Billie Eilish has revealed that up till final yr, she believed U2 had been from Scranton, Pennsylvania – and never their precise stomping grounds of Dublin, Eire – as a result of a joke on The Workplace.
U2 shaped in 1976 in Dublin, whereas Eilish was born in 2001. “Beginning to watch The Workplace at a extremely younger age, I virtually didn’t perceive any reference by any means,” she defined on a latest episode of the Workplace Women podcast, which is hosted by stars Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey.
Eilish defined that as a result of Steve Carell’s Michael Scott stated so many issues mistaken over the course of The Workplace, she received them mistaken too “as a result of I discovered them from Michael Scott.”
The “worst” one got here courtesy of season 4 episode ‘Goodbye Toby Half One‘, which sees Scott ask Jim Halpert (John Krasinski): “Hey, what’s the group that was from Scranton that made it massive? Was that U2?” with Halpert replying, “Sure”.
“There’s no pause, there’s no snigger,” Eilish stated (through Consequence). “Truthfully, in my head, I assumed Jim thought, ‘Oh, that’s a silly query’ as a result of clearly, they’re the band that made it massive from Scranton… I assumed that was the vibe.”
Eilish went on to disclose that she solely came upon that U2 had been Irish when Bono despatched her flowers.
“This final June, we had been in Eire. I’m in my lodge and I get flowers delivered to my room. It has just a little letter on it and it’s this actually, actually candy letter and it says ‘From Bono,’” Eilish stated earlier than revealing that the notice stated, “Welcome to my hometown”.
“I used to be like, ‘Why would he ship me one thing in Eire? What does this must do with him?’ [because] U2 is from Scranton,” she added. “I saved asking everybody, ‘What’s Bono doing sending me flowers all the way in which internationally? Why would he try this?’ They had been like, ‘Billie, what are you speaking about? They’re Irish.’ I blame John for this.”
Billie Eilish is a self-confessed superfan of The Workplace. In 2020, she featured in a 12-part documentary, An Oral Historical past Of The Workplace, alongside a number of of the present’s stars. In 2019, it was revealed that the solid of the present had personally cleared samples utilized in ‘My Unusual Dependancy’ from Eilish’s debut album, ‘When We All Fall Asleep, The place Do We Go?’. The monitor options dialogue from the episode ‘Menace Stage Midnight’.
In the meantime, to rejoice his sixtieth birthday, U2 vocalist Bono shared a playlist of songs that “saved” his life, together with Eilish’s ‘Every little thing I Wished’.
