Glastonbury Festival announced that Billie Eilish, 19, will be the youngest headliner ever in 2022
,"This feels like the perfect way for us to return and I cannot wait!" The iconic English festival has been on ice for two summers -- 2020 and 2021 -- due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, missing out on what would have been its 50th anniversary last year. Unable to gather again this year, organizers produced a filmed event,, that featured sets from Coldplay, Idles, Michael Kiwanuka, Wolf Alice, Damon Albarn, Jorja Smith and Haim, as well as as the Radiohead side project The Smile.
In addition to making history, Eilish will be the event's first female headliner since Adele did the honors in 2016; Taylor Swift was slated to headline one of the nights of the pandemic canceled 2020 festival. Eilish stormed the Austin City Limits stage in Texas over the weekend, revealing that she almost bailed on the gig to protest the state's restrictive new abortion law. Instead, Billie used the opportunity to share her candid thoughts on the controversial measure enacted in September that prohibits abortions after about six weeks, a time when many women are not even aware they are pregnant; the law makes no exceptions for rape or incest.
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