Billie Eilish worried she had lost her creative streak before penning ‘What Was I Made For?’
The 22-year-old pop star – who has sold 50 million records since beginning her career as a teenager – and her brother Finneas, 26, scooped Best Original Song at the Golden Globes 2024 for the melancholic track from Greta Gerwig’s smash hit movie ‘Barbie’ but explained that before sitting down to write the song, she felt as if she was struggling to “create” anything.
She told ‘Entertainment Tonight’: “It’s crazy, so crazy. When they announce it and they say your name and they say ‘This is Billie’s second nomination and second win’, I’m like ‘Whoa!’ Your stomach just flips, and like it’s crazy. I just was not feeling like I could create anymore and that wasn’t a problem in my life but it was a feeling of ‘What the hell?’ I’d come all this way, what if I couldn’t even do it anymore? But that movie was so inspiring and we had just written something that also had inspired us. Then we saw this movie and it was so…it just shot inspiration into us.”
The ‘bad guy’ hitmaker – who also won Best Original Song in 2022 for ‘No Time to Die ‘ from the James Bond movie of the same title – “forgets” that music can be used as a healing mechanism until she begins to find comfort in someone else’s work.
She said: “Isn’t it funny how music is [healing?] I sometimes forget and then I’m like just feeling any kind of feeling and I’m like ‘Man, I feel that way about your music!’ Isn’t that crazy? It’s crazy, it’s so cool. I’m stoked!”