Eilish wrote “Wish You Were Gay” after hearing the Mexican singer's “Eres Tú”.
Carla Morrison inspired one of Billie Eilish's favorite songs — and she's over the moon about it. On Friday, the Mexican singer shared a clip of Eilish revealing that she was inspired to write her song 'Wish You Were Gay' after hearing Morrison's standout track 'Eres Tú'.
“Never stop doing what you love most, you never know you inspire,” Morrison wrote on Instagram, sharing the clip from Eilish's interview with Sopitas. “Thank you so much for your beautiful and kind words Billy, they really touched me.”
In the interview, Eilish revealed that she learned to play “Eres Tú” as a child and “would like to sing it all the time.”
“I love those chords so much and so I remember I would play those songs all the time, and I put them in a different order and I wrote a verse and a chorus of 'Wish You Were Gay' and I wrote the rest of the song and changed it and everything,” she said of the track from her debut album, When we all fall asleep, where do we go?. “But yeah, I was very inspired by that song.”
Eilish said she has “no idea” how she found Morrison's 'Eres Tú' but has known it since she was 11. (There's an old video of Eilish covering the song as a teenager on YouTube.)
“I really like this song. She is amazing. She also has a song called 'Me Encanta,' which I love,” she said Déjenme Llorar orbit. “I love her voice too. She has such a soft, beautiful, tender voice. She is amazing. I love her so much.”
Morrison caught up Rolling Stone before her show at the Hollywood Bowl last summer after her album release, Renaissance. “I feel like I've come back to music in a really beautiful way,” he said at the time. “I didn't know if people would still want the kind of music I make. It was so positive to see that people love my songs and that most of my concerts are sold out.”
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