A lot has happened since way back in 2018.
we first reviewed a 16-year-old Billie Eilish during a small club show at the Great American Music Hall in San FranciscoShe’s won a boatload of Grammys, Oscars and other awards, sold zillions of records, garnered tens of millions of fans and, in general, lived up to our initial reaction to that early San Francisco show that the young pop vocalist could well become “the next big thing.” (Yes, we got that prediction right. So, let’s just focus on that one instead of the much longer list of the ones we’ve got wrong.)
, managing to become one of the biggest stars in the pop music universe without sacrificing an ounce of her artistic integrity or conforming to ill-fitting expectations from the entertainment industry.
And Billie Eilish has certainly done it her wayThe person who showed up to play the first of two very sold-out shows at the SAP Center in San Jose on Tuesday (Dec. 10) was still the same person who delighted a few hundred fans at the Great American Music Hall some six years ago.
There were no choreographed dance routines or costume changes, like you would see at gigs from pretty much all of Eilish’s pop music contemporaries. She just showed up in a Polo Sport shirt, baggy shorts, bunched up white gym socks, black high-tops and — exhibiting incredibly good fashion sense — the classic green-and-yellow A’s cap (worn backwards), and proceeded to charm the crowd with plenty of personality and solid versions of nearly two-dozen songs.
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