Katy Perry Says It Was ‘Mistake’ To Pass On Working With Billie Eilish – Hollywood Life

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Katy Perry, 38, advised an viewers that she as soon as handed on working with Billie Eilish, 21, and now regrets it, throughout a current Q&A. The singer was acting at a live performance occasion for 102.7 KIIS FM when she talked in regards to the second she was requested to hitch the then teen on her now mega hit “Ocean Eyes.” After admitting she handed on it, she known as her fast choice a “huge mistake.”

Katy Perry says she made a “huge” mistake declining to work with Billie Eilish:

“It was a song called ‘ocean eyes’ and it was just a blonde girl and I was like, ‘meh boring.’ Big mistake. Huge mistake.” pic.twitter.com/DfwPwYEedP

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“[Someone] sent me an email one time that was: ‘Hey, check out this new artist. I’d really like us to work with her because she was working with me for Unsub [Records],” Katy mentioned on stage. “It was a song called ‘Ocean Eyes,’ and it was just a blonde girl, and I was like, ‘Meh, boring.’”

“Big mistake. Huge mistake,” she then cheekily added because the viewers laughed.

“Ocean Eyes” went on to change into Billie’s breakthrough single in 2015. It was written and produced by her brother Finneas O’Connell, with whom she collaborates on a lot of her songs, and it was featured on her debut EP, Don’t Smile at Me. It reached quantity 84 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and peaked inside the prime 60 within the report charts of a number of international locations and peaked at quantity 72 on the UK Singles Chart, making it a industrial success. It obtained a number of certifications, together with a triple-platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Although Katy needs she wouldn’t have handed up working with Billie, the proficient artist has had fairly a profitable music profession of her personal. Her personal breakthrough hit music was “I Kissed a Girl,” which was launched in 2008. She has gone on to launch many different hit singles since then, together with “Teenage Dream,” “Last Friday Night,” and “Roar.”

When Katy’s not exhausting at work on her music, she’s having fun with her household life along with her fiance Orlando Bloom and their daughter Daisy, 2. The trio visited the zoo collectively final week and had been photographed going there and again on bikes. When they had been off the bikes, the proud dad and mom couldn’t assist however smile and take photographs of their little lady as she walked outdoors in an lovable pink coat.

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