Billie Eilish leaves it all on stage during her concerts. But unlike some of her peers — or even elder statesmen like Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney — the “Lunch” singer isn't interested in promoting her concerts in the three-hour zone.
At a time when Taylor Swift regularly exceeds 180 minutes on her Eras tour, after Beyoncé also crossed the two-hour Rubicon on her 2023 Renaissance tour, in a pop-in chat with fans at Head of station app over the weekend Eilish was asked if her audience can expect this kind of epic Hollywood show in the upcoming Hit hard and soft tour.
“I'm not doing a three-hour show, that's literally psychotic,” Eilish said. fan recordings of comments. “Nobody wants that. You guys don't want this. I don't want this. I don't even want it as a fan. My favorite artist in the world, I'm not trying to listen to them for three hours. It's been too long”
While it appears Eilish won't be joining Swift for the three-hour concert marathon anytime soon, the two women were tied together on the charts when, last week, for the first time in eight years two albums earned more than 300,000 equivalent album units. in a week in the US, according to Luminate. On the most recent Billboard 200 album chart (dated June 1), Swift Department of Tormented Poets held atop the chart for a fifth consecutive and overall week with 378,000 earned in the week ending May 23 (up 45%), while Eilish's third LP debuted at No. 2 with a career-best 339,000.
Keeping her promise not to pass Oppenheimer– length productions, when Eilish was asked on Stationhead if fans can expect to hear all the news Hit me hard songs from her upcoming world tour – which kicks off in North America on September 29 in Quebec City – the singer said she “can't do that” because then her concerts would take “like a million years”.
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