{"id":481826,"date":"2019-02-05T08:44:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T15:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=787660"},"modified":"2019-02-05T08:44:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T15:44:59","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-billie-eilish-when-i-was-older","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-billie-eilish-when-i-was-older\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Billie Eilish, \u2018When I Was Older\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/billie-eilish-syntk.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>When director Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n asked\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/billie-eilish\/\">Billie Eilish<\/a> to contribute a song to the soundtrack for\u00a0<em>ROMA<\/em>, she and Finneas O\u2019Connell\u2014her brother and main collaborator\u2014were drawn to a line of dialogue spoken by Marco Graf\u2019s character: \u201cWhen I was older I used to be a sailor, but I drowned in a storm.\u201d They took the line and ran with it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I Was Older\u201d is part haunting lullaby and part electronic eulogy, with Eilish\u2019s silky vocals giving the impression she\u2019s singing underwater,\u00a0but it\u2019s where she wants to be.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m on my back again\/dreaming of a time and place\/Where you and I remain the best of friends,\u201d she laments. It\u2019s almost as if the narrator from her 2016 breakout hit \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=viimfQi_pUw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Ocean Eyes<\/a>\u201d has swam a few laps in the sea and emerged older, wiser and intimately acquainted with Autotune.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0I4fD49Gbck?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eilish and O\u2019Connell were given access to the sounds used in the film.\u00a0\u201cLines like \u2018Memories burn like a forest fire\u2019 are accompanied by the sounds of the trees burning in the woods outside the house. The chorus has the ocean sounds overplayed on it,\u201d the siblings said in a statement.\u00a0\u201cNothing about this song would exist without the film, which is exactly what we love about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-billie-eilish-when-i-was-older-787660\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When director Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n asked\u00a0Billie Eilish to contribute a song to the soundtrack for\u00a0ROMA, she and Finneas O\u2019Connell\u2014her brother and main collaborator\u2014were drawn to a line of dialogue spoken by Marco Graf\u2019s character: \u201cWhen I was older I used to be a sailor, but I drowned in a storm.\u201d They took the line and ran [&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-481826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 15:19:45","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\/481826","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=481826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}