Was Billie Eilish inspired by success? The Kiffance by Naps by its title the love of my life? If the link between both songs may seem quite distant, since the release of the singer’s new album, Hit me hard and softOn May 17, many Internet users point out the sonic similarity of the song with that of the Marseille rapper.
On TikTok, content creator 321Kais thus makes a comparison between the rhythm and notes used by Billie Eilish in her title and those of the chorus of the hit Naps.
“Maybe that’s why he chose a French name for his song,” the young man asks in his video.
If Billie Eilish has not confirmed having used this sample, nor cited Naps in the credits of the love of my lifecomposed with his brother Finneas, the Marseille rapper reacted with humor to this comparison on X, formerly Twitter.
“Okay @billieeilish it’s the kiffance,” he wrote on X, citing a video that draws parallels between the two songs.
Electro and vocoder
“I can’t stop listening to it now,” says one user on TikTok. “I thought exactly the same thing when I heard it,” says another user on TikTok.
Billie Eilish’s song begins as a ballad, with a very slow beat, before taking on electro accents with a vocoder-enhanced vocal.
Like Billie Eilish, Beyoncé was also the subject of surprising sample speculation during her album release. cowboy carter Last March. Several Internet users had thus established the link between his piece Texas Hold’emplayed on the banjo, and the cartoon credits. franklin the turtle.
So much so that the composer of the credits, Bruce Cockburn, had to deny this rumor. “The rhythm is similar to my song, but to my ears the resemblance ends there. ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ is your song, and I wish you much success!” he said in magazine columns People.
Source: BFM TV
