Billie Eilish: What is her filmed concert worth "A Love Letter to Los Angeles" to see on Disney+?

There are more and less in the concert of Billie Eilish filmed at the Hollywood Bowl of Los Angeles, which we looked at for you.The one hour show is available from Friday September 3 on Disney+.

"Welcome.It's Billie.This is the first time that I have played my whole album from start to finish.So good concert! ".This is a sentence that Billie Eilish had not been able to pronounce for almost 18 months, when his tour had to be stopped after a few dates in March 2020 against the advance of the COVVI-19.Since then, the 19 -year -old American singer has released a second album in the heart of summer, Happier Than Ever.So, failing to be able to applaud it in real life, the concert filmed "Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles", that Disney+ offers from Friday September 3 is an opportunity to appreciate the live aspect of thisnew opus.HAPPIER Than Ever: A Love Letter to La |Official Trailer |Disney+

Always so singular on his second album

In the album Happier Than Ever, Billie Eilish takes a few distances with her childhood nightmares, these monsters she detailed on her first album ... and wakes up in another nightmare, less dreamlike, that of the throes of love noShared and the complicated daily life of an early star with 18 million albums sold crumbling under the Grammy Awards, subject to the constant and ruthless look of fans and media.The young prodigy in full ripening continues to share in songs her emotions and her reflections, often abruptly lucid, with disarming honesty.Musically, this new album sees it evolve and progress without letting go of its singularity, abandoning the hip-hop trap rhythms which dominated the first in favor of a certain musical diversification.Dominated by a slow rhythm, very little compatible radio and therefore risky, the disc is treated with a few strokes of hectic, co-orchestrated and gelled master of master by his brother Finneas, a capital partner always in the shadow of his little onesister (Finneas co-written and has produced all her songs from the first day).

A sober show punctuated by animated seynettes

The concert takes place at the Hollywood Bowl, an amphitheater in the open air and iconic concert hall of Los Angeles, her hometown, to whom she dedicates this show.The decor and the very sober scenography are based only on a set of lights, evolving from bluish to the glowing according to the climate of the songs.If it allows you to appreciate the new Hollywood blonde of the beautiful revealed last May on the highly commented coverage of the British edition of Vogue, Billie sticks to a minimalist black outfit and does not change the whole show.The only effect added by production for the film: an animated Billie avatar, much less captivating than the real one, which, plunged into the real decor of the City of Angels, regularly punctuates the show and underline certain climates - scowfled at the wheel of the wheel'A racing car or feared with angels wings...

Two good reasons to see this concert filmed

But do not leave because there are at least two good reasons to see this concert filmed.The first is the participation of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Gustavo Dudamel, present on a good half of the show.With his sumptuous arrangements, the Philharmonic and his dozens of musicians of excellence offer Billie a setting of choice for his velvet voice but above all an extraordinary majesty to his last songs, bringing them closer to the year last year for the credits ofNext James Bond, no time to die.A good part of the album is thus imbued with a glamorous and cinematographic depth of the most beautiful effect.The second good reason is to appreciate how Billie Eilish, known for his sensual murmurs more than for his trunk, plays today with his voice.As we notice on her new album, the young singer gained insurance on this side there.She explores more than in the past the different textures of her voice (she recalls Jorja Smith on Lost cause for example), finally takes pleasure in modulating it (vibrant on your power and almost jazz on the wonderful my future), and do not hesitateMore to show the strength, as when she explodes on the cathartic finale of the Happier Than Ever-song.On stage, it moves!

A big downside

There is however a major problem at this filmed concert.The absence of audiences and interaction with fans is sorely felt.Compared to her previous concerts, rather athletic, where she was cavity, turned and went in contact with the crowd, the singer is here in sobriety and restraint.The cameras may move, they cannot replace the sweat and fervor of admirers, and Billie, capable of giving everything to his audience, sometimes seems in sub-regime without the support of this mirror-fuel-fuel.We expect all the more impatience to its arrival scheduled for June 22, 2022 at the AccorHotel Arena in Paris (already complete).Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles, the filmed concert of Billie Eilish at Hollywood Bowl is available on Disney+ from Friday September 3, 2021