by Casey DiBari
Just in case you missed the memo.
On January 27th, American singer Billie Eilish rereleased her concert movie, “Billie Eilish: Live at the O2” in response to it being nominated for Best Music Film for this year’s Grammy’s. And, of course, fans were more than excited to go and watch.
Some, though, may have taken it too far.
If you go on TikTok, you might see a few videos of fans at the movie theater, all of them standing, singing, and cheering along with the movie. Like they might do at a concert venue. This understandably allegedly led to what we can assume were complaints from moviegoers in other theaters, and cinema staff had to step in for some of these incidents.
In one video, the poster shows a scene that you would believe was at a venue, and put on the video the words, “Not my theater pausing Billies movie to tell us to sit down”, while showing us the picture on the screen pausing, but not including what if any staff coming in to talk to them.
Another TikToker claims that she actually was asked to leave for acting like this, saying, “Guess who just got kicked out of the theater for the Billie movie cuz I was starting to MoshPit”.
In both instances, the creators show great annoyance at the staff coming in and asking them to calm down, with the latter even captioning their video with “Bro there was still 1h left. Im so sad i was literally just having fun. Bill would be very disappointed in the person who reported us.”
The problem seems to stem from Eilish allegedly telling fans to treat this movie as an actual concert, which they took to heart. It is currently unclear where Eilish reportedly said this, but either way, there is something that these fans seem to forget, that many are trying to remind them; Billie Eilish does not get to actually set the rules for movie theaters, and you are not actually at her concert.
The employees coming up to these moviegoers are not going to them to ruin their enjoyment of the movie. The actions of the fans, in actuality, are most likely ruining other people’s movie-going experience. Picture yourself in the theater trying to sit and watch something like Missing, and all you can hear is the theater next to you, screaming, singing, and cheering. You aren’t going to have a good time.
Truthfully, if you can’t make anything out other than yelling, you may even be worried.
While Eilish’s movie is out of theaters now, what we have to all remember for the next movie like this is that while yes, it is a concert movie, it’s not a concert. You are at a movie theater with other people in the building not there to be at a concert, as well as employees who probably don’t want to have to kick you out.
So please, respect those around you.
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