The 21-year-old Grammy winner admits in a new interview that she experienced creative struggles before penning the hit alongside her brother and collaborator FINNEAS.
- Nov 17, 2023
AceShowbiz - Billie Eilish didn't think her music career would continue before making "What Was I Made For?". In a new interview, the "bad guy" hitmaker admitted to having creative struggles before she wrote the "Barbie" hit.
"I honestly was concerned that it was over for me,” the 21-year-old singer opened up to a roundtable of Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo, Jon Batiste, Cynthia Erivo and Julia Michaels for a songwriter roundtable for The Hollywood Reporter. "We'd been trying and it wasn't doing what it usually would do in me."
The "Happier Than Ever" hitmaker went on to say, "I was honestly like, 'Damn, maybe I hit my peak and I don't know how to write anymore?' "
Things then took a turn when director Greta Gerwig reached out to her in January, asking her to write a song for the live-action adaptation movie of the Mattel doll starring Margot Robbie. The pop singer said, "Greta saved me, really, honestly. It brought us out of it and immediately we were inspired and wrote so much more after that."
This wasn't the first time for Billie to open up about having a "frustration in writing" before the creation of "What Was I Made For?". Speaking to Apple Music 1 host Zane Lowe, she revealed back in July, "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 went on to say, "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."
Billie noted that she and her brother "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.' And we were like, I was 15 years old, 16, 17, and he's a teenager, you can imagine my thoughts of doubt. Like, 'Oh, I can't do this anymore.' "
