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WHEN I WAS OLDER
Billie Eilish
Produced by
FINNEAS
Release Date
January 9, 2019
With soft, haunting vocals over eery, minimalistic production, “WHEN I WAS OLDER” is inspired by director Alfonso Cuarón’s critically-acclaimed 2018 film, Roma.
The song was announced on January 7th, 2019 through Billie Eilish’s Instagram. The track is also included in the Japanese Import version of Eilish’s debut album, WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?.
Verified Commentary
FINNEAS
via Zach Sang Show
Genius Answer
1 contributor
We became friends with this director, Alfonso Cuarón, who’s like a living legend to me. He directed Gravity, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Children of Men, and then he did Roma. He became friends with us and he said “do you guys wanna do a song for this inspired by soundtrack for Roma?” I was like “yes” and he was like “here are all the sounds from the movie, feel free to use it” and I was so excited but we were really busy. We were finishing up WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?, we were on a tour. It wasn’t the kind of caliber of tour we’re doing now where we have these huge dressing rooms. We were in these tight little quarters. I just didn’t have any time to do anything. He [Alfonso Cuarón] would hit me up every couple weeks like “hey, how’s it going, have you had a chance to work on it?” And I would write back “I haven’t made anything I like yet.” I went to therapy and I was like “I’m so sad ‘cause I’m letting this person down that has given me this cool opportunity.” And my therapist was like “why are you not turning anything in?” And I was like “well because I don’t wanna turn in something that he’s not gonna like.” And she said “well, if you don’t turn anything in, that’s way worse than turning in something he doesn’t like.” And I remember being like “oh! I can turn in something bad.” And then, of course you don’t turn in something bad, you turn in something you’re proud of.
Credits
Produced By
FINNEAS
Written By
Billie Eilish & FINNEAS
Vocals
Billie Eilish
Label
Interscope Records & Darkroom Records
Phonographic Copyright ℗
Interscope Records & Darkroom Records
Copyright ©
Interscope Records & Darkroom Records
Studio Personnel
John Greenham & Rob Kinelski
Mixing Engineer
Rob Kinelski
Mastering Engineer
John Greenham
Background Vocals
FINNEAS
Songs That Sample WHEN I WAS OLDER
Adicktions Pt. 2 by Barry Pablo