If you sawBillie Eilishperform atCoachella 2022, you may have been fooled — for a moment.
During an interview withMatt Wilkinson on Apple Music 1released Tuesday ahead of Eilish’s headlining set at the 2022 Glastonbury Festival, the 20-year-old Grammy winner revealed she used a “body double” for part of her performance at Coachella in April.
The “NDA” performer then spilled the details about using a decoy during the festival. “The beginning of Coachella, I had a body double, one of my dancers for the show,” recalled Eilish. “I dressed her up in a show look that I had worn before. We got a black wig and we put buns in it and we gave her a mask and sunglasses and she wore my shoes and my socks.”
Billie Eilish and Hayley Williams.Amy Sussman/Getty
“I put her up at the back of the stage and she stood there while the lights went on and everybody thought it was me,” she continued. “And nobody ever knew it wasn’t me, literally nobody knew. And while she’s up there, I put on a big black coat and a traffic vest and a hood and just glasses.”
Videos from the performance show an Eilish-resembling individual standing at the back of the stage during the introductory sequence featuring elements of “Oxytocin” and “Happier Than Ever,” but the musician’s face isn’t seen until about two minutes into the set, when her 2019 single “Bury a Friend” begins playing.
“It was pretty random actually. Nobody thought about it,” she told Wilkinson. “Our plane was delayed a couple weeks ago and we were sitting outside somewhere, and I was just listening to songs that I have written and never did anything with like all in my phone and my voice memos and stuff.”
Billie Eilish.Kevin Mazur/Getty Images
Eilish continued, “I found a couple songs and I was thinking about these songs that we have written. And I was like, ‘Wow, I really love these songs.’ I just had this idea of like, ‘What if we just did them live?'”
Until the concert, she hadn’t performed an unreleased song live since 2018’s “When the Party’s Over” and spoke about how different it feels to debut new music in front of a live audience. “We write music, and I want it to come out without having to [prep] and [do] months and months of promo for something,” she said.
“I just want to be able to put music out like I used to. I think the bigger you get the harder that seems,” added Eilish. “So I kind of was like, ‘I just want to be able to go back to my roots and be the songwriter that I am and that Finneas is and sing the song that we just wrote and put it out whenever it’s done.'”
The song sits in a similar sonic vein as Eilish’s 2021 single “Your Power” with its understated instrumentation, and she utilizes her signature soft vocal style to communicate melancholy feelings about the world at large.
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The song’s chorus sees the musician seemingly sing about a new relationship and the impact it’s having on her platonic friendships. “All of my friends are missing again / That’s what happens when you fall in love / You don’t have the time, you leave them all behind / You tell yourself it’s fine, you’re just in love,” she croons.
“The internet’s gone wild watching movie stars on trial,” she adds, seemingly nodding toDepp and Heard’s much-discussed court casebefore referencing the highly-publicized impending SCOTUS decision, “While they’re overturning Roe v. Wade.”
source: people.com
