For a human being, only 24 years old to have already achieved huge success in music at the level of Billie Eilish is most likely unprecedented. Eilish has already won ten Grammys and two Academy Awards for Best Original Song, the youngest person to ever win this award. She has performed in huge concerts around the world, where her fans are as devoted and rabid as Taylor Swift’s.

During Eilish’s performances for the concert movie “Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft”, her fans know every lyric to all of her songs and sing along with her for every performance, many of them crying. After the concert was over, almost all of her fans, most of them young women, were still crying profusely, as if they had just seen the greatest performance in their lives. Many of Eilish’s songs are somewhat slow and sad, making the emotional impact on her audience greater than most other performers, with the possible exception of Taylor Swift.

Eilish’s achievements at such a young age, even caught the eye of the great director James Cameron, who directed this impressive concert movie, which shows from the beginning the huge logistical effort it takes to assemble the scaffolding, lights, sound, and software within a huge concert venue. Then all of these man-hours of construction and testing have to be taken down, then driven by trucks to be reassembled in another huge stadium. For this tour, this happened an incredible 106 times with 1.5 million attendees grossing 225 million dollars worldwide.

Everything about Elish’s performances is highly unusual, including lying down on stage while singing and looking up at the sky. She wears loose-fitting athletic shirts and pants, a baseball cap, and continuously walks around the huge stage. At times, Eilish takes the risk of stepping into the audience to shake many hands. Eilish, along with her brother Finneas, writes all of her own music, another thing she has in common with Taylor Swift. It is hard to imagine a life like this to be so rich and world famous at such a young age, with so many millions of fans so devoted. Then to have the amazing ability to stand in front of so many thousands of people and remember all of the lyrics to so many songs. Also, like Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish has not let her huge success go to her head, and she also seems like a well-adjusted, normal person.

There are several scenes of Cameron and Eilish directing this concert movie, which also include several interviews in which Eilish is asked by Cameron to give her own perspective on her incredibly blessed life.

I put this concert movie on a par with “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” concert film, released in 2023. I agree with the 90% ratings on Rotten Tomatoes and give a high recommendation to this movie.