Billie Eilish Felt ‘Deeply Moved’ After Writing Personal ‘Barbie’ Track ‘What Was I Made For’: ‘It Pulled Me Out Of Self-Doubt’
etcanada.comBillie Eilish is thanking “Barbie” and Greta Gerwig for pulling the singer out of feelings of self-doubt when she was asked to pen a song for the upcoming film.
Featured on the “Barbie” soundtrack, Eilish’s new song “What Was I Made For” — out today — arrived after a period in which she and her record-producing brother, Finneas, felt uninspired creatively. READ MORE: Billie Eilish Opens Up On Body-Shaming Comments: ‘It Still Hurts My Feelings’ “We’d really been having, both of us… Usually, it’s just me with the writer’s block, but not even writer’s block, but just the frustration in writing.
And Finneas has always been the one that’s like, ‘No, no, no, let’s write. Let’s write.’ And honestly, we were in a period of time where we were both … like through this last winter, we’ve both been incredibly uninspired,” she told Zane Lowe in a new Apple Music interview. “And we’ve still been working and trying to make stuff. “Honestly, that song was the first thing we’d written in a minute,” she admitted. “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.’ READ MORE: America Ferrera’s First Reaction To ‘Barbie’ Movie Was ‘What?
What?’ But Knew It Would Be ‘Amazing’ With Greta Gerwig And Margot Robbie On Board Eilish, 21, added that she and Finneas “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. “We were like, I was 15 years old, 16, 17, and he’s a teenager, you can imagine my thoughts of doubt.
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