Billie Eilish Admits She Doesn't Know Who Van Halen Is

On November 22nd, singer Billie Eilish was a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! where she played a trivia game with Kimmel, who listed a bunch of objects and famous people that were popular before she was born. After Eilish confirmed that she did in fact know who Madonna is, she was asked about Van Halen, and her response of "WHO?" pretty much lit the internet on fire. After the clip went viral, many took to Twitter to mock the 17-year old for not knowing the band.

 
Some tweeted out their feelings, despite their fears that they might be sounding too much like a Boomer.

 
Some were scared that members of the band were trending because they had passed.

 
According to them, how could a musician that claims to love older sounds not know the band?

 
Several were just happy to see their favorite band get attention in 2019.

 
To them, this was a big deciding factor if they should like Billie Eilish or not.

Twitter also offered some interesting conspiracy theories.

And some were downright confused altogether.

Why is everybody yelling about @billyeichner and Van Helsing?

— 👋just jackie👋 (@jackienumber3) December 3, 2019

And then of course came the tweets in defense of Billie Eilish.

Apparently Billie Eilish doesn't know who Van Halen are. It's a long shot, but I wonder if there are any righteous middle-aged men available online to respond to this.

— Van Halen Were Mediocre Mancino-Williams (@Manda_like_wine) December 2, 2019

 
Other musicians weighed in on the conversation.

Y’all just jealous because now billieeilish</a> gets to listen to Van Halen for the first time</p>&mdash; Jason Isbell (JasonIsbell) December 3, 2019

 
Including America's favorite band.

We grew up listening to #VanHalen and we're old as fck so why would billieeilish</a> know who they are? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NoDiss?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NoDiss</a></p>&mdash; Smash Mouth (smashmouth) December 2, 2019

 
Some were even jealous of the singer.

Billie Eilish is so lucky not to know who Van Halen is I wish I could be unburdened in the same way

— Sloppy Jane (@sloppyjanemusic) December 2, 2019

 
Memes were used to emphasize the age gap that was causing the rift.

everyone over 40 on twitter today complaining about billie eilish and van halen pic.twitter.com/GbBMBcZMnz

— guy fieri 2020 campaign manager (@libbycwatson) December 3, 2019

 
This debacle even called attention to other mysteries that needed to be solved.

Billie Eilish died in a boarding school in 1764 and has been a ghost ever since so it IS odd she hasn’t heard of Van Halen before

— Ira Madison III (@ira) December 2, 2019

 
Luckily the whole 'feud" was seemingly put to rest after Eddie Van Halen's son tweeted out his support for Eilish.

If you haven’t heard of billieeilish</a>, go check her out. She’s cool. If you haven’t heard of <a href="https://twitter.com/VanHalen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">VanHalen, go check them out. They’re cool too.Music is supposed to bring us together, not divide us. Listen to what you want and don’t shame others for not knowing what you like.

— Wolf Van Halen (@WolfVanHalen) December 2, 2019