If you ever experience self-doubt, uncertainty, mistreatment, sadness, alienation, shame or confusion, Billie Eilish sang you a tune at her headlining performance on the opening night of Lollapalooza in Grant Park, writes critic Bob Gendron.
Tems performs during day two of Lollapalooza on August 4, 2023, in Chicago’s Grant Park.
During a pause on Thursday, Eilish explained her new hair color and gushed about dying her roots red. She expressed similar delight over being able to play with her brother and creative partner, Finneas O’Connell, who handled guitar and keyboard duties. Eilish also spoke of herin 2018 and thanked her parents. If you’re thinking those sentiments seldom pair together, you’d be right. But this wasn’t a typical festival-headlining concert.
Eilish’s aural noir pulsed with tension and anticipation. It seldom offered a complete release or peaceable conclusion. Rhythms contorted and twitched; insular beats rumbled and snapped; tweaked keyboard lines sounded like water drops. On-screen projections glitched and distorted in step with the music, suggesting brokenness, doom, illness, user error. Songs could have come with a warning: Dance at your own risk.
The more uncomfortable or difficult the subject, the more Eilish succeeded. Her beautiful, bracing rendition of “What Was I Made For?” simultaneously challenged customs and expressed insecurity. Few Lollapalooza headliners expose themselves in such a vulnerable manner — or sung with such audible inhale-exhale discipline. Eilish’s fearlessness stamped the downscale “When the Party’s Over” with related purpose.
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