{"id":2446992,"date":"2019-07-31T06:19:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T12:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=864831"},"modified":"2019-07-31T06:19:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T12:19:10","slug":"the-first-time-billie-eilish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/the-first-time-billie-eilish\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Time: Billie Eilish"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Billie Eilish<\/a> describes collaborating with her brother Finneas, becoming a fan of Tyler, the Creator and Childish Gambino<\/a>, and receiving the news that her breakout single \u201cOcean Eyes\u201d had garnered attention in the latest installment of \u201cThe First Time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first song Eilish and Finneas wrote together was 2017\u2019s \u201cBellyache,\u201d<\/a> which was born out of their friend\u2019s garage. They were mindlessly playing instruments, making what Eilish describes as \u201cthe most horrible sounding music from all of us,\u201d when Finneas spontaneously played a patch of music. They added words to the song, completing it on Eilish\u2019s bed. The siblings have been writing together ever since, but Eilish realized Finneas was the perfect writing partner when the duo wrote \u201cHostage,\u201d<\/a> the final track of Eilish\u2019s 2017 EP Don\u2019t Smile at Me<\/em>. \u201cThere was kind of a feeling there that we were just like, \u2018This is what we\u2019re going to do,\u2019 \u2019cause this works,\u201d Eilish explains. \u201cObviously, it still works.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eilish first heard Tyler, the Creator, when she was working as a horse camp counselor one summer. Her friend mentioned the rapper while they were giving lessons. \u201cWe were just goofing off, not paying attention, even though we were the ones\u2026in charge,\u201d she laughs. Although a photo of Tyler was Eilish\u2019s profile picture, she didn\u2019t have a clue who he was at the time. \u201cI just thought it was a cool picture,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd then we listened to \u2018Tamale\u2019 with a bunch of five-year-olds riding horses all around us. It was great.\u201d The star also became a fan of Childish Gambino when her iPod played \u201cHeartbeat\u201d while on shuffle. \u201cImmediately, I just stopped what I was doing,\u201d she says, reaching for the device to see who it was. \u201cI felt like I was introduced to a new world\u2026where have I been? This has been out there, and I\u2019ve just been sitting here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eilish fondly remembers the moment her 2016 breakout hit \u201cOcean Eyes\u201d<\/a> began to take off. She was at Starbucks on a break between dance classes when Finneas called to tell her the video<\/a> had a thousand views. \u201cA thousand! Which is now like, an ant,\u201d she cracks. \u201cIt\u2019s funny how different it is relative to things now, but then, he called me to tell me because it was such a big deal. The excitement caused Eilish to forget about her next dance class altogether. \u201cI remember hanging up the phone, grabbing my bag and grabbing my stupid little hibiscus whatever-the-fuck. I picked it up and just ran with the biggest smile on my face because I was so excited.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the interview, Eilish gushes over her love for <\/a>The Office<\/a> \u2014 \u201cI just started watching it the 13th time all around\u201d \u2014 and humorously describes the first time she (technically) drove her car alone. It was the day before she got her license, and Eilish relocated her car from the front of the house to the back so she could wash it without getting noticed. \u201cAnd then school got out, and then a million people walked by and all saw me and started taking pictures of me, so I had to go back inside,\u201d she says. Eilish admits that the drive, however quick, was illegal. \u201cI just drove it around the block,\u201d she says. \u201cSo don\u2019t worry about it!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Billie Eilish describes collaborating with her brother Finneas, becoming a fan of Tyler, the Creator and Childish Gambino, and receiving the news that her breakout single \u201cOcean Eyes\u201d had garnered attention in the latest installment of \u201cThe First Time.\u201d The first song Eilish and Finneas wrote together was 2017\u2019s \u201cBellyache,\u201d which was born out of […]<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 13:21:17","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}