Billie Eilish speaks out on Roe v. Wade during Glastonbury set
nme.comBillie Eilish has spoken out against the overturning of Roe v. Wade during her Glastonbury headline set.Tonight (June 24), Billie Eilish has made history and become the youngest ever solo headliner of Glastonbury Festival, joining Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar at the top of the bill.Opening with ‘Bury A Friend’, her set included tracks like ‘NDA’, ‘Oxytocin’ and ‘You Should See Me in a Crown’. “Are you ready to have some fun?” she said, before launching into ‘My Strange Addiction’.Joined by her brother Finneas, the pair played ‘Your Power’ together on the stage with acoustic guitars.“It’s about the concept of power and how we always need to remember not to abuse it,” Eilish said. “Today is a really really dark day for women in the US.
And I’m just going to say that because I can’t bear to think about it anymore in this moment.”Eilish joins multiple musicians in sharing her reaction to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v.
Wade today (June 24), including Taylor Swift who tweeted: “I’m absolutely terrified that this is where we are – that after so many decades of people fighting for women’s rights to their own bodies, today’s decision has stripped us of that.”The overturning of the landmark case means abortion will no longer be protected as a federal right in the US for the first time since 1973, and each state will be able to decide individually whether to restrict or ban abortion.glastonbury.
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