Billie Eilishthinks “Bad Guy” is the “stupidest song in the world,” but it “works.”
The pop star, 21, opened up about her 2019 hit onJimmy Kimmel Live!during Tuesday night’s episode when the show’s host asked if there was a song that made her “uncomfortable” now.
“Objectively, ‘Bad Guy’ is like the stupidest song in the world, but it’s really good,” she told Kimmel. “It’s just like you have to understand, you have to have humor in it. Like, [on] that song I’m trolling. That song is supposed to be goofy, but it’s just funny because it’s dumb. It’s literally, like, ‘Duh.’ Like, what does that mean?”
The “Everything I Wanted” performer also discussed her thoughts on artists who are “very hateful towards their own music,” explaining that it’s “really frustrating because why are you doing this then?”
“I feel like we both are, like, fans of what we make,” she said of her work withFinneas. “I love my own music, and it definitely just changes and morphs with me and becomes whatever. I still cringe but I appreciate it, though.”
Elsewhere in the interview withJimmy Kimmel, Eilish discussed her hit single fromtheBarbiesoundtrack “What Was I Made For"and how she and her brother, 26, “kind of thrive” when they they are being “frank.”
“When we are being given a prompt, that is when we make my favorite thing,” she said. “I feel like it’s pretty hard for me to write my exact kind of feeling. I feel like that kind of goes for life in general: it’s hard to know how you feel in the moment. It’s much easier to, like, look back and go, ‘Damn, that’s how I was feeling,' and I feel like I do that a lot.”
“With music, I find it really hard to sit and write how I’m feeling, just from my own perspective and my own experience. I just have this feeling of ‘Ah, boring. Nobody cares. Everyone’s heard that before,'” she explains, before adding, that this song “was an assignment but it turned out to be how I felt.”
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In a recentcover story forAllure, Eilish revealed that “What Was I Made For” came together at a time that she and Finneas “couldn’t have been less inspired and less creative, but she said it “wrote itself.”
source: people.com
