Billie Eilish talks about the “What Was I Made For?” soundtrack and “Barbie”: “It was about me”

The singer revealed that she wrote the song in “an hour or two”

Cover of the new edition of Allure Magazine, Billie Eilish revealed details about the creative process of “What was I created for?”a hit song featured in the soundtrack of “Barbie” (2023).

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According to the singer, she and Finneas O’Connell, his brother and collaborator, wrote the song in “an hour or two”. Additionally, Eilish spoke about the importance of the song that has moved so many women.

“It was like this song had been a little creature inside me for years, clawing at my insides. As soon as we got the warning, the creature said, ‘OK, I’m out,’ and we wrote this song in a Now.” or two,” she said.

“We wrote it during a period of time when we couldn’t have been less inspired and less creative. We were doing stuff that day and we thought, ‘We’ve lost control. Why are we doing this?’ And then those first chords came, and ‘I used to float / now I fall’ came out and the song wrote itself.”remembered.

Billie continued: “I have the full video of us writing the song, and the first things we wrote were these lines in the first 10 minutes. We wrote most of the song not thinking about ourselves and our lives, but thinking about this character who inspired us.”

A few days passed and I realized it was about me. That’s all I hear. And it’s not just me: everyone feels this way at some point.”

“The way music was heard and seen by women is very special to me,” Billie says. “All the videos are devastating. I go on TikTok and see videos about how difficult it is to be a woman, with that song playing”She said.

About the first time he sang “What was I created for?” live, Eilish said: “I was freaking out. But you open your eyes and there are thousands of people crying over a song that just came out that used to be just mine, but now it means something to all of them.”

Source: Terra

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