Billie Eilish is seeking to rock the vote forward of the midterm elections subsequent Tuesday.
On Friday, the 20-year-old singer posted a video urging her followers to indicate up on the polls. And whereas Eilish did not make any particular candidate endorsements, the California native made it clear the place she stands on vital points like abortion rights.
“I need to clarify why I’m voting this 12 months, and the way vital I believe it’s that you simply vote too,” the “Dangerous Man” singer informed followers within the video. “I have a look at what’s on the poll and what’s at stake, and it scares me.
“Our rights, our freedoms and our futures are on the road, and if we do not present up, there’s a good probability we are going to see a nationwide ban on abortion, with no exceptions,” she continued. “In addition they need to take away the liberty to marry who we love, prohibit voting rights and enact legal guidelines that threaten the progress that have to be made on local weather change. The one method to make sure of the long run is to make it ourselves, which is why we should vote on or earlier than Nov. 8.”
Eilish hooked up a photograph of herself together with her household — together with brother Finneas and his girlfriend, Claudia Sulewski — as they dropped off their ballots. “It was really easy,” Finneas, who gained a Finest Unique Tune Oscar alongside his sister earlier this 12 months, commented on his personal Instagram web page.
Eilish requested her followers to make their very own voting plans, signing off with an empowering observe: “Let’s present them what our energy seems like,” she mentioned.
The pop star’s message comes simply over a 12 months since she blasted Texas’s abortion legal guidelines whereas performing on the Austin Metropolis Limits music pageant final October.
“Once they made that s*** a legislation, I virtually did not need to do the present, as a result of I wished to punish this f*****g place for permitting that to occur right here,” she informed the group. “However then, I remembered that it is you guys which are the f*****g victims, and also you deserve all the things on the planet.”
Eilish defiantly raised her center finger and shouted, “My physique, my f*****g selection!” in the course of the present, throughout which she additionally railed towards local weather change deniers.
“For those who don’t assume world warming exists, you’re a f*****g loser,” the Grammy winner mentioned.
