Released without the usual pageantry, two new surprise singles show Glastonbury’s youngest solo headliner agonising over the things she holds dear
On Billie Eilish’s recent European tour – including her history-making set as Glastonbury’s youngest solo headliner – she has said she was struck by the dissonance between the euphoric crowds and the desolate news coming from her native US.
“I would mention some stuff about the state of home and it was just so weird to be in a place where they weren’t having to deal with that,” she told Apple Music. “Then I was thinking back to everyone at home and just being like, ‘Wow, what the fuck? What’s going on?’”