Billie Eilish and her brother and principal collaborator Finneas O’Connell gained the award for tune of the 12 months on the 2024 Grammys, for “What Was I Made For?” from the Barbie soundtrack.
After Lionel Richie introduced the winner, Eilish was visibly shocked. “Yikes… Rattling, that’s silly guys,” the singer mentioned when taking the stage.
Eilish mentioned she was certain there was “not an opportunity” they’d win. “I simply need to say, all people on this class — like that was a loopy listing of unimaginable individuals! Unimaginable artists. Loopy proper now,” she added, referring to her fellow nominees, together with SZA, Taylor Swift, and Miley Cyrus.
She went on to thank members of the Recording Academy and O’Connell who she referred to as her “finest buddy on this planet and makes me the person who I’m right now.”
Eilish additionally gave particular due to Barbie director Greta Gerwig for “making the perfect film of the 12 months,” a pointed shout-out after the headline-making Oscars snubs for Gerwig as director and star Margot Robbie as finest actress.
“We’re so fortunate — we simply proceed to be simply deeply, deeply privileged, fortunate individuals,” O’Connell mentioned. “It’s exhausting to really feel deserving ever however we actually don’t proper now. We really feel very humble, very grateful.”
Eilish’s ballad earned 5 nominations at this 12 months’s ceremony, together with for document of the 12 months, finest pop solo efficiency and finest music video. Eilish and O’Connell took the stage earlier within the present to carry out the emotional observe. Forward of their efficiency, they’d already gained the Grammy for finest tune written for visible media.
Eilish has gained a complete of seven Grammys with 25 nominations. This Grammy marked Eilish and O’Connell’s third within the tune of the 12 months class.
“What Was I Made For” was additionally nominated for an Academy Award for finest authentic tune. Eilish and O’Connell beforehand gained the Oscar for authentic tune in 2022 for the title observe to the James Bond No Time to Die.
Backstage Eilish admitted that previous to writing the tune for Barbie, they’d been “writing completely nothing.” “We had been working three days every week and never arising with stuff, and even when we had been arising with stuff it simply didn’t really feel proper, didn’t really feel good, didn’t really feel actual,” she mentioned. “And I obtained actually frightened, I obtained nervous, I felt prefer it was going to be over somewhat bit. I used to be in an actual darkish place, actually, actually darkish place, it’s sort of exhausting to assume again to it.”
Eilish credited Gerwig for providing the “life-changing” alternative, additionally noting that she and O’Connell wrote the tune inside 24 hours after seeing the movie. “We wrote it underneath two hours, if not one hour, and truthfully from then on we had been simply inventive once more. I don’t know, it simply woke us up and obtained us on our factor and it was actually particular and highly effective and I maintain it deep and expensive to my coronary heart and my chest,” Eilish mentioned.
Different songs nominated within the class included: “A&W” (Jack Antonoff, Lana Del Rey & Sam Dew), “Anti-Hero” (Jack Antonoff & Taylor Swift), “Butterfly” (Jon Batiste & Dan Wilson), “Dance The Evening” (From Barbie The Album, Caroline Ailin, Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt), “Flowers” (Miley Cyrus, Gregory Aldae Hein & Michael Pollack), “Kill Invoice” (Rob Bisel, Carter Lang & Solána Rowe) and “vampire” (Daniel Nigro & Olivia Rodrigo).
For this 12 months’s Grammys, feminine acts make up seven of the eight nominees within the prime three classes — with SZA main with 9 general nominations adopted by Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Eilish, Miley Cyrus and boygenius with six nods a chunk.
The Grammy Awards telecasted reside from L.A. on Sunday on the CBS Tv Community. It additionally streamed reside and on-demand on Paramount+. Trevor Noah hosted.