![]() ![]() So it’s not unfair to wonder how challenging the pair found it to musically channel a middle-aged British spy from a 60-year-old film series. It’s rare to find a reference to ‘No Time To Die’ that doesn’t mention Eilish as the youngest-ever singer to write and perform a Bond song she had yet to turn 18 when she and O’Connell first recorded the demo in their tour bus in October 2019, about a month after they’d met with Bond producer Barbara Broccoli. ![]() So when we heard we were being thought of to pitch a song, it felt so cool and scary and intimidating.” ![]() ![]() “We made a lot of jokes about how it would be a dream for us to do. Both being fans of the franchise, she and her brother often discussed it. But rather than representing a sudden pivot, writing a Bond song, she says, was “something we’ve always wanted to do”. Their dark-electro-pop style first hit big with the single ‘Ocean Eyes’, released when Eilish was just 13. It feels like the biggest thing ever.”Īs detailed in last year’s deep-dive AppleTV+ documentary The World’s A Little Blurry, she and O’Connell have been making music together for most of their lives, recording in O’Connell’s Los Angeles bedroom. “We’re musicians, we are not in that world, and that alone makes it feel so incredible. “It’s very shocking to think about,” says Eilish. However, when they heard they’d been nominated for an Oscar – for their James Bond theme song ‘No Time To Die’ – they couldn’t quite believe it. Despite still being only 20 and 24 respectively, the songwriting siblings have already won a clutch of Grammys, with Eilish the youngest to sweep the big four categories (best new artist, record, song and album), in 2020. Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O’Connell are no strangers to awards attention. ![]()
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