Billie Eilish performs onstage during Lollapalooza on Aug. 3, 2023.Photo:Michael Hickey/Getty
Michael Hickey/Getty
Billie Eilishgave herBarbieneedle drop its proper moment on stage.
On Thursday night, the Grammy winner performed “What Was I Made For?” live for the first time during her headliningLollapaloozaset at Grant Park in Chicago.
Eilish, 21, played the song from the hit film while seated at the front of the stage with its music video playing in the background.
For those who weren’t in attendance, the “Happier Than Ever” singer showed off abold new look on Instagram on Thursdaywith a photo that revealed she had dyed her roots a bold red color to contrast with the rest of her black locks.
“Remember me?” Eilishcaptioned the image, which featured her stage outfit from her Lollapalooza set.
Eilish wore a black, white, and red Chicago Bulls NBA jersey with bold red piping to match her red hair. She paired the look with layers of silver chains, a pair of sunglasses with orange-red lenses and red-bottomed sneakers.
Billie Eilish performs onstage during Lollapalooza at Grant Park.Michael Hickey/Getty
During her set, the singer alsopaid tribute to Angus Cloudwith her song “Never Felt So Alone.” The actor, who starred as Fezco in the hit HBO seriesEuphoria,died at age 25 at his family’s homein Oakland, California on Monday.
“RIP Angus Cloud everybody,” the singer said at the end of the track — which was recorded withLabrinth, and featured inEuphoria’ssecond season — amid cheers from the crowd.
Before Eilish and her brother, music producer and songwriterFinneas, came up with theirBarbiesoundtrack contribution, “What I Was Made For?,” sheendured a period of self-doubt.
In aninterview with Apple Music 1 host Zane Lowefrom July, Eilish said the song came about when they were experiencing a “frustration in writing.”
“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,” Eilish explained. “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.”
Luckily for the pop star,Barbieand directorGreta Gerwig"just pulled it out of me, I don’t know."
Eilish and Finneas, 25, saw an early cut ofBarbie, with just Gerwig and a few producers at Warner Bros, she told Lowe. At the end of the screening, Gerwig asked them to “make something” if they were inspired. Finneas wondered if they should write a “Barbie song,” but Eilish rejected that idea. She also realized that writing the track would be different from writing their Oscar-winning title song toNo Time to Die. Soon the lyrics to “What I Was Made For?” just “came right out,” she said.
source: people.com
