Billie Eilish “hit me hard and soft” tour and opens up about sexuality, fame, mental health

Billie Eilish is returning to the stage.

The singer announced an upcoming tour on Monday, pegged to her third studio album “Hit Me Hard and Soft,” which is set to release on May 17.

The tour of the same name will kick off in September in North American and run through to the end of December. Billie Eilish will then pick the tour back up in Australia starting in February 2025, followed by spring stops in Europe and the UK.

Presale tickets will be available on April 30, with additional presales running throughout the week. Any remaining tickets will be available during the general on-sale starting May 3 on her website.

Billie Eilish will continue her partnership with environmental nonprofit Reverb, which previously resulted in over $1 million donated to environmental, greenhouse gas reduction, and climate justice projects.

Efforts on this tour include reducing greenhouse gas pollution, decreasing single-use plastic waste, supporting climate action, and updating concession offerings to promote and encourage plant-based food options with Support+Feed, according to an announcement from Eilish.

Billie Eilish: I was never planning on talking about my sexuality

Ahead of the new album, the “What Was I Made For?” the singer said that she isn’t releasing any singles from it.

I don’t like singles from albums,”she said. Every single time an artist I love puts out a single without the context of the album, I’m just already prone to hating it.

This album is like a family: I don’t want one little kid to be in the middle of the room alone,” she added. Eilish spoke to Rolling Stone about how one song on the album in particular — titled “Lunch” — helped her open up about her sexuality.

That song was actually part of what helped me become who I am, to be real, Billie Eilish said. I wrote some of it before even doing it with a girl, and then wrote the rest after.

I’ve been in love with girls for my whole life,” she added. But I just didn’t understand … I was never planning on talking about my sexuality( billie eilish sexy life) ever, in a million years.

‘I’ve had some scary things happen in my personal life’

Reflecting on her success over the years, Eilish also spoke about her level of fame and how she sometimes overthinks what she shares with the world.

I feel like I’ve been beaten down to feel this way, she said. The way that the world has treated me into feeling extremely anxious about everything that I say. It’s really exhausting when anything I say can become a headline, completely taken out of context, and it leads to constant paranoia.

She said that her safety is also something she grapples with daily: I had some scary things happen in my personal life and my safety was compromised a couple of times, and that’s a big part of my life, she said. “That is something I just have to live with. But I don’t know, it really made me resentful of my life, when you can’t even be in your own house.

The singer said that these realities of fame have led to struggles with mental health, saying that she experienced depression last year that was “realer than it’s ever been.”

My whole life, I’ve never been a happy person, really,” she said. I’ve been a joyous person, but not a happy person. I experience joy and laughter and I can find fun in things, but I’m a depressed person. I’ve suffered with a lot of depression my whole life.

When things happen in my soul, or whatever, the thing I’ve always held on to is ‘Well, it’ll pass. It’ll come in waves and it’ll get worse and it’ll get better. and that’s always brought me comfort,” she added. and this time, I literally was like, I don’t care. I don’t even want it to get better.

‘I hit a turning point’

Eilish said her family, including her brother Finneas, and her best friend Zoe Donahue helped her cope with her depression, and despite the low points, she said she eventually “hit a turning point.”

I had this moment of, ‘Oh, my God, I haven’t had fun in seven years,'” she told the outlet. “Truly. I had this illusion that I had, because who experiences going to the Grammys at basically 17 and winning five?

But in life, I realized I had really not experienced that much,” she added. “I didn’t go outside for five years. How was I supposed to have any experiences? By not enjoying life as a young adult and not going out, Eilish said it fed into her obsession with being perceived as cool.

“That used to be a thing I would strive for,” she said. “I used to be so obsessed with this mysteriousness, and I think that’s 100% why I didn’t make any friends, because I didn’t want anyone to know me, because I wanted everyone to think of me as this mysterious, cool person.”

Eilish added that the upcoming album serves as a way to change that mindset and reflect who she is at her core.

“This album, to me, feels like a way to restart, in terms of my sharing,” she said