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Pop icon’s physical intensity makes a healing connection “I ghosted my therapist to see you,” read a handwritten sign held high at the front of the mosh pit for the first night of Billie Eilish’s biggest Australian tour yet.
To be sought out as the unofficial shrink for almost 20,000 screaming fans would come with incredible pressure, especially for someone who’s not yet old enough to legally drink in her home country, but it’s a role the 20-year-old American pop icon embraces with grace and empathy.
Eilish built numerous therapeutic moments into her 90-minute set: at one point she asked the crowd at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena on Tuesday night to stand up and bounce around to release any anxiety or stress, and paused mid-song during You Should See Me in a Crown to encourage raw, guttural screams from her audience.
“I want us all to feel loose and free tonight,” she said, lovingly. This is the...