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    Billie Eilish Hit Me Hard and Soft concert tour review

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    BALTIMORE — Like any good pop star, Billie Eilish knows what to do when a bra is thrown at her on stage: Of course, strut around with it dangling from her finger.

    She was singing the second song of her set, the raunchy “Lunch,” when a pair of underwear rained onto the stage. It was just an acknowledgment of the disciples’ affection in a sold-out crowd that bounced, fist-pounded and mimicked Eilish’s hand gestures nonstop for 90 minutes.

    The 22-year-old multiple Grammy and Oscar winner debuted her spectacular in-the-round production at CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore on Friday, the first U.S. date of her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour. Eilish will perform in arenas across the country through December, performing multiple nights in multiple cities before traveling to Australia and Europe in 2025.

    This new tour’s football field-sized stage is its multimedia playground, a chic behemoth with an illuminated cube with a floating platform for Eilish to perch on, speakers protruding from its suspension, hollowed-out sections for the band, and plenty of video screens beamed up all sides of the venue.

    With her mismatched tube socks, backwards baseball cap, and dark number 72 jersey, Eilish looked like the sportiest Spice of her generation. But the biker shorts and fishnet stockings that topped off her casual-cool look really showcased the Eilish touch.

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    Billie Eilish relies on authenticity, three albums

    There is no artificiality in her. There’s no doubt about her sincerity as she tells fans at the end of the show, “I’ll always appreciate you… I’ll always fight for you.” There’s no doubt about her commitment as she eases into the cheers of “The Greatest” gets involved. No question about the reason for her wrinkled smile after powering through the pyro-spewing “NDA.”

    Eilish lays out who she is, and that vulnerability is rewarded with a fan base that obeys her command for a moment of silence to repeat her vocals for a beautifully layered “Wildflower” and during the blooping keyboard riff of “Wildflower” in the air can jump. Villain.”

    For this tour behind her third album, Hit Me Hard and Soft, Eilish, whose tight band was without brother Finneas and is currently promoting his new solo album, is equally drawing on her trio of studio releases. She lures fans into her goth club with “Oxytocin” from “Happier Than Ever” and brags about “Therefore I Am.”

    Her 2019 debut album, “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” is presented with a laser flash and the somber mood of “Bury a Friend” and a piano-based “Everything I Wanted” that sees Eilish through the inside of the stage gates hopped to shake hands with fans.

    And her current release, which showcases the soulful swagger that segues into a pop banger – aka “L’Amour De Ma Vie” – as well as the most lush song in Eilish’s catalog, the show-closing song “Birds of a Feather.” “, received numerous reviews Spotlight Moments.

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    Billie Eilish shines on “What Was I Made For?”

    Eilish deftly balances the Nine Inch Nails-inspired industrial beats of “Chihiro” with the swooning “Ocean Eyes,” her voice rising from beneath the swarm of her club hits to the honeyed tone of her ballads.

    As the lively show neared its finale, Eilish sat at one end of the stage, the arena ablaze with Barbie-pink lights, and uttered the first whispered words of “What Was I Made For?” She hasn’t discounted the song’s depth despite its ubiquity, and this live version fills the weeper with the pulse of a drumbeat, transforming the award-winning song into a soaring arena power ballad.

    On stage, Eilish stays true to her album’s title, hitting fans hard and soft in all the right places.

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