shone in the bright « Guess », a virtual duet with Charli XCX. Eilish is only interested in the concept of « Brat », that is, a continuous resistance. She preferred to raven from a state à la « Happier Than ever ». Despite wonderfully presented hits such as « Bad Guy » and « When the Party Is Over », the most intense part of the evening was the tender « skinny » that Eilish performed on the e-piano.
With the final number, the global « Birds of a Feather », the general solutions passed into something like collective bliss. The braids were already there. With open hair, Billie Eilish gently crept one last time for those who (rightly) make a cult out of her. The thunder of a confetti manon and a “Thank you, Vienna, I See You Next Time” marked the end. Probably also the beginning of a long relationship.
