You could simply have Barbie to say thanks to for Billie Eilish‘s next album. In a new interview following the release of the 21-year-old pop star’s Barbie movie soundtrack solitary “What Was I Made For?,” Eilish admitted that the task, which went down with a self-directed video on Thursday (July 13), drew her and also brother/producer Finneas out of a harsh composing depression pestered by insecurity.
“Honestly, we were in a period of time where we were both… like through this last winter, we’ve both been incredibly uninspired,” Eilish informed Zane Lowe for Apple Music 1. “And we’ve still been working and trying to make stuff. And honestly, that song was the first thing we’d written in a minute. Even though we were coming up with ideas and coming up with this and that, I remember after we wrote that first half, I go, ‘I think we still got it.’”
The “Bad Guy” vocalist additionally shared that the composing procedure started with supervisor Greta Gerwig treating her and also Finneas to an unique watching of a harsh cut of Barbie at the Warner Brother Studios. The extremely following day, the brother-sister artists weren’t having any type of success in composing songs independent of the movie — yet when they on an impulse changed right into composing what would certainly end up being “What Was I Made For?” from Barbie’s viewpoint, their author’s block quickly dissipated.
“We were really in a zone of feeling like we lost it and feeling like, man, I don’t know if we can do this anymore,” she included. “Barbie and Greta just pulled it out of me, I don’t know,” Eilish claimed. “Those first couple lyrics, ‘I used to float, now I just fall down,’ just came right out.”
One of one of the most motivating points to find out of the composing procedure, Eilish included, was just how a tune composed purely from the viewpoint of Margot Robbie’s titular personality in Barbie in some way came cycle, with the “Happier Than Ever” musician recognizing that she connected to the verses without also attempting to.
“I did not think about myself once in the writing process,” the Grammy victor discussed. “I was purely inspired by this movie and this character and the way I thought she would feel, and wrote about that. And then, over the next couple days, I was listening and I was like, girl, how did this … honestly, and I really don’t mean this to come off a conceited way at all, but I do this thing where I make stuff that I don’t even know is … like I’m writing for myself and I don’t even know it.”
“It is one of the most incredible things I get to experience in my life,” Eilish proceeded. “Dude, the next week I was playing it in the car all day and playing it for everybody. And I was like, ‘This is exactly how I feel. And I didn’t even mean to be saying it.’ It was truly the trippiest thing I’ve ever experienced in my life. I was like, oh, I absolutely was writing about myself, but I was thinking about myself from a third person.”
Watch Billie’s meeting with Apple Music 1 over.
