Lily Collins didn’t understand Phil Collins’ Genesis songs have been actual

It wasn’t till maturity that Lily Collins realized Genesis was not a fever dream.

The Emily in Paris star and daughter of Genesis frontman Phil Collins lately opened up about her uncommon relationship to the band’s music throughout a go to to Watch What Occurs Dwell, after being requested to call her favourite tune from the Rock and Roll Corridor of Famers.

“You recognize the humorous factor is that I’ve these reminiscences as a child of songs that I don’t know in the event that they’re really actual,” she instructed host Andy Cohen. “As a result of they have been like, in my head, as I used to be possibly within the womb.”

Laughing, the actress defined, “However then once I went to the primary Genesis live performance that I really remembered as an grownup, there have been songs that got here on that I went, ‘That’s an actual tune?! I assumed that was only a melody in my head.’”

Listening to her father’s music with a crowd was an actual revelation for Lily, who added, “It was actually bizarre.” That mentioned, she had no drawback naming her favourite Phil Collins tune: “In all probability ‘Within the Air Tonight,’” she mentioned. “There’s too many.”

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Again in 2022, Lily, who’s the daughter of Collins and Jill Tavelman, spoke to Glamour about starting her profession in her father’s shadow and defined that regardless of wanting to construct a reputation for herself, she by no means thought-about altering her final identify to distance herself from his fame.

“I’m so extremely happy with what my surname represents, for what my dad’s finished,” she instructed the outlet. “And I’m an extremely proud daughter, however I’m going alone path, my very own journey. I didn’t wish to change my final identify.”

She added that on the identical time, being launched as “Phil Collins’ daughter” was usually irritating. “I so badly wished to all the time battle that, as a result of it wasn’t the place that I used to be coming from. And so I’m actually happy with the place I’m right this moment as a result of I understand how laborious I work,” she mentioned.

That very same yr, the Love, Rosie star attended Genesis’ last efficiency at London’s O2 Enviornment, closing out their The Final Domino tour. Whereas Phil supplied vocals for the band, well being points made him unable to do the drumming, which led to his son Nic becoming a member of the group on tour.

“Tonite [sic] marks the top of an period,” Lily wrote after the present, sharing footage from the efficiency and pictures of herself backstage. “To have witnessed this final present was actually the reminiscence of a lifetime and an occasion I shall maintain in my coronary heart perpetually. Endlessly grateful does not start to do it justice. A lot love was left on that O2 stage and a good greater quantity shared between an viewers who did not need it to finish.”

She added, “Thanks @genesis_band for the reminiscences, thanks dad for being such an inspiration and thanks @nic_collins for making me the proudest sister there’s. 50 years of songs later and nonetheless generations extra to rejoice you lengthy after this tour has completed…”

You possibly can hear Lily speak about her father’s music within the WWHL clip above.