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Phones have a place at concerts, Billie Eilish argued in a new interview with NME.
“My generation and the generations below, we love to film stuff,” Eilish said while promoting her new concert movie. “All I do is film stuff and take pictures of everything all the time.
“I guess some people do it for clout or whatever, but who cares?” she continued. “It’s like you want to share what you experience. And for me, I mean, when I would go to concerts or festivals, I would film every single minute of it, and you know what I would do? I would watch every single video that I took over and over and over and over until I had this audio of the crowd memorized.”
“It’s an important part of the culture that we are all on our goddamn phones and it keeps us connected, you know? It does. It’s like yes, there are huge cons and social media is dark, but we get to share through the internet — and I wouldn’t have a career without the internet. I wouldn’t have fans. I wouldn’t have the connection that I do without the internet to them.” Check out the interview below.
Phones at concerts have been a constant and controversial topic over the last month, between the frozen Coachella audience at Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter, to the, uh, fan? who gave Bring Me the Horizon’s singer a concussion by hurling their phone at his head. For her part, Carpenter sounds open to banning phones, except she’s afraid it would “honestly piss off my fans.”
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