Billie Eilish spoke at the Grammy Awards. And a whole lot of wealthy old geezers listened, complained and, well, they ought to be ashamed.
That’s the gist of a message posted by Finneas on Instagram Stories, following his sister’s rousing speech Sunday, Feb. 1 at the Grammys.
“Seeing a lot of very powerful old white men outraged about what my 24 year old sister said during her acceptance speech,” he writes. “We can literally see your names in the Epstein files.”
A gold rush wasn’t expected, but that’s what panned out as Eilish came out on top in the Grammys song of the year category for “Wildflower,” from her 2024 album Hit Me Hard and Soft. With that win, the pop superstar added an 11th golden gramophone to her imposing tally, and used the platform of her speech to put the Trump administration on blast.
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Eilish took the stage with her writing partner, musical foil and brother Finneas, to accept the award from songwriting legend Carole King.
“As grateful as I feel, I honestly don’t feel like I need to say anything but that … no one is illegal on stolen land,” she remarked. “And, yeah it’s just really hard to know what to say and what to do right now,” continued Eilish, who, like many in the audience at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, was wearing an “ICE Out” pin as part of a protest against Trump’s immigration enforcement surge, which in January resulted in the killing of two American citizens by immigration enforcement agents.
“I feel really hopeful in this room, and I feel like we just need to keep fighting and speaking up and protesting. Our voices really do matter and the people matter,” Eilish continued. She sounded off with, “And f–k ICE is all I wanna say, sorry.”
As previously reported, Eilish has spent the past several weeks vocally criticizing the Trump administration’s immigration actions, calling ICE a “terrorist group” after its killing of 37-year-old poet and mother of three Renée Nicole Good, and blasting the organization’s Minnesota operation while accepting the MLK Jr. Environmental Justice award in January.
Finneas, too, has been vocal about ICE and the hypocrisy of conservative commentators.
The producer, songwriter and artist stepped in, and promised to keep speaking up, when USA Today published an op-ed titled “PSA to celebs: Stick to performing, stay away from politics,” written by Ingrid Jacques.
In a Threads post, Finneas writes: “You just can’t do both. You can’t say it doesn’t matter what musicians or celebrities say or think but then talk about it for days. You’re out here making it matter. I’ll keep speaking up especially if it keeps bothering you.”
