T n A wrote:
Ha ha Beatles connection... there is no Beatles connection. She probably was asked about her influences in an interview one time and gave the same answer everyone else does.
Yes, there is a "Beatles connection". If you don't believe me, take this quote from Paul McCartney's daughter:
“but I think that there’s a lot of beauty in the arrangements of her music, the harmonizing and the structure, that’s heavily influenced by The Beatles’ writing and work. [She has] a strong message of identity and staying true to yourself, never compromising. That’s something The Beatles did too.”
And more from that article:
“It was the Beatles who inspired them to begin writing their own songs,” Maggie shared with Variety in December last year. “Because the class was for kids,” she continued, “I had to simplify it: Here’s ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’, let’s give these pieces of the song a name. The class was just an hour a week for 10 weeks or so — but Finneas was like [mimes ‘Eureka!’ moment], and in a few months he formed a band. All I had to teach him was the basics, and he immediately got it — and the same with Billie.”
The Beatles connection stretches further back. Appearing on late-night television host James Corden’s popular Carpool Karaoke segment last December, Billie strummed ukulele while singing a snippet of the chorus to the Beatles’ ‘I Will’. The White Album number was the first song she ever learned. Eilish shared that she had been singing it since she was six.
Billie’s co-writer, producer, best friend, and brother Finneas shares his sister’s’ enthusiasm for the Fab Four. “The Beatles in all respects are my favourite artists ever,” he enthused to website Music All Access in 2016.
Finneas has also shed light on how Billie and he were first exposed to the Beatles. “Our dad would make these mix CDs,” he shared with Atwood Magazine in 2018. “Whenever we had to drive anywhere, we’d listen to mix CDs that were music that dad loved when he was growing up, and music that he’d just discovered. There was a really broad gamut of music that was current at the time, like a lot of Avril Lavigne, and then a lot of the Beatles.”
-In a recent interview with radio DJ Howard Stern Paul McCartney revealed he and Billie had recently crossed paths.
-Eilish is again collaborating with Stella McCartney.
Stella then acknowledged that the music itself may be different. “There’s obviously a modernity to Billie’s work,” she stated, “but I think that there’s a lot of beauty in the arrangements of her music, the harmonizing and the structure, that’s heavily influenced by The Beatles’ writing and work. [She has] a strong message of identity and staying true to yourself, never compromising. That’s something The Beatles did too.”
