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Fritz Hager performs “When the Party’s Over” by Billie Eilish, American Idol 2022 Season 20 Top 20. Startattle.com – American Idol.
Contestant: Fritz Hager (21 years old), Security Officer from Tyler, Texas
Round: Top 20
Song: “When the Party’s Over” by Billie Eilish
Result: TBA
Fritz Hager American Idol Season 20 “When the Party’s Over”
The party’s just getting started for Fritz Hager, who changed things up with a Billie Eilish cover for his first time performing in the Idol studio!
Fritz Hager American Idol “When the Party’s Over”
Show: American Idol
Season: American Idol 2022 (Season 20)
Host: Ryan Seacrest
Judges: Katy Perry, Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie
The twentieth season of the reality show singing competition American Idol premiered on February 27, 2022 on the ABC television network. It is the fifth season to air on ABC since the series’ revival. Ryan Seacrest returned as host, and Katy Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie returned as judges. Bobby Bones did not return as in-house mentor.
The concept behind “When the Party’s Over” was inspired after Finneas O’Connell, Eilish’s brother, had left his date’s house “kind of for no reason” and was driving home alone late at night, simultaneously unhappy at the end of the relationship but also feeling a sense of safety through a lack of full investment in it. O’Connell later approached Eilish with a draft of the track, and they decided to perform it live “a full year before it came out,” which O’Connell later recalled was “such a terrible idea” as he feared that fans would deem the studio recording inferior to the live version. They consequently set out to “get the magic” of a live performance “into a space where it’s still interesting to record,” a process which O’Connell described as “really hard” due to the song’s delicate nature.
Eilish and O’Connell decided that the track would be “almost entirely” vocal, utilising only sub-bass and acoustic piano as additional instruments; this made it “super challenging” to keep each measure interesting. The song required approximately 100 vocal tracks, which included the stacking of layers on each part of the harmony as well as “weird processed adlibs,” while Eilish recorded over 90 takes of the song’s first word “don’t” to obtain the right sound. The influence of choral music on the song was informed by the siblings’ experience singing in a choir during their childhood, and Eilish disclosed that it was also inspired by the songs “Stand Still” (2017) by Sabrina Claudio, “715 – CRΣΣKS” (2016) by Bon Iver and “Hide and Seek” (2005) by Imogen Heap.
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