Billie Eilish has had one other tune enter Spotify’s Billions Membership, a spot she has grown very acquainted with through the years. “you should see me in a crown” from her debut LP, 2019’s WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? The tune is the fifth from the album to attain a billion streams, and her sixteenth total.
Eilish and her brother FINNEAS, who co-wrote the tune, took inspiration from an surprising supply for the tune. In an interview with Billboard in 2018, Billie spoke about their love of the TV present Sherlock, and the way in a single episode, Jim Moriarty steals the crown jewel. He then says to Sherlock, “Honey, you should see me in a crown.”
Within the dialog, she additionally spoke about her favourite lyric within the tune, “I like the way they all scream.” She mentioned, “It’s pretty simple, but I think it’s dope. I feel like if I heard that, I’d be freaked out and I love being freaked out, so I really want to freak other people out.”
She added: “I just want it to sound like, if you heard it in a dark room, it’d be fucking scary. So terrifying…but that’s the goal, is to freak everybody out. My songs have in the past just been sad, and more sad and some more sad and so to write a song that’s kind of almost empowering, that was not even something I ever thought of doing or wanted to do, even.”
Different songs from Eilish in Spotify Billions Membership are Hit Me Arduous and Comfortable’s “Wildflower,” “Birds of a Feather” (which was additionally Spotify’s most-streamed tune of 2024), the award-winning “What Was I Made For?” from the 2023 Barbie soundtrack, 2019’s “Everything I Wanted,” Eilish’s 2018 “Lovely” collaboration with Khalid, and her debut 2016 single “Ocean Eyes.”
In 2023, Eilish was a part of Spotify’s “Billions Club: The Series” launch that additionally featured Publish Malone and Dangerous Bunny. In her episode, the singer ready a poolside snack for her beloved pitbull, Shark, utilizing the entire Billions Membership plaques that she had on the time.
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