{"id":1523,"date":"2025-05-27T02:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T02:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/billie-eilish-amas-artist-of-the-year-2025-1235981278\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T02:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T02:17:11","slug":"billie-eilish-amas-artist-of-the-year-2025-1235981278","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/billie-eilish-amas-artist-of-the-year-2025-1235981278\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Eilish Thanks Her Fans For Support While Accepting AMA for Artist of the\u00a0Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/billie-eilish\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/billie-eilish\/\">Billie Eilish <\/a>walked away with the artist of the year award at the 2025 American Music Awards, and in a remote acceptance speech, graciously thanked her fans for allowing her to make music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tJon Batiste awarded Eilish the artist of the year plaque at the AMAs on Monday (May 26) night, and in a heartfelt video message, she shouted out her supporters for showing love to her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cOh my God, artist of the year, this is so crazy,\u201d Billie said. \u201cI feel speechless, thank you all so much I love you so much. I wish I could be there tonight, I\u2019m on tour, getting to see you all over the world. Thank you to the AMAs, thank you to the fans, I know you voted for this. This means the world to me. I am so lucky to get to do what I do, and to do it with you! I love you all so much, thank you guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tEilish had to accept the award virtually because she\u2019s on tour in Europe, where she made waves online thanks to a stunning performance of Radiohead\u2019s \u201cCreep\u201d in Amsterdam. Earlier in May, Eilish <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/billie-eilish-covers-radiohead-creep-amsterdam-1235962567\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/billie-eilish-covers-radiohead-creep-amsterdam-1235962567\/\">delivered a rendition <\/a>of the rock band\u2019s signature hit, accompanied by two backup vocalists and an electric guitar player. However, the musician spotted something in the distance that caused her to laugh, and she was unable to stop. Still, the haunting performance was well received by everyone in the audience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tCheck out the full speech below.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Billie Eilish Accepts the Award for Artist of the Year [2025 American Music Awards]\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/thTUdroFVaw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<em>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/american-music-awards\/\">American Music Awards<\/a>\u00a0are produced by Dick Clark Productions, which is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a joint venture between Eldridge Industries and Billboard parent company Penske Media.<\/em><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billie Eilish walked away with the artist of the year award at the 2025 American Music Awards, and in a remote acceptance speech, graciously thanked her fans for allowing her&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[808,106,274,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-music-awards","category-awards","category-genre-pop","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}