A version of this story originally appeared in the Race Begins issue of the TheWrap awards magazine.
Billie Eilish was ready to call it a day. It was late January of this year and she and Finneas, her brother and musical partner, had spent nine hours in the studio working on her upcoming third album. “We hit a wall that night,” Finneas said. “Billie was getting up to go and we were like, ‘Oh, maybe we’ll try to give this one a shot, see what happens.’”
“This one” was the song that director Greta Gerwig had asked the Oscar- and Grammy-winning duo to write for her film “Barbie,” a rough cut of which she’d recently screened for them.
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