
I would talk about wanting a little bit of a spiritual element and we talked about working with Melodye and Pattie and a couple of women who had toured with Whitney Houston, which was just unfathomable to me that I could be in the same room with them. Mike was like, “I’ve never been in a studio, so I don’t really feel like I should be a session player.” And I was like, “I know it’s a lot to go into that ISO booth and play what we have been playing for fun, but just try it.” Then Drew would come in and record these beautiful strings.

Later, I found out they were composing for all these great people like Weyes Blood and Father John Misty and Pink Floyd. After five months we went into the studio with the guys I know from Echo Park, like Drew Erickson, Benji, and Zach Dawes. One day, I was like, “Do you think I could record that?” Then I’d sit down and start singing. Every Sunday morning, he’d lie around and play these licks on his guitar. At first, I was super excited because I started it with Mike Hermosa, a DP and cameraman who, as far as I knew, was not a musician.

How are you feeling? Are you dreading it? Are you excited? Are you nervous?ĭEL REY: All of it, as usual. We’re here to talk about you, for the love of god. It’s crazy to have that magical quality.ĮILISH: Lana, please. You can tell she’s kind.” It didn’t feel like you were aspiring to be anything. I remember seeing the first videos of you singing and I said to my managers, “She’s the one.”ĭEL REY: I was like, “This is the girl. I’d film myself covering your songs and pretend that I was gonna blow up on YouTube from them, and then they’d get two views.ĭEL REY: Well, later in life. I sang “Brooklyn Baby” at the last one I did. I was all up in the talent show singing your stuff.ĭEL REY: Do we have any footage? ĮILISH: Oh yeah.

I grew up homeschooled, but we still had…ĮILISH: It was pretty tight, but we still had talent shows even though we didn’t have a school. I am absolutely stoked out of my fucking mind.ĮILISH: You were my lock screen on the first phone I ever got.ĮILISH: I knew for months before I got my first iPhone that it was going to be that fucking photo of you with the bee on your lip.ĭEL REY: You know what’s funny? That bee picture was for Interview Germany.ĮILISH: No way. LANA DEL REY: How’s it going, sweet girl?īILLIE EILISH: Lana, dude.
