Billie Joe Armstrong says it was an “honour” to perform with “pretty awesome young lady” Billie Eilish.
Billie Joe Armstrong has hailed Billie Eilish ‘a pretty awesome young lady’
The 52-year-old rocker’s band Green Day duetted with the ‘Birds of a Feather’ hitmaker on their 2009 track ‘Last Night On Earth’ at the FireAid benefit concert for victims of the Los Angeles wildfires at the Kia Forum on January 30.
And pop punk veteran Armstrong has now spoken about being a huge fan of the 23-year-old pop megastar and how they bonded over their shared name.
He told Billboard: “It’s funny, when [Eilish] first started coming out, I saw some footage of her on Instagram – I saw some merch, and there was a headband that said ‘Billie’ with an ‘ie’, and I said, ‘I have to have that!
“And then so she sent me a bunch of merch that had ‘Billie’ on it, and I was like, ‘Yes!’”
He added: “I saw her play a couple of times and she was fantastic, and you just knew something special was gonna happen with her. But the fact that we got to play together… she’s a pretty awesome young lady, and it was an honour to be able to share the stage with her.”
The pair previously interviewed each other for Rolling Stone magazine in 2019, during which the ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’ hitmaker explained why he is so drawn to the ‘Bad Guy’ hitmaker’s music.
He told her: “I know this sounds [weird], but I always gravitate toward music that sounds like freedom.
“And that’s what I get from your music. It’s like an earnest person that’s expressing themselves and incorporating new sounds. Some of it sounds like jazz to me, if that’s cool to say?”
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