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“Collecting” is one of the most over -strained verbs of our time; Someone is always picked up somewhere, from a new record, from a seminar, from the daycare center, also “really good”. The undisputed master of the right-wing right pick-up is Billie Eilish. What she made effortlessly at a fan event last summer just a few Berlin streets in front of a few dozen chosen chosen, she also succeeds in 17,000 to the majority of as she dressed in the mighty Uber Arena.
It creates a community and gives the audience a feeling of belonging together. This is done in repetitions “I love you” that are common for US superstars. But you believe Eilish. Because physically she also looks for closeness to the visitors: inside. Would Michael Jackson be groomed in the middle of the hall like a square eight from a “Minecraft” game in order to clap as many fans as possible? Eilish really has a personal connection to the capital: in 2019, she crouched on a wall along the steps to the East Side Mall, in the immediate vicinity of the still preserved section of the Berlin Wall, in order to be photographed in front of a huge advertising poster of her debut album. Since then, countless greeting messages and confessions such as “I am Bi for Billie” have adorned this wall. Five years later, she returned to the scene, this time in front of a poster to her third album, and inaugurated a badge. Rarely did a wall of this city do so well!
Just a few meters away, the only 23-year-old takes her historical significance with a concert that takes your breath away. In a battle from laser beams, it appears under frenetic cheers on a podium, opens the show with “Chihiro”, which ends with its final beat ball in the first rave of the evening. Then her coming-out bang “lunch”, to which she runs across the stage to build bridges in all directions of the audience as quickly as possible.
Her band-for the first time tours Eilish without her brother and songwriting partner Fineas-is located in a kind of orchestra ditch, from which fire fountains are repeatedly ascending. The world hit “Bad Guy” is no longer the musical center of your show, half of the setlist is played without much excitement. The highlights include the overwhelming power ballad “The Greatest”, dramatically presented again on the podium, and the staging of your guest contribution on the remix of the Charli-Xcx bang “Guess”. First, the video runs on a gigantic screen, the arena is whitewashed into fried green-Eilish gives the scepter, the microphone, before shooting onto the stage to her part and turns the hall into a techno temple.
The wrong moment is when she asks the crowd by a minute of silence to record her own singing for a harmony loop. The otherwise every line, every bass run with roaring fans, actually change. Without exception. The storm that sparked when they can raise their voices is indescribable. Billie Eilish is already a figure of the century, the most important pop star in her generation.