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Hoda Kotb, Jenna Bush Hager Cosign Billie Eilish on long concerts
Billie Eilish is not the only one who thinks three-hour concerts can be a lot.
Earlier this month, the 22-year-old pop star made headlines for calling long concerts “psychotic.” She told fans via a Stationhead app Q&A: “I’m not doing a three-hour show. Nobody wants that. You don’t want that. I do not want that. As a fan, I don’t even want that. My favorite artist in the world, I try not to hear them for three hours.
Hoda Kotb agreed with Eilish’s criticism during the Tuesday, May 28, episode Today with Hoda and Jenna. “I think a three-hour concert is a long time. …Because they usually save the really great ones [songs] before the end,” she explained to her cohost, Jenna Bush Hager. “And you go, ‘Ugh,’ because sometimes it’s like there’s some good ones and some aren’t, and then you wait, wait, wait for the big one at the end.”
Bush Hager, 42, shared her feelings, noting that “three hours is a very long time to do just about anything.” However, Bush Hager joked that some of the things she and Kotb, 59, would like to do during that time include reading on the beach and enjoying a nature walk.
Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish, both precocious child prodigies turned global, Grammy-winning pop superstars, have had a long, overlapping history. Swift and Eilish, who released their debut albums at 16 and 17 respectively, have regularly celebrated each other’s successes within the industry. Swift even passed the baton to Eilish at Billboard’s 2019 […]
Many fans interpreted Eilish’s comments as a joke Taylor Swift‘S The Eras tourin which she performs songs from all her eleven studio albums over a nearly three-hour running time.
Kotb and Bush Hager, big Swifties, were both there The Eras tour last year with friends and family and excited about the show at the time. For her part, Bush Hager stated that she was “sore” after her concert, but then praised the 34-year-old Swift for her endurance.
“I’m not even Taylor, I didn’t do anything and I was like, ‘How is she doing this?'” the TV personality explained on Tuesday. “If you think about what she does, it’s amazing.”
Swift updated her recently Eras tour show with songs from her latest album, The department of tortured poets, in the set list. The album, released last month, beat Eilish’s new record: Hit me hard and softfor the number 1 spot Billboard‘s 200 albums list. According to Billboard, TTPD is the first album to spend five weeks at number one in the charts since then Morgan Wallen‘S One thing at a time in 2023.
Ahead of Eilish’s latest album release, she criticized music artists in an interview in March for releasing multiple vinyl versions of their albums. Billboard. “It’s so wasteful, and it irritates me that we’re still at a point where you care so much about your grades and you care so much about making money — and it’s all your favorite artists doing that,” she shared. the outlet.
Several of Taylor Swift’s famous friends and fans showed up to shake it down during the singer’s highly anticipated The Eras Tour. The stars of Swift’s “Bejeweled” music video – Este Haim, Danielle Haim, Alana Haim and Laura Dern – were among the thousands of fans in attendance at the tour’s opening night in Glendale, Arizona. […]
Her comments upset some Swifties, who quickly took to social media to defend the Grammy winner for releasing several vinyl editions of TTPD. Eilish responded to the drama via her Instagram Story last month, writing, “Okay, it would be so great if people would stop putting words in my mouth and actually read what I said in that billboard article. I didn’t single out anyone, these are system-wide issues across the industry.”
She continued, “When it comes to variants, so many artists are releasing them, including myself, what! clearly stated in the article. … The climate crisis is happening now and it’s about all of us being part of the problem and trying to do better, sheesh.”
