Posted 0 minutes agoSubscribe to BuzzFeed Daily NewsletterCaret DownBillie Eilish's Comments About It Being "Really Cool" To Be Surrounded By People Who Look "Exactly Like" Her In Ireland Were Taken Completely Out Of ContextThe viral video conveniently cuts just before Billie drops the self-deprecating punchline.by Stephanie SoteriouBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink 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. Gareth Cattermole / Getty Images For reference, the 23-year-old star is currently in the midst of her Hit Me Hard and Soft world tour, which kicked off back in September.
And on Saturday, the show arrived in Ireland for two dates at Dublin's 3Arena venue - and American-born Billie was excited to be in the Emerald Isle due to her Irish ancestry. However, a comment that the singer made at one of her weekend shows sparked backlash when it was later shared to X. In the clip, Billie tells the cheering crowd: "As you know, I'm Irish, so it's cool to be here." TikTok @lucie.loire / Via tiktok.com "Obviously I'm not from here, duh," she went on. "But it's really cool to come somewhere and everybody looks exactly like you."Billie Eilish celebrates return to Irish homeland. "It's really cool to come somewhere and everyone looks exactly like you". pic.twitter.com/uCXGOj5miy- Gearóid Murphy (@gearoidmurphy_) July 28, 2025 TikTok @@lucie.loire / Via tiktok.com 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." Jeff Kravitz / Getty Images Another popular tweet echoed: "crazy fucking statement to make as a fucking white woman." And one more claimed: "Billie really said 'wow that's a lot of white people, i like it here!'" 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. Jon Kopaloff / Getty Images 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!" TikTok @lucie.loire / Via tiktok.com 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." Nbc / Getty Images 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." Complex / Via youtube.com Replying to the full video, one person admitted: "I do agree that the sentence on its own sounds dumb as hell, but context matters." You can watch the uncut clip below - let me know your thoughts in the comments!cutting the video on purpose just to get people to come for her and call her a racist and a nazi for no reason at all is SO weird? maybe try logging off this app u need it https://t.co/fgGymLJ9m6 pic.twitter.com/6QAhgvEOTR- sara (@bizzleeilish) July 28, 2025 TikTok @lucie.loire / Via x.com