Dan Martell - February 13, 2024


How Billie Eilish Got Famous


Episode Stats


Length

53 seconds

Words per minute

202.77882

Word count

180

Sentence count

10


Summary

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Billie Eilish is a singer, songwriter, and songwriter from the UK. She is one of the most creative people I know, and her song "Ocean Eyes" was the catalyst for her to become the artist she is today.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Billie Eilish, she talks about this, Ocean Eyes.
00:00:03.000 Her and her brother, they recorded the song,
00:00:05.920 put it out on SoundCloud, and she was like,
00:00:08.660 man, if a thousand people played this and listened to this,
00:00:11.940 this would be amazing.
00:00:12.760 And I think she went away for like the weekend or whatever.
00:00:14.720 When she came back, it had like 10,000 plays
00:00:17.720 and it just kept going to 100,000.
00:00:20.020 And that one song that she created with her brother
00:00:22.800 was the catalyst for her becoming Billie Eilish.
00:00:26.120 People that are creative in their pursuit
00:00:28.600 and they do the thing from a pure place of desire and love
00:00:33.260 and wanting to just see something exist in the world.
00:00:35.640 Those people are rewarded with pieces of art
00:00:39.220 that end up transforming their whole life.
00:00:41.880 It doesn't take a lot for somebody that's in the game
00:00:45.160 doing the work for the right reasons
00:00:46.600 to absolutely transform their lives.
00:00:48.640 Most people are just not doing it for the right reasons
00:00:50.320 and they're not in the game.
00:00:51.500 They're on the sidelines counting other people's money.