{"id":480652,"date":"2019-01-09T10:33:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T17:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=776772"},"modified":"2019-01-09T10:33:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T17:33:44","slug":"hear-billie-eilishs-roma-inspired-ballad-when-i-was-older","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/hear-billie-eilishs-roma-inspired-ballad-when-i-was-older\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Billie Eilish\u2019s \u2018Roma\u2019-Inspired Ballad \u2018When I Was Older\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/billie-eilish-new-song-roma.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/billie-eilish\/\">Billie Eilish<\/a> released a moody new ballad, \u201cWhen I Was Older,\u201d which was inspired by the Golden Globe-winning Netflix film\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/roma-movie-review-758113\/\"><em>Roma<\/em><\/a>. The song will feature in an upcoming collection of \u201cinspired by\u201d tracks curated by the film\u2019s director Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n. The song\u2019s titled is lifted from a piece of dialogue spoken by the character Pepe in <em>Roma<\/em>, \u201cWhen I was older I used to be a sailor, but I drowned in a storm.\u201d After seeing the film, which won Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes, Eilish teamed with her brother and collaborator Finneas O\u2019Connell to pen the track.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we were composing the song, we wanted to write from within the narrative of the movie and the scenes that struck us the most from it,\u201d the siblings said in a statement. \u201cHaving access to the sounds used in the film proved to be invaluable to help us convey this. Lines like \u2018memories burn like a forest fire\u2019 are accompanied by the sounds of the trees burning in the woods outside the house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They continued, \u201cThe chorus, has the ocean sounds overplayed on it. We were also able to take sounds like the student protest shouts and Borras barking and turn them into rhythmic percussive elements to help drive the song. Nothing about this song would exist without the film, which is exactly what we love about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sony Music Masterworks will release <em>Music Inspired By Roma<\/em> later this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/billie-eilish-roma-song-776772\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billie Eilish released a moody new ballad, \u201cWhen I Was Older,\u201d which was inspired by the Golden Globe-winning Netflix film\u00a0Roma. The song will feature in an upcoming collection of \u201cinspired by\u201d tracks curated by the film\u2019s director Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n. The song\u2019s titled is lifted from a piece of dialogue spoken by the character Pepe in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-480652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 10:16:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}