Billie Eilish Thought Her Oscars Performance Was 'Trash' (And She's Wrong)

Remember as soon as Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas stunned the world with their cover of the Beatles' "Yesterday" at last weekend's Oscars? We called it a "moving" and pretty efficiency, although Eilish has another word for it: "trash."


In a FaceTime interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe on Friday (February 14), the 18-year-old appeared from her bed and revealed that she's been under the weather since the Academy Awards.


"I was sick for all the Oscars, I bombed that efficiency she mentioned. "That was trash." Lowe, for the record, did not agree with Eilish, nevertheless conceded that she's allowed to be her own toughest critic.





Further reflecting on the glitzy awards show, Eilish admitted that she felt like a fish out of water in the "scary" Hollywood environment — especially on the heels of last month's Grammys, where she was the belle of the ball. (In case you forgot: She took house five awards that night and made history because the youngest artist to sweep the four major categories.)


"At least the Grammys wasn't as scary because it was, like, artists, also it felt like my people," she mentioned. "It was like, 'Oh, look, a bunch of artists!' And I knew a lot of these already and I'd met them and so they knew of me. Although the Oscars, I'm like, these are movie stars."


Elsewhere in the interview, Eilish spoke her gorgeous, somber James Bond theme song, "No Time To Die," which arrived on Thursday. She mentioned the idea to record a song for the 007 franchise came two years back, and she and Finneas had "subconsciously" been working on it ever since. "Two years prior we were like, 'Wouldn't it be crazy to prepare a song for the Bond movies? Wouldn't that be dope?'" She mentioned.


While the thought process for "No Time To Perish took a while, the recording session was super quick. "We got a part of the script, like the opening scene, and then we wrote the song immediately," she dished. "We wrote it in thee days and we wrote it in Texas and we recorded it in a bunk on the bus in a basement in the dark."


And the rest is history. Listen to Eilish's "No Time To Perish here, and check out her interview with Lowe above.