- 2023-07-14
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MUSIC
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Billie Eilish Releases New Song “What Was I Made For?” from The Motion Picture “Barbie” Soundtrack
American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish joined in the upcoming film “Barbie” soundtrack.
She contributed a new song “What Was I Made For?” to the soundtrack.
She wrote and recorded the song with her brother FINNEAS at his home studio in Los Angeles.
Produced by Andrew Wyatt, FINNEAS, and Mark Ronson.
“Honestly, we were in a period of time where we were both... like through this last winter, we've both been incredibly uninspired,” Billie Eilish told Zane Lowe of Apple Music 1 about the song. “And we've still been working and trying to make stuff. And honestly, that song was the first thing we'd written in a minute. 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.'”
She continued, “We 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. Barbie and Greta just pulled it out of me, I don't know. Those first couple lyrics, 'I used to float, now I just fall down,' just came right out.”- cW8VLC9nnTo
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She added, “I did not think about myself once in the writing process. I was purely inspired by this movie and this character and the way I thought she would feel, and wrote about that. And then, over the next couple days, I was listening and I was like, girl, how did this … honestly, and I really don't mean this to come off a conceited way at all, but I do this thing where I make stuff that I don't even know is … like I'm writing for myself and I don't even know it.”
The accompanying music video was directed by Billie Eilish herself.
She said, “This video makes me cryyyyy.. it means so much to me and I hope it will mean just as much to you. don't have much to say other than that, I think it will speak for itself.”-
The film “Barbie” was directed by Greta Gerwig, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. The soundtrack was produced by British music producer Mark Ronson.
The film and the soundtrack will be released on July 21, 2023.
Mark Ronson told Rolling Stone, “I don't read a lot of scripts, but it was just everything I want in a movie. I was like, 'If I don't get this gig, this is gonna be my favorite movie of the year.'” - source : Apple Music
