Hit music is often a matter of style, and Katy Perry lacked that a few years ago. The American singer recently spoke about refusing to work with then-unknown Billie Eilish on the song. ocean eyes. Little did I 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 a new planetary star.
The American radio station Kiis-FM posted a video on TikTok in which Katy Perry appears to be giving a private concert. She leads audiences to recount the day a collaborator tried to get her to work with Billie Eilish. And she explains, with humor, how she missed this opportunity:
“One day he sent me an email saying ‘look at this new artist, I’d love to work with her… It was a song called ‘Ocean Eyes’, (sung) by a blonde girl, and I thought ‘well, boring’. .. Big mistake. Big 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?, with only 17 years. carried by tube bad boythis critically acclaimed album stayed at the top of the US charts for three weeks.
It also allowed her to become the youngest artist to win all four of the top Grammy Awards: Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Short Story Artist.
Since then, he has been the subject of a documentary on Apple TV+, signed the soundtrack of a james link (the song no time to diecrowned with an Oscar last year) and presented a second album, happy than everin 2021.
By contrast, Katy Perry’s career went through a period of decline. After first albums crowned with resounding success between the late 2000s and early 2010s, she saw her popularity plummet starting in 2017 with the album Witness. Her last album (Smile2020) ranked fifth in the ratings across the Atlantic, but failed to establish itself on radio.
As the site points out People, the two artists met again after this first missed date. The documentary about Billie Eilish showed the young singer talking with her eldest son and the latter’s fiancé, actor Orlando Bloom.
Source: BFM TV
