Billie Eilish Says ‘Ocean Eyes’ Would ‘Not Even Exist Without’ Lana Del Rey

Billie Eilish is continuing to celebrate her full-circle performance with Lana Del Rey at Coachella last weekend.

In an Instagram Story post on Wednesday, Eilish wrote that singing 2012’s “Video Games” and her breakthrough hit “Ocean Eyes” felt like “literally a hallucination,” and credited Del Rey for being the reason behind her Don’t Smile At Me track.

 “This song wouldn’t even exist without her,” she wrote about “Ocean Eyes,” posting a video of Del Rey at singing the track at the music festival. On stage last Friday, Eilish declared that the Lust for Life singer was “the reason for half of you bitches’ existence, including mine.”

Eilish has long been an avowed Lana fan, and when the two spoke to each other for Interview magazine last year, Eilish told her: “You really paved the way for everyone. People have been trying to look and sound like you since you first started. I talk about this with Finneas. You changed the way the music industry hears and sees music, and you changed the way people sing.”

In the same conversation, Del Rey recalled, “I remember seeing the first videos of you singing and I said to my managers, ‘She’s the one… This is the girl. She isn’t just talented. You can tell she’s kind.’ It didn’t feel like you were aspiring to be anything. It’s crazy to have that magical quality.” At Coachella, Del Rey called Eilish “the voice of a generation.”