{"id":207339,"date":"2025-11-30T01:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T01:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/207339\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T01:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T01:29:08","slug":"billie-eilish-on-the-career-starting-song-she-didnt-even-consider-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/207339\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Eilish on the Career-Starting Song She Didn\u2019t Even Consider ‘Serious’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Billie Eilish has spawned a whole legion of imitators<\/a> since her debut as a teenager. The aftermath of her pop dominance has bred a lot of young women doing the wispy singing without any of the depth that makes Billie great. Since \u201cOcean Eyes,\u201d her soft cooing creates a subtle emotional heft that coincides with her deeply impactful songwriting. Eilish is raw, and she wears her heart on her sleeve, even when she was just a kid. However, as popular as a record like \u201cOcean Eyes\u201d is, she doesn\u2019t seem to take it as seriously as her fanbase does.<\/p>\n

In a 2024 interview<\/a> with Stephen Colbert, Billie Eilish opened up about her album HIT ME HARD AND SOFT. By that point, she\u2019d been around for a while. Currently, she\u2019s circling around a decade in the music industry, in the spotlight since early puberty. Consequently, Colbert wanted to know how it felt to release her album as compared to her days when she released her first big hit, \u201cOcean Eyes.\u201d Ultimately, Eilish dismisses the comparison, emphasizing that her work as an adult holds significantly more weight.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Ocean Eyes\u2019 was not even serious. I was 13, and we had a free download link on Soundcloud,\u201d Billie Eilish said when Colbert interjected about how people went on to download that link. \u201cThey absolutely did. It had 1,000 plays in like a week, and I thought that was the coolest thing in the world. So there was no reality to it. Now, it\u2019s like, everyone\u2019s going to\u2026 I don\u2019t know, it\u2019s scary, Stephen!\u201d<\/p>\n

Billie Eilish Doesn\u2019t Take Big Hit \u201cOcean Eyes\u201d Seriously<\/p>\n

For what it\u2019s worth, Billie Eilish has remained pretty consistent on this point for years. Even when it was freshly viral, she shrugged<\/a> to Interview Magazine that it\u2019s the work of a 13-year-old doing an assignment. \u201cIt was weird, because we didn\u2019t plan for it to do anything really. The reason we put it out when we did was that the whole song was meant to be for my dance teacher, because he wanted to use it for a dance. That\u2019s why the production is dance-esque, contemporary, and lyrical,\u201d Billie Eilish explained at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then it was done, and we were going to wait till Friday to put it out, and thought, \u2018Screw it. Let\u2019s just put it out now.\u2019 So we did, and it hit 1,000 the next day. My brother and I were like, \u2018We made it! 1,000\u2014we\u2019re it. That\u2019s our whole career. We\u2019re done,\u2019\u201d Eilish added.<\/p>\n

At 15 years old, Billie Eilish found it kind of strange to impact people so viscerally at the time. But she also says that that\u2019s the big goal when she creates anything. \u201cIt\u2019s a little odd, because it was one song that they heard, and then it\u2019s like, \u2018This changed my life!\u2019 And that\u2019s insane. This thing that meant a lot to me can mean something to you; that\u2019s always what I thought was really cool, and that\u2019s what I\u2019ve been trying to do more of. I want to touch people in the way that it touches me, and have somebody feel a certain way that they didn\u2019t know they felt,\u201d Billie Eilish concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billie Eilish has spawned a whole legion of imitators since her debut as a teenager. The aftermath of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[8170,18,117,19,17,337,10321,981],"class_list":{"0":"post-207339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-billie-eilish","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-noisey","15":"tag-pop-music"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115636061376989257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}