Billie Eilish: The best friend next door

Billie Eilish receives a warm welcome at her concert in Berlin. Her fans wave, cry, bob, and even sing along to the second part without asking them to. At one point, the singer asks them to do the impossible.

It's arguably Berlin's second-most famous wall—marked simply as the " Billie Eilish Wall" on Google Maps. The singer posed here in front of a poster for her first album in 2019; today it's a place of pilgrimage. A few meters away, hundreds of fans in black hoodies and bandanas await her on camping chairs and picnic blankets outside the Uber Arena, 36 hours before the gates open. Anyone who wants to understand what Billie Eilish means to her often young fans has to read the scribbles on this wall. The same message recurs over and over again: "Billie, you saved my life."