Olivia Rodrigo was on Billie Eilish’s brain when she was crafting one particular precise track on her 2021 album Happier Than Ever. At the time, Rodrigo experienced just been catapulted into superstardom thanks to the achievement of her debut solitary “Drivers License,” and that was a bit stressing for Eilish. Two several years following Happier Than At any time’s release, Eilish disclosed that 1 very specific track on the album was encouraged by Rodrigo, and the concept is clear now upon re-listening.

Eilish admitted in her Nov. 14 Los Angeles Situations profile that she felt very protecting of Rodrigo as she shot to fame, since she experienced a very similar right away achievement story and realized all the destructive elements that arrive with the praise. She even wrote a music to try to warn Rodrigo about the darker aspect of becoming a pop star.

“I have a music known as ‘Goldwing’ from my past album that’s type of about her,” Eilish disclosed. “I was just thinking about her when I was writing it. She was coming up, and she was young than me, and no person experienced ever been young than me.”

In “Goldwing,” Eilish sings about a “gold-winged angel” who is as well “sacred” for the dim, artless entire world. She pleads for the angel to “keep your head down” and return home, warning her that she’ll be taken gain of:

They are gonna inform you what you wanna hear / Then they are gonna vanish / Gonna assert you like a souvenir / Just to sell you in a year

Eilish disclosed the lyrics were her way to categorical her considerations for Rodrigo working with the new music marketplace and general public awareness.

“Olivia was getting large, and she was just, like, this tiny dainty little one. I felt so anxious,” Eilish confessed. “I was nervous about her. She arrived up in that acting earth, and people are so odd. I don’t know — I just felt incredibly protective around her.”

It is accurate that Rodrigo has experienced to deal with a good deal of drama from the initial instant of her achievements. “Drivers License” triggered a tidal wave of rumors as admirers loudly speculated who the breakup monitor was about. Then two tunes on her debut album faced copyright drama around similarities to Paramore and Taylor Swift songs. Most not too long ago, the singer has experienced to side-step increasing enthusiast theories that she experienced some kind of rift with Swift.

But thankfully, Rodrigo has managed to fly substantial above all the drama, just like the gold-winged angel Eilish was singing about.