Billie Eilish joins Green Day for FireAid on ‘Last Night On Earth’

On By Littum

One of the major challenges faced by the events in Grammy Week, including the FireAID advantage, is how to set the right tone: How do you have a party event like Big Concert or Awards Show without apparent tone deaf for the tragedy and loss many joints In Los Angeles source fires that ravaged the city earlier this month?

Green Day and Billie Eilish gave a perfect answer in the opening song from the FireAID concerts-which is held at the same time at the nearby Los Angeles Arena’s Intuit Dome and Forum-Duetting on a 16-year-old Green Day song that, regardless, could have been written In this moment: “I’m here to honor you/ If I lose everything in the fire/ I send all my love to you.”

See it here

In an entertaining appropriate pairing, after the band’s Billie Joe Armstrong sang the first verse of the song, “Last Night On Earth” from the band’s album from 2009 “21 st century breakdown” verse and the rest of the song with the band.

Eilish left the scene to welcome after the song and Bay Area native Armstrong exhorted the crowd: “Los Angeles! We are still alive! We love Los Angeles and we have your back. “

The band continued the theme with their 2016 song, “Still Boating”: “I avoided a bullet and I walked across a land miner/ I’m still alive/ I bleed from the storm?/ Just shining a light into the wreck.” But They resumed their more well -known attitude with a powerful version of their 1994 classic “When I Come Around” before giving the stage to yet another Billy – presented Billy Crystal.