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Lady Gaga Wants to Mentor Billie Eilish

The pop star offered to take the teen under her wing.
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Lady Gaga wants to give Billie Eilish the A Star Is Born treatment, offering to take the 18-year-old under her wing and mentor her in the ways of the music world.

In an interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music, Gaga said she sent Eilish a bouquet of flowers and a note after the teen swept the Grammys in January taking home five awards, including Song and Album Of The Year.

“For me, it’s healing because it hurt me that I didn’t get that,” Gaga explained of the less-than-warm reception she received during her own early career successes. In 2009, the singer's first album, The Fame, was nominated for six Grammys including Album Of The Year. The album and its single "Poker Face" won Best Electronic/Dance Album and Best Dance Recording, respectively. Since then, she has gone on to be nominated for 21 Grammys, winning 9 times.

She continued, “I’m going to be that for someone else. I’ve had a harder time with older women in terms of having a female mentor. Other than Celine Dion and Carole King, it’s proven difficult to have someone who would show me the way. So I really hope that young female artists – or young artists of any gender identity or sexual identity – will know I am rooting for them.”

While Gaga may have struggled to find an older female confidente in the industry, she revealed there is actually one pop icon who's helped coach her along the way—Elton John.

“He’s been my mentor for a long time,” she told Lowe. “I mean, he’s always challenged me to keep my head above water and it’s something that I always appreciate is that he knows when I’m down. He just does. And he knows because I hide, because I never want anyone to see me when I’m like that.”

So if Eilish winds up accepting Gaga's offer would that make Elton her grand-mentor?

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