Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell at the 2024 Golden Globes.Photo:CBS
CBS
Billie Eilishcelebrated winning best original song forBarbie’s “What Was I Made For?” with her brotherFinneas O’Connellat theGolden Globes2024.
“Thank you so much. To the Golden Globes, I was not expecting this in this moment. Thank you to my brother Finneas, you are the reason I am who I am,” the singer shared during her acceptance speech. “I want to thank Greta and Noah for making this incredible film. I want to thank Margot for being Margot — that we know and love.”
“I want to thank Mattel and Interscope, my label, and Darkroom and my incredible team — Chelsea and Michelle — and my managers and my mom. My mom and my dad and my brother again,” she continued.
“And you know, it was exactly a year ago almost that we were shown the movie and I was very, very miserable and depressed at the time and writing that song kind of saved me a little bit,” she concluded. “And a year later and here we are and it’s really surreal. I feel incredibly, incredibly lucky. Incredibly lucky and grateful and you guys scare the living hell out of me — everyone in this room — but thank you so much. Thank you, this means the world.”
Eilishand her brother, music producer and songwriterFinneas, wrote “What Was I Made For?” during a period of “frustration in writing,” as she toldApple Music 1 host Zane Lowein a July interview.
“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,” she said at the time. “It is one of the most incredible things I get to experience in my life. Dude, the next week I was playing it in the car all day and playing it for everybody. And I was like, ‘This is exactly how I feel. And I didn’t even mean to be saying it.’ "
The other nominees included Springsteen, 74, wrote “Addicted to Romance” for director Rebecca Miller’sShe Came to Me, which starsPeter Dinklage,Anne HathawayandMarisa Tomei. The movie follows a composer (Dinklage) who struggles to complete work on a new opera until he meets a woman named Katrina (Tomei), whom he begins an affair with.
Peter Dinklage in ‘She Came to Me’.Protagonist Pictures
Protagonist Pictures
The idea to ask legendary rocker Springsteen to write a song for the film came from composer Bryce Dessner as he and Miller reviewed a cut of the film,Varietyreported in October. Though the odds Springsteen would oblige seemed low, the musician was game.
“Bruce loved the idea. He loved the film,” Dessner, a member of the band The National, told the outlet. “There’s a line in the first opera and in the script: ‘I’m addicted to romance,’ which is also a through-line in the movie, and he wrote the song, ‘Addicted to Romance’ with his wife Patti Scialfa.”
Margot Robbie in ‘Barbie’.Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
“[Ronson] was like, ‘I’m working on this film withGreta Gerwigand it’sBarbie, and it’s possibly the funniest script I’ve read, and I really want you to write the song for the big dance scene in the film,' " Lipa recalled duringThe Hollywood Reporter’s Songwriter Roundtablein November. “I was like, ‘This is an absolute no-brainer. One thousand percent yes.’ "
Ryan Gosling in ‘Barbie’.Warner Bros
Warner Bros
Gosling and Ronson later teamed up to releaseKen The EPin December, including aChristmas-themed version of the song.Simu Liu, who played another Ken inBarbie, has alsoperformed the song livein recent months.
In July, Ronson toldVanity Fairthat Gosling enjoyed the track so much when he first heard it that he requested to perform the song on-screen in the movie, leading Gerwig torewrite an entire scene in order to fit in the performance.
“He really got [that] it had to walk this line of not being funny or parody,” Ronson toldVanity Fair. “But obviously, the song is also kind of ridiculous at times. So he was really amazing, and when he really did start hitting the big notes, I was like, ‘This dude is a vocal powerhouse!’”
Bowser in ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ and voice actor Jack Black.Universal ; Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty
“Jack Black is an incredible singer and musician, so we spent a night writing the song and sent the demo to Jack,” the movie’s director Aaron Horvath wrote in press notes for the film, as the outlet reported. “A couple days later, Jack sent us back a finished track. He had added his own twist on it and his pianist played an original music track for it. We were blown away.”
The Super Mario Bros. Moviewas also nominated for best animated motion picture and for the new category, cinematic and box office achievement award.
Colman Domingo in ‘Rustin’.NETFLIX
NETFLIX
“I was immediately intrigued, but first I had to be educated because I really didn’t know that much about Bayard Rustin, which in the end proved to me that his story needed to be told,” Kravitz said in the video. “The goal was to make a song that evoked the struggle and the triumph of the civil rights movement, as well as paying homage to Bayard Rustin.”
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