already has a movie song to her credit – her “No Time to Die” delighted the members of the American Film Academy. Whether he will repeat this feat with a new song, we will only find out next year. Nevertheless, the song created for the soundtrack was played 3.6 million times on YouTube only 16 hours after its release.
This is Billie Eilish’s Barbie song
How did the song “What I Was Made For” come about? “In January Greta showed me and Finneas some scenes from an unfinished movie. We had no idea what to expect. We were so deeply moved that we were writing the next day and we couldn’t stop talking about it. And from that we ended up writing the whole song that same night. I have to tell you, it happened at the time I needed it most. I’m so grateful for that,” Billie Eilish described the process.
In an interview with Zan Low of Apple Music 1, the singer admitted that she received the proposal to record the song at a particularly difficult time for her, because she felt “frustration” associated with writing. Her brother Finneas struggled with similar problems: “We both lacked any inspiration last winter.” “We were constantly working and trying to do things. And honestly, this song was the first thing we did in the proverbial minute,” the 21-year-old artist confided. And it was dangerous because Billie wasn’t even sure if she was still capable of making music. Thanks to “What I Was Made For?” Eilish felt that “they still have it” and their self-doubt vanished.
Writing the song for “Barbie” was a completely different experience for them than writing the Oscar-winning song “No Time to Die” for a James Bond movie. This one just “went out”. Eilish recalls that that day, “they were only thinking about Barbie” and she was especially focused on that because the words are written from her perspective. “I never once thought about myself while writing. The first verse, the introduction to the chorus, the chorus and the second verse – all in one night,” she emphasized. The only inspiration for her and her brother were fragments of the film that Geta Gerwig showed them. They focused on conveying how the heroine might feel. Only then did Billie realize that the song was really about her and her feelings. At that moment, she realized that she was thinking of herself in the third person, which made her feel even more strongly connected to the movie (and not only) Barbie – reports
Billie Eilish also directed a minimalist music video, in which we see the singer sitting at a desk in a 1950s dress, taking clothes for Barbie from a wooden suitcase. At one point, a strong wind starts blowing in the studio, then heavy rain falls and Eilish runs out of the frame. “This clip makes me want to cry. It means a lot to me and I hope it will be significant to you too. I don’t think I need to say anything else because the whole thing will speak for itself,” she wrote under a fragment of the video on Instagram. Billie Eilish.
The official premiere of the song took place on July 13 at 4 p.m. Polish time. Listeners in the comments section on YouTube praise: “This blew my mind. The composition, voice progression, clothes – it all takes us back in time. I’ll be playing it over and over again for a very long time”, “It’s a real work of art”, “I cry because it appears here so many references thanks to these miniature clothes that refer to particular stages of Billie’s career, she proved that she has matured and surpassed her past self”, “It’s impossible for Billie to write a bad song”, they enumerate.
Recall – “Barbie” is a story about Barbie Land, which is “the perfect place, unless you are going through a serious existential crisis. Or you are Ken.” One day Barbie realizes that something is bothering her and from her fairytale land she goes to the world of real people, followed by Ken. And this is where the complications begin. The premiere of the film is scheduled for July 21, 2023. The director is Greta Gerwig and the film stars: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Isaa Rae, Rhea Perlman and Will Ferrell. The screenplay was written by Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach.
Source: Gazeta
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