Billie Eilish recalls ‘dark episode’ while writing hit song ‘Barbie’ – The Hollywood Reporter

Billie Eilish, Greta Gerwig and Finneas at the Palm Springs Film Awards in Palm Springs on January 4, 2024.

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Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell had another hit with “What Was I Made For,” a Greta Gerwig song. Barbie Which has already received a Golden Globe nomination and five Grammy Award nominations including Record and Song of the Year.

And on Thursday night in the desert, the song brought them on stage to receive the Chairman’s Award during the Palm Springs Film Awards, and Eilish took the opportunity to dedicate the trophy to her target audience while also revealing emotional truths about her life and when he wanted it to end.

“I would really like to say that this award and any recognition that this song gets, I just want to dedicate it to anyone who’s struggling with despair, feeling existential dread, feeling like, what’s the point, why am I here, why am I here?” Did this?” Eilish explained while standing next to her brother on stage inside the Palm Springs Convention Center after honoring Gerwig (making them the first musicians to ever receive the honor). “I think we all feel that from time to time, but I think if there’s Someone like me, with how much privilege I have and the amazing things I can do and how I am and how I didn’t really want to be here… Sorry to be dark, dammit, but I spent a lot of time feeling this way.

She then had a message for those who find themselves in a similar situation: “I just want to say to anyone who feels this way, be patient with yourself and know that, in my opinion, it’s all worth it.” The superstar singer said “it’s good to be alive now” even though she hasn’t felt this way “for a very long time”.

When the husband approached to contribute to Barbie On the soundtrack, Eilish recalled that she “was in a dark cycle and things weren’t making sense in life. I just didn’t understand what the point was and why it would keep going. (I was) questioning everything in the world.”

Then she and her brother sat in the theater to watch about 35 minutes of footage that Gerwig had collected. “Basically, I was watching Barbie say and feel things that really resonated and felt close to her,” said Eilish, who then collaborated with her brother to translate those themes and questions into a powerful set of words that resonated with movie fans and music fans alike. That I saw that, and I didn’t expect that.” “I think this film is the most amazing, most empowering, beautiful, funny, incredible piece of art in the world, and I’m so honored to be a part of it.”

Eilish then handed the microphone to her brother, who focused his comments on their parents, Maggie Baird and Patrick O’Connell.

“Our parents were theater people before they were our parents. They met on a trip to Alaska to do regional theater in 1984, and in the 1990s they married each other and decided to start a family. They decided it might be a good idea to move from New York, where they were doing plays, to Los Angeles.” To do some things that would generate some residual income like film and television. “That didn’t work at all, and I think it reinforced for us as kids that it’s okay to have dreams that don’t come true the way you thought they might come true. She also stressed that the entertainment industry, like all industries, is unfair to some extent.

However, he continued, even though those dreams were derailed, “We were not raised by people who were bitter and couldn’t achieve their dreams. We were raised by people who did nothing but encourage us to believe in ourselves and pursue the dreams and passions we had. I don’t particularly know how they managed to do those two things, but they did, and we would be nothing and nowhere without our parents, and I love them dearly.