Billie Eilish thought her career was over before ‘Barbie’: ‘Greta saved me’

Billie Eilish thought her career was sinking until she was called by Greta Gerwig to participate in the soundtrack of Barbie. “I was like, ‘Damn, maybe I’ve reached my peak and now I don’t know how to write anymore,'” the singer recalled in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter (via People).

In January, a call from the director changed everything: “Greta It really saved me. She got us out of that situation, inspired us immediately and we wrote a lot more after that,” he said. Eilish.

The artist had already discussed the period of uncertainty during a conversation with the presenter Zane Lowe: “We were in a zone of feeling lost and thinking like, ‘Man, I don’t know if we can keep doing this.'”

Billie and the older brother, Finneasthey couldn’t have been more wrong and managed to compose “What I Was Made For”, a track that secured several nominations for Grammy. “At the beginning of writing this song, on the first day, Finneas and I — especially me, because from my perspective — were thinking purely about Barbie“, he stated Billie.

“I didn’t even think about myself once while I was composing. And it was like that with the first verse, the chorus… All in a single night.”