Inexperienced Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong praises “superior” Billie Eilish after FireAid collaboration
Inexperienced Day frontman has spoken about collaborating with Billie Eilish on the latest FireAid profit live performance, calling the singing “superior”.
Eilish joined the trio for a efficiency of their 2009 track ‘Final Night time On Earth’ on the Kia Discussion board in California final week. The star-studded present raised funds to help the victims of the Los Angeles wildfires, and assist forestall future blazes within the space.
Armstrong and co. later shared a picture of themselves backstage with Eilish, writing: “It was an absolute honour to play @fireaidla final evening.
“We had the perfect time with our buddy @billieeilish, who joined us for ‘Final Night time On Earth’. LA, we’re sending all our like to you. You may nonetheless donate to fireplace aid efforts at fireaidla.org.”
The frontman has since recalled the team-up throughout an interview with Billboard on the Grammys 2025, the place Inexperienced Day misplaced out on the Finest Rock Album award to The Rolling Stones.
“It’s humorous, when [Eilish] first began popping out, I noticed some footage of her on Instagram – I noticed some merch, and there was a scarf that mentioned ‘Billie’ with an ‘ie’, and I mentioned, ‘I’ve to have that!’” Armstrong informed the outlet.
“After which so she despatched me a bunch of merch that had ‘Billie’ on it, and I used to be like, ‘Sure!’”
He continued: “I noticed her play a few instances and he or she was incredible, and also you simply knew one thing particular was gonna occur together with her. However the truth that we acquired to play collectively… she’s a fairly superior younger woman, and it was an honour to have the ability to share the stage together with her.”
Again in 2019, Armstrong and Eilish interviewed one another in a particular version of Rolling Stone journal.
“I do know this sounds [weird], however I all the time gravitate towards music that feels like freedom,” Armstrong informed her on the time.
“And that’s what I get out of your music. It’s like an earnest individual that’s expressing themselves and incorporating new sounds. A few of it feels like jazz to me, if that’s cool to say?”
Eilish mentioned that ‘Dookie’ was one in all her favorite albums, and in a later interview with NME, Armstrong defined: “Her brother Finneas got here to one in all our exhibits and Tré [Cool, drummer] gave him a pair of sticks when he was, like, 12 years outdated.”
Along with being nominated for Finest Rock Album (‘Saviors’) on the Grammys 2025, Inexperienced Day have been additionally within the operating for Finest Rock Tune (‘Dilemma’) and Finest Rock Efficiency (‘The American Dream Is Killing Me’).
Eilish was up for seven awards together with Album Of The Yr (‘Hit Me Laborious And Gentle’), however in the end went dwelling empty-handed. The singer carried out stay on the ceremony, taking to the stage for ‘Birds Of A Feather’.
The pop star’s brother and collaborator Finneas has urged followers to keep away from entering into “fights with different artists’ followers in remark sections” after Eilish misplaced her Grammys 2025 nominations.