The soundtrack for summer’s most-anticipated new film Barbie is going to be epic and Billie Eilish was revealed as one of its last acts. She set the stage for the film’s premiere this week by channeling her inner Barbie in a reflective music video for “What Was I Made For?”
The self-directed video shows Eilish channeling her inner Barbie with a blonde ponytail and retro yellow dress. She tries to put her doll-sized clothes on a tiny rack, all inspired by the singer’s iconic outfits from past years, but wind and rain repeatedly knock it down before she decides to pack it all up and walk out of the frame.
Eilish admitted she was facing a writing block before Greta Gerwig approached her to write a song for the soundtrack, and the lyrics eventually ended up reflecting both Barbie’s and her own journey.
“I did not think about myself once in the writing process. I was purely inspired by this movie and this character and the way I thought she would feel and wrote about that. And then, over the next couple of days, I was listening and I was like… I’m writing for myself and I don’t even know it,” Eilish told Zane Lowe.
“What Was I Made For?” will be one of the songs featured on star-studded Barbie: The Album, set to come out on July 21, along with the film.
