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Billie Eilish & Sabrina Carpenter call out Trump, comfort fans after election
The pop princesses, who are both currently on tour, had a few choice words about the recent presidential election.
Pop stars are mourning alongside the many Americans who voted against a bigoted, fascist, rapist but still woke up to see him get elected president earlier this week.
Billie Eilish, who is queer and often speaks out about feminist issues, got emotional at her concert in Nashville this week following the election of Donald Trump.
At her Nashville show (of the Hit Me Hard & Soft tour) on Wednesday, November 6, Eilish got emotional several times, making a big speech about her feelings before she performed her song "Your Power," in which she sings "How dare you? And how could you? Will you only feel bad when they find out? If you could take it all back, would you? Try not to abuse your power."
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"Waking up this morning, I kinda couldn't really fathom doing a show on this day," Eilish struggled to say at the show. "But the longer the day went on, I kind of had this feeling of like, 'It's such a privilege that I get to do this with you guys and that we have this time in a time like right now.'"
"And I just love you so much, and I want you to know you're safe with me, and you're protected here, and you are safe in this room," she continued, starting to tear up.
"The song that we're about to do is a song that my brother Finneas and I wrote many years ago, and it's about the abuse that exists in this world upon women and a lot of the experiences I have gone through and people I know who have gone through. You know, to tell you the truth, I have never met one single woman who does not have a story of abuse. Not one."
"You know, I've dealt with some stuff myself, and I've been taken advantage of, and I've been… you know. My boundaries were crossed, to say it politely. And now a person who is a, let's say convicted predator, let's say that. God my heart is beating fast. Someone who hates women so, so deeply is about to be the President of the United States of America," she said. "This song is for all the women out there. I love you, I support you."
She also got emotional while performing her song "TV," where she paused after singing the lyric "the internet's gone wild watching movie stars on trial while they're overturning Roe v. Wade."
But Eilish wasn't the only one to talk out her post-election feelings with her fans.
Sabrina Carpenter, who is traveling the country on her Short n' Sweet tour, also sent a message of love to her female fans at her concert last night in Seattle.
"I feel so sorry for our country and all the women here, I love you so, so, so much," Carpenter said. "And I really hope that the rest of the night you can enjoy yourselves because you absolutely deserve it."
Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée.
Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée.
