Billie Eilish brought out Damon Albarn at Coachella months after he got backlash for comparing her to Taylor Swift
- Billie Eilish was the headline performer at Coachella music festival on Saturday.
- Damon Albarn made a surprise appearance to sing "Getting Older" and Gorillaz's "Feel Good Inc."
Damon Albarn made a surprise cameo at Coachella on Saturday to duet with Billie Eilish, the youngest headliner in the festival's history.
The British rocker appeared onstage during Eilish's performance of "Getting Older," the lead track on her sophomore album "Happier Than Ever."
Albarn appeared to forget some of the lyrics while singing the ballad, though Eilish laughed off his mistake.
"This is the craziest shit I've ever experienced," she said once the song concluded. "This man changed my life in a lot of ways and changed my complete view of what music could be, and what art could be, and what creation could be."
"Blur changed the world and fucking Gorillaz changed the world," she added, referring to Albarn's two famous bands. "This man is literally a genius and that's that."
After Eilish shared her thoughts on Albarn, he performed Gorillaz's biggest hit "Feel Good Inc." alongside the rapper Posdnuos of De La Soul.
Although Eilish has praised Albarn in the past, he recently received criticism for comparing Eilish's songwriting abilities to those of Taylor Swift.
During a January interview with the Los Angeles Times, Albarn incorrectly claimed that Swift "doesn't write her own songs."
"I'm not hating on anybody, I'm just saying there's a big difference between a songwriter and a songwriter who cowrites," he said.
In the same interview, Albarn praised Eilish as a "really interesting songwriter," calling her music "exceptional."
"I'm more attracted to that than to Taylor Swift," he said. "It's just darker — less endlessly upbeat. Way more minor and odd."
Eilish cowrites her music with her older brother and producer, Finneas O'Connell. In fact, O'Connell is credited as the sole writer on some of Eilish's most beloved songs, including "Ocean Eyes" and "When the Party's Over."
After Swift corrected him on Twitter, Albarn said his comments were the result of "clickbait."
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