On Monday, Billie Eilish was causing a stir on social media after an eyebrow-raising clip from one of her recent Dublin concerts emerged online.
In the clip, Billie tells the cheering crowd: “As you guys know, I’m Irish, so it’s cool to be here.”
The video has already been seen more than 33 million times since it was posted just one day ago, with tens of thousands of people quick to share their reactions in the replies and quote tweets.
Needless to say, there were a few jokes that instantly went viral, with one quote-tweet quipping: “y’all got white people dressed like Fat Joe in ireland?”
However, others had a more concerning interpretation of Billie’s comments, and one tweet that has been liked more than 172,000 times at the time of writing reads: “Everyone here is white like me.”
But it turns out that this hugely viral clip was actually taken completely out of context, with the video cutting just before Billie drops the punchline to what was obviously a self-deprecating joke related to stereotypes around Irish people.
In the full video, Billie is poking fun at how pale she is, with her entire quote actually being: “It’s really cool to come somewhere and everybody looks exactly like you... You’re all just as pasty as me!”
Fans of Billie will know that she often jokes about how pale she is — something that she even referenced during her 2021 Saturday Night Live monologue, where she quipped: "I know I look like I’ve been locked in a basement for 17 years.”
And during her appearance on Hot Ones, she confessed: “I’m so pale that you can literally see every vein in my body when I get hot.”
