At 20, Eilish has won Grammys and an Oscar, yet even after all that she seemed surprised to find herself a Coachella headliner.
, the video screens caught her still wrapped in an oversized coat, a big grin beneath her shaggy bangs.is the youngest headliner in the history of the long-running event. And despite the fact that she’s already earned more Grammys than she can hold, and just won an Oscar, it was clear throughout her set that she couldn’t quite believe this was happening to her.The smiles never left her face.
With her band tucked at the top of a ramp at the back of the stage, Eilish cut a tiny figure against the hugeness of her backdrop. But she’s been on stages for years now, and as she slipped into “I Didn’t Change My Number” and “NDA,” there was no nervousness evident. The singer Khalid joined Eilish for “Lovely,” and later her brother Finneas, who has collaborated with her musically for years, did a mini-set of acoustic guitar-driven songs, “I Love You” and “Your Power.”
For the lovely “Getting Older,” the video screens played home movie clips of Eilish as a child, though midway through she was joined by“This is the craziest ever,” Eilish said as she stood beaming next to Albarn. “My first favorite band was the Good, the Bad and the Queen when I was 6 years old. Then Blur and Gorillaz changed my world. Y’all, what the ? Where do I go from this?”
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