What's up doc!: Billie Eilish Cancellation

sábado, 9 de agosto de 2025

Billie Eilish Cancellation - Music

I never thought I'd have to write about a 23-year-old girl who is a huge artist and who doesn't know me at all. Amazingly, there's a Billie Eilish cancellation because, according to some very poorly (un)educated people, she's a racist!?

I don't have any affinity with her, I don't even know her personally, but the ease with which such a serious subject can be used to hurt someone is really disturbing. I've seen so many horrible things said and so many lies on social media that to be surprised that there's an attempt to cancel the biggest artist of our time might smack of naivety on my part - I know!

Billie Eilish is probably the singer with the most promising future. All the countries want her, all her fans want her to perform in their countries and there were also, I think, some fans who interpreted her not going to their countries as an attack on their identities and nationalities. There can be very complex or very simple reasons for the decisions she makes for her “HIT ME HARD AND SOFT-THE TOUR”. She's not coming to Portugal... And how I wish she would. I went to see her in Lisbon, but I'll never think that the reason she's not coming is that she doesn't like Portugal or the Portuguese people. I think that being a fan is very, very good, but we will never be in the shoes of those we idolize.

The most absurd thing about all this is that Billie Eilish isn't racist! And why do I know this?

- She took to the streets to manifest for "Black Lives Matter"

She is sharing on her social networks ways to help people in the Gaza Strip;

- She is one of the most vocal about climate change;

- She is also vocal and critical of the politics in her country...

Billie Eilish is being canceled because she said in Ireland that she was of Irish descent - Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell was her real name - and that she felt comfortable among her peers. She suffers from Tourette's syndrome, and I'm sure what she really meant was that she wasn't used to seeing an audience that was so much like her, or she just wanted to be nice to the people who came to see her, as she does at all her concerts. Here there was a question of family and belonging, even though she wasn't born in Ireland.

Once again, slander tries to demean and stifle a person with a big heart. She's not just an artist, but an artist, a woman who lives in her world and isn't afraid to take sides for those who need it most. Billie Eilish is needed in the world we live in, and we are lucky to have her at this time... We need more people like her!