Billie Eilish Is One Of Sean Paul’s Dream Collabs: “She’s Just Brilliant”
Sean Paul has listed American singer Billie Eilish as one of his dream collabs.
On a recent episode of The Voice, where Paul serves as a 2022 “Battle Advisor” for Gwen Stefani, the Dancehall superstar described Eilish as brilliant and lauded her brother, Finneas O’Connell, for his production of her music.
“Bille Eilish for real. I would love to do a remix… but I would love to do something with her because she just is brilliant. Her and her brother that make the music, big up to the both of them, I would love to try what I do on one of their tracks,” the Temperature artist said.
“You know at times I am playing the radio or I am driving and I am hearing her songs, and there are little spaces I hear myself and I’m like ‘yo I could go there or there’. And yeah, I would love to do something where it’s like that,” he added.
Sean then went on to note that Ohio-based duo Twenty One Pilots, was another set of musicians with whom he would like to collaborate.
“Also, a band called Twenty One Pilots; it’s awesome. They have crazy melodies and I like music like that. The drums are kinda Hip Hop oriented to me and the melodies are rock oriented and it’s a perfect blend a dat. And that’s a group I wouldn’t mind doing a song with, with their production. I love it,” he said.
At age 17, Eilish made history by being the youngest person to be nominated for, and to win, the Grammy Awards in the “Big Four” categories (Album Of The Year, Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year and Best New Artist) in the same year. She’s also the only woman to win the big four awards on the same night, and the second artist ever to do so, after Christopher Cross in 1981.
In an interview last year, Sean Paul had said that he became interested in Billie Eilish after listening to her 2015 debut single Ocean Eyes, which was written and produced by Finneas O’Connell, with whom she collaborates on music and live shows.
“I like her music. I hear her brother produces it and I would love to be in studio just to mess with stuff that they do. It is unique it does not sound like anything else now,” he said at the time, in an interview with Kiss 92.5 FM’s Deepa Prashad.
Among his other dream collabs he said back then was Alicia Keys, but noted that for him it was not about the artist but more the song, giving what transpired when he attempted to collaborate with singer Ashanti, as an example.
“She’s been a fan of me and I’ve been a fan of hers. And we’ve been in the studio two times and we have never got a song out. Whether it be that the producer or the riddim wasn’t right or the food in there just wasn’t good or the conversation wasn’t too good, you know we didn’t end up doing something,” he had said.
Sean has collaborated on many global hits over the years, among them the Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping duets Baby Boy with Beyonce and Cheap Thrills with Sia.
Sean Paul has long declared that his all-time favorite collaboration was the 2006 hit single Break It Off with Rihanna, because unlike his other collaborators she flew into Jamaica to record the song and immerse herself in Jamaican culture.