Katy Perry recalled a colleague clueing her on to Billie Eilish at Capitol Records imprint Unsub during an event hosted by KIIS FM. The colleague reportedly saw potential for the pair to get together and produce music.
Perry claimed, “She sent me an email one time that was, ‘Hey check out this new artist, I’d really like us to work with her’… and it was a song called ‘Ocean Eyes’ and it was just a blonde girl, and I was like, ‘Meh, boring.’”
“Big mistake,” Perry added. “Huge mistake! Don’t let this hit the Internet.”
Billie Eilish’s ‘Ocean Eyes’ turned out to be a hit, made its way onto the soundtrack for the film ‘Everything, Everything’ and racked up a total of 21 Platinum certifications. Artists like Shamir, Alicia Keys and Machine Gun Kelly also sang covers of ‘Ocean Eyes’ subsequently. In an interview, Eilish admitted to initially being thrown off by the attention she received for this song. She added, “I hated going outside. I hated going to events. I hated being recognised. I hated the internet having a bunch of eyes on me. I just wanted to be doing teenager sh*t.”
Eilish recently filed a restraining order against a stalker who broke into her house and caused her and her family “substantial anxiety, fear and emotional distress”. Perry, on the other hand, claimed to be working on a new album which will be a follow up to 2020’s ‘Smile’.
– Riya Sohini