For those not in the know, it should come as no surprise to see the VSQ (Vitamin String Quartet) reimagine fifteen of 9-time Grammy Award winner Billie Eilish’s most intriguing tracks.

Their string rendition of “bad guy” remains one of their most streamed tracks on Spotify and last year, and thus they turned her latest single, “LUNCH,” into a classical crossover magic for VSQ Performs The Hits of 2024.

And while “BIRDS OF A FEATHER” was climbing to the most streamed song of 2024 on Spotify, they were busy celebrating the alt-pop superstar’s musical prowess, VSQ-style, in preparation for a full-length album.

The result is VSQ Performs Billie Eilish, which features a diverse set of Eilish’s songs arranged for strings, from “ocean eyes” — the one that started it all — to three tracks off of her latest album, Hit Me Hard and Soft.

1. you should see me in a crown
2. bad guy
3. Therefore I Am
4. BIRDS OF A FEATHER
5. everything i wanted
6. lovely
7. CHIHIRO
8. LUNCH
9. bury a friend
10. No Time To Die
11. ocean eyes
12. idontwannabeyouanymore
13. when the party’s over
14. Happier Than Ever
15. What Was I Made For?

Chock full of their usual level of unabashed musicianship combined with an emotionality unapologetic vein that pulsates throughout each and every track, the new recording opens on the stoically embracing you should see me in a crown and a playfully flirtatious bad guy and then we get brought forth a regally elegant Therefore I Am, a sumptuously laid bare BIRDS OF A FEATHER, the forlorn, yet emotive everything i wanted and both the veritably ethereal lovely and the impishly sculpted CHIHIRO.

Up next is one of my own personal favorite Eilish cuts, which the VSQ do a brilliantly free flowing homage here to, the all-embracing LUNCH which is itself backed by the creepingly creepy bury a friend, the delicately hued James Bond theme No Time To Die, and then comes the quietly aloof, yet gradually building ocean eyes, the decadent ballroom swirls and twirls of idontwannabeyouanymore, the set rounding out on a stirring when the party’s over, a contained, yet noticeably playful ebb to Happier Than Ever, coming to a close on the touching notes brought to bear within What Was I Made For?

“you should see me in a crown” - VSQ Performs Billie Eilish (Live Performance)

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2026 North American + EU / U.K. Tour Dates:
1/29 - Joliet, IL - Rialto Theatre
1/30 - Iowa City, IA - Englert Theatre
2/1 - Cheyenne, WY - The Lincoln
2/3 - Sheridan, WY - WYO Theater
2/4 - Missoula, MT - The Wilma
2/5 - Spokane, WA - Fox Theatre
2/6 - Vancouver, BC - Vogue Theatre
2/7 - Seattle, WA - Moore Theatre
2/9 - Butte, MT - Mother Lode Theatre
2/10 - Kalispell, MT - Wachholz College Center (McClaren Hall)
2/12 - Salem, OR - Elsinore Theatre
2/13 - Medford, OR - Craterian Theater at the Collier Center for the Performing Arts
2/14 - Menlo Park, CA - The Guild Theatre
2/15 - Carmel, CA - Sunset Center Theater
2/17 - San Diego, CA - Jacobs Music Center 2/19 - Riverside, CA - Fox Performing Arts Center
2/20 - Mesa, AZ - Mesa Arts Center
2/21 - Tucson, AZ - Fox Tucson Theatre
2/23 - Colorado Springs, CO - Pikes Peak Center
2/24 - Denver, CO - Paramount Theatre
2/26 - Omaha, NE - Steelhouse Omaha
2/28 - Salina, KS - The Stiefel Theatre
3/1 - Oklahoma City, OK - Tower Theatre
3/3 - Houston, TX - Jones Hall for the Performing Arts
3/4 - Austin, TX - Paramount Theatre
3/5 - Tyler, TX - UT Tyler Cowan Center
3/6 - Dallas, TX - Majestic Theatre
3/8 - San Antonio, TX - Tobin Center for the Performing Arts (HEB Performance Hall)
3/10 - Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theater
3/11 - St. Louis, MO - The Sheldon (Concert Hall)
3/12 - Effingham, IL - Effingham Performance Center
3/16 - Coventry, UK - Warwick Arts Centre
3/18 - Belfast, UK - The Limelight
3/20 - Edinburgh, UK - The Queen’s Hall
3/22 - Sunderland, UK - The Fire Station
3/23 - Manchester, UK - The Bridgewater Hall
3/24 - Basingstoke, UK - The Anvil
3/25 - Swansea, UK - Grand Theatre
3/27 - York, UK - Grand Opera House
3/28 - Derby, UK - Derby Cathedral
3/29 - London, UK - The Barbican