Okay. Hi, everyone. Coughthony Coughtano here, the internet's sickest music nerd. Okay, please allow me to talk about this topic now that I was hoping to do so in the middle of last week, but I was just not functional enough to do so. Thank you.

Billie... Billie Eilish, known by some as "silly" Billie Eilish. Seems everybody these days wants to know their favorite artist's political opinion. They want to know what their fave thinks about this or thinks about that, thinks about this other thing. What they are or are not standing for. Luckily, for anybody who's a fan of Billie Eilish though, you know exactly where her, and her brother too, stand on any number of issues:

"I'd say if you have money, it would be great to use it for good things and maybe give it to some people that need it. There's a few people in here that have a lot more money than me. If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? Yeah, give your money away shorties."

Most recently at the Grammys on the the Grammy winning winner stage. Billie and her brother made it known that they were not really big fans of recent tactics taken by the government via ICE and put out a very simple, straightforward, to the point statement about nobody being illegal on stolen land:

"I can't believe this. Everyone else in this category, you're so amazing. I love you so much. I feel so honored every time I get to be in this room. And 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. Yeah, it's just really hard to know what to say and what to do right now. And I just, I feel really hopeful in this room and I feel like we just need to keep fighting and speaking up and protesting. And our voices really do matter and the people matter and fuck ICE is all I want to say, sorry."

And while I, as a child of the 90s, never knew a time or a culture where America ideologically wasn't just absolutely head fucked on some level, personally, I saw this as a plain spoken, straightforward, pretty milk-toast statement in a way. Certainly the audience at the Grammys agreed.

So yeah, at the Grammys, in greater music fandom circles, this was not too crazy of a statement or anything like that. But if you were going by the reaction the far right media bubble online had, this was the craziest thing any celebrity could have possibly said in the history of the universe. Because this one little statement for Billie Eilish resulted in a week-plus harassment campaign that not only led to countless people across the internet insulting her intelligence, insulting her looks, putting through all of these ridiculous, ugly, humiliating AI image alterations.

Senator Eric Schmitt: "There can be no Grammys on stolen land. So I think, Billie Eilish ought to give the Grammy back and probably her mansion."

Bro, these weirdos were showing up at her fucking house.

GB News reporter Ben Leo: "Let us in, please, Billie. We are here because this is stolen land, Billie, and we think we should be given access to your quite lovely $3 million mansion."

All operating under the dumbass logic that appearing at someone's home and trying to make your way into their place illegally is literally the same thing as someone being undocumented in this country, which it is not. Those are both not at all the same thing, not even a little bit.

However, if you are a dumbass, smooth brain conservative with the logic skills of a four year old, I could see how you would get them mixed up. I mean, first off, speaking legally, breaking and entering into someone's home and being undocumented in America are not even the same type of criminal offense. Being undocumented or being illegal is a civil offense at worst. Meanwhile, breaking and entering into someone's home is a criminal offense, but also one that doesn't impact my legal status as a citizen, which is like what the whole illegal terminology is supposed to be dealing in, whether or not you are a legal citizen. This is not just semantics. There is a difference between doing an illegal action, like decapitating someone in the street, and having legal status as a citizen of a country. Those are not at all the same thing.

And for Billie Eilish to say that "no one is illegal on stolen land," that doesn't mean laws don't exist, and you can do whatever you want so long as the land is stolen, because illegal actions and illegal acts and illegal people, not the same. And just because you could put the "I" word in front of both of them doesn't make them equally bad either, because while it does it unequally much of the time, our justice system does sort of charge and convict for these different charges, felonies, misdemeanors at different levels depending on the extremity. So again, stupid dumbass logic from stupid dumbasses who voted for a pedophile.

Okay, I'm getting too spicy here, but this is another stupid argument that was lobbed at Billie for over a week with every conservative and centrist midwit saying that if she cares so much about land being stolen, so on and so forth, why doesn't she give up her giant mansion to the people who originally used to live in the plot of land where she is currently residing?

Now, I will say before I make my point here, a tribe that sort of lays claim to having roots in the area where Billie's home is at, they actually did come out with a public statement in support of Billie's words at the Grammys, and thought she was spitting and making good and fair points. And if you look at the fine print there, we're notably not asking her to relinquish her house, because truth be told, the suffering and unfairness that numerous Native American tribes suffered at the hands of the American government could never be undone by every single celebrity willing their homes over to them.

You're talking about generations of abuse, acres and acres and acres of stolen land. So you see how like none of that could be achieved or enacted simply by Billie Eilish handing her house over. Being a famous pop star only gives you so much power in the world. Not even the power to release the Epstein files completely, sadly. But yeah, between Bad Bunny and Billie Eilish, it's been a hell of a month for just making the simplest and most obvious of statements and just existing, and all of that just resulting in waves of hate and harassment.

And again, it's all very annoying and very much sucks. Because at this point when things are so horrible and so dire, politically and socially, I'll take a win just about anywhere, even if it's like some random celebrity just kind of saying the right thing, having like a pretty good take.

And I think the powers that be sense there are a lot of people that feel the same way and know how much outside influence someone like Billie Eilish, who has such a massive and young audience, can have just by saying one thing. So as a result of that, there's even more pressure and necessity to make sure that person is beaten and chased and yelled at and harassed into the ground because their greatest fear in the world is that what she's saying actually be taken seriously because she's right.

But I'm going to leave it there. Thank you all for watching. Appreciate it greatly.

Anthony Fantano, Billie Eilish, forever.