Billie Eilish brings her intimate tone to Lollapalooza

The American singer Billie Eilish made her debut in Chile this Friday night at the Lollapalooza festival, which is being held in the Chilean capital this weekend, and she shared with the public all the intimate charge and warmth of her songs.

“Billie, hug me”: is the sentence read on the young woman’s poster Chilean it is in the first row of the concert, written on a piece of cardboard that she tirelessly held up for the singer to read; Billie Eilish was faithful to that message, and made a scene close to the public, earning the praise of those present song by song.

The American gave the Chileans a performance she owed them a long time ago: she had to made his debut in Chile in 2020. but that concert was canceled due to the covid-19 pandemic; the event never recovered, until this Friday, when it sold out the Lollapalooza festival grounds with tens of thousands of attendees.

Billie Eilish left her most rhythmic songs for both the beginning and the end the finale of the playbut he filled the central part of the ‘show’ with all his calmer, often sad melodic themes, which characterize his musical style.

Although the American ended the concert with applause and praise, the beginning was tortuous, with shouts about the poor sound quality from the right side of the stage, but also security problems due to the crowd that gathered near the stage, which are mostly teenagers.

Before Billie Eilish, the festival saved the penultimate order of the day for the second headliner this Friday: African-American pop and rap artist Lil Nas X, who, with eight dancers also of African origin, performed his performance with a very queer and energetic aesthetic.choreography.

‘We want to cry’

A good part of the public came to this Friday lollapalooza with the main claim of Billie Eilish, an artist of world fame who has never performed in Chile before.

The aide bought a ticket on Friday to see the American woman with her two sisters; The three fans have been singers for more than five years and were clear about what they were looking for: “We hope they will leave us crying,” she repeated to EFE before the concert.

The same was expressed to EFE Carolina Cataldo, who will go to lollapalooza to see Twenty One Pilots on Sunday, but she’s also a fan of Billie Eilish: “We want to cry to all her sad songs, scream and cry,” she said.

Cataldo traveled from the southern region of Magallanes, in the far south of the country, solely to attend the festival with two friends; Among the artists this Friday, along with Billie Eilish, she highlighted Pailita, an urban singer from Magellan who has gained fame in recent months: “He is from our region, we adore him,” she added.

Besides music, Lollapalooza has other things leisure activities in your premises, which the participants appreciate; In his case, Cataldo highlighted an initiative to sponsor a tree in south-central Chile, devastated by massive fires that hit the area in February and burned hundreds of thousands of hectares.

Lollapalooza, an international festival originating from NOW, It first expanded to Latin America with a release in Chile in 2011, and has since started new ventures in Brazil and Argentina, as well as various European countries.

This is how Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish closed the first day Lollapalooza Chile 2023but for this Saturday and Sunday, the event promises expected performances such as Rosalía, Drake, Tame Impala and Twenty One Pilots that will continue to fill the park space Bicentennial Cerrillos, south of the Chilean capital, with tens of thousands of visitors.