The “Teenage Dream” singer revealed that she turned down an opportunity to work with Billie Eilish, before the latter became a worldwide phenomenon.
Musical successes are often a matter of flair, and Katy Perry lacked that a few years ago. The American singer recently opened up about refusing to work with then-unknown Billie Eilish on the song Ocean Eyes. She did not know then that the young American was going to come out of the shadows thanks to this title in 2016, before being propelled to the rank of new planetary star.
American radio station Kiis-FM posted a video on TikTok in which Katy Perry appears to be giving a private concert. She takes to the public to recount the day a collaborator tried to get her to work with Billie Eilish. And explains, with humor, how she missed this opportunity:
“One day she emailed me saying ‘look at this new artist, I would love for us to work with her… It was a song called ‘Ocean Eyes’, (sung) by a blonde girl, and I thought ‘well, boring’… Big mistake. Huge mistake.”
Opposite trajectories
Billie Eilish took over the American pop scene in 2019 with her debut album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, at only 17 years old. Carried by the tube bad guythis critically acclaimed album remained at the top of the charts in the United States for three weeks.
It also allowed her to become the youngest artist to win the four supreme awards of the Grammy Awards: album of the year, recording of the year, song of the year, and best short story. artist.
It has since been the subject of a documentary on Apple TV+, signed the soundtrack of a james bond (the song No Time To Diecrowned with an Oscar last year) and unveiled a second album, Happy Than Everin 2021.
Conversely, Katy Perry’s career went through a period of decline. After first albums crowned with resounding success between the end of the 2000s and the beginning of the 2010s, she saw her popularity crumble from 2017 with the album Witness. His latest album (Smile2020) came fifth in the rankings across the Atlantic but failed to establish itself on radio.
As the site notes People, the two artists met after this first missed date. The documentary on Billie Eilish showed the young singer chatting with her eldest and the latter’s fiancé, actor Orlando Bloom.
