You would possibly simply have Barbie to thank for Billie Eilish‘s subsequent album. In a brand new interview following the discharge of the 21-year-old pop star’s Barbie movie soundtrack single “What Was I Made For?,” Eilish confessed that the mission, which dropped with a self-directed music video on Thursday (July 13), pulled her and brother/producer Finneas out of a brutal writing droop tormented by self-doubt.
“Truthfully, we had been in a time frame the place we had been each… like via this final winter, we’ve each been extremely uninspired,” Eilish advised Zane Lowe for Apple Music 1. “And we’ve nonetheless been working and attempting to make stuff. And truthfully, that music was the very first thing we’d written in a minute. Though we had been developing with concepts and developing with this and that, I bear in mind after we wrote that first half, I’m going, ‘I feel we nonetheless received it.’”
The “Dangerous Man” singer additionally shared that the writing course of started with director Greta Gerwig treating her and Finneas to a particular viewing of a tough reduce of Barbie on the Warner Brother Studios. The very subsequent day, the brother-sister musicians weren’t having any success in writing music unbiased of the movie — however after they on a whim shifted into writing what would grow to be “What Was I Made For?” from Barbie’s perspective, their author’s block instantly dissipated.
“We had been actually in a zone of feeling like we misplaced it and feeling like, man, I don’t know if we are able to do that anymore,” she added. “Barbie and Greta simply pulled it out of me, I don’t know,” Eilish mentioned. “These first couple lyrics, ‘I used to drift, now I simply fall down,’ simply got here proper out.”
One of the crucial inspiring issues to come back out of the writing course of, Eilish added, was how a music written strictly from the perspective of Margot Robbie’s titular character in Barbie one way or the other got here full circle, with the “Happier Than Ever” artist realizing that she associated to the lyrics with out even attempting to.
“I didn’t take into consideration myself as soon as within the writing course of,” the Grammy winner defined. “I used to be purely impressed by this film and this character and the way in which I believed she would really feel, and wrote about that. After which, over the subsequent couple days, I used to be listening and I used to be like, lady, how did this … truthfully, and I actually don’t imply this to come back off a immodest method in any respect, however I do that factor the place I make stuff that I don’t even know is … like I’m writing for myself and I don’t even realize it.”
“It is without doubt one of the most unbelievable issues I get to expertise in my life,” Eilish continued. “Dude, the subsequent week I used to be enjoying it within the automotive all day and enjoying it for everyone. And I used to be like, ‘That is precisely how I really feel. And I didn’t even imply to be saying it.’ It was really the trippiest factor I’ve ever skilled in my life. I used to be like, oh, I completely was writing about myself, however I used to be excited about myself from a 3rd particular person.”
Watch Billie’s interview with Apple Music 1 above.
