Eilish’s tour to stop in San Jose for two shows
Billie Eilish is preparing to set off on a world tour supporting her highly anticipated third album, “Hit Me Hard and Soft.”
The 10-month tour is scheduled to kick off in North America in September and run through the summer of 2025 with stops planned across Australia and Europe. Along the way, Eilish is scheduled to play two nights in the South Bay at the home of the San Jose Sharks, SAP Center at San Jose, on Dec. 10-11.
The track list for the new 10-song album includes titles such as “Skinny,” “Lunch,” “L’Amour de Ma Vie,” “Blue” and “Wildflower.” But the Grammy- and Oscarwinning singer-songwriter has opted not to release any singles before the album’s release on May 17.
“Every single time an artist I love puts out a single without the context of the album, I’m just already prone to hating on it,” Eilish told Rolling Stone. “I really don’t like when things are out of context. This album is like a family: I don’t want one little kid to be in the middle of the room alone.”
Tickets for the “Hit Me Hard and Soft” tour go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, May 3, via Eilish’s website.
To deter scalpers, Eilish will utilize Ticketmaster’s Face Value Exchange, allowing fans unable to attend shows to resell their tickets at the original price.
The 22-year-old pop star told Rolling Stone that “Hit Me Hard and Soft” returns to the darker themes of her first album, 2019’s “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?”
“I feel like this album is me,” she said. “It’s not a character. It feels like the ‘When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?’ version of me. It feels like my youth and who I was as a kid.
“This whole process has felt like I’m coming back to the girl that I was,” she continued. “I’ve been grieving her. I’ve been looking for her in everything, and it’s almost like she got drowned by the world and the media. I don’t remember when she went away.”