![]() MICHAELS I don’t really have a good story. We were playing the ukulele and it was a song about ukuleles. I feel like the first song that I wrote, I was 6, and it was me and my friend. Were you going through something at the time as an 8-year-old?ĮILISH No. Olivia Rodrigo Photographed by Austin Hargrave I was like, “Man, characters and worlds and the expression of all these interconnected relationships, how can we make all these sounds come together?” That was the end of it. It’s the one thing that, at home, we just always remind ourselves of.īATISTE I was doing a lot of music, instrumentally, for many years, and I started writing lyrics for a Shakespeare play that wanted songs in the play. I’d walk around the house, and I’d be like, “When I grow up, can I borrow your shoes? And when I grow up, can I wear your dress? And when I grow up, can I be just like you?” It actually just stuck around. Albanian was my first language, and so I sang it in Albanian, and it was a song I’d made for my mom. I mean, when I was about 4 or 5 years old, I made up this song. ![]() I guess the first song that I wrote on piano, proper, I was probably 14 or 15, and I wrote this feminist anthem called “Superman,” about how I didn’t need Superman to come and save me. Rounding out THR’s annual Songwriter Roundtable are Michaels, who has penned hits for Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez and wrote “This Wish” (performed by Ariana DeBose) for Disney’s Wish Grammy darling and Oscar winner Jon Batiste, who composed “It Never Went Away” for the Netflix doc American Symphony, which follows Batiste at a career high while his wife battles leukemia and Tony, Emmy and Grammy winner Cynthia Erivo, who wrote “It Would Be” for the indie film Drift, which she stars in and produced.īillie Eilish Photographed by Austin Hargrave “It brought us out of it and immediately we were inspired and wrote so much more after that.” A frontrunner for best original song at the 2024 Oscars, Eilish is joined by other contenders: Lipa, with her disco bop “Dance the Night,” also from Barbie and Rodrigo - on a white-hot streak with her GUTS album - who wrote the eerie and powerful “Can’t Catch Me Now” for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. “Greta saved me, really, honestly,” Eilish says. The result was the emotional and scene-stealing “What Was I Made For?” that Eilish wrote with her brother and musical partner, Finneas. I was honestly like, ‘Damn, maybe I hit my peak and I don’t know how to write anymore?’ ” Struggling for inspiration, the 21-year-old had hit a wall, until Greta Gerwig called in January with an assignment: Write a song for Barbie. “We’d been trying and it wasn’t doing what it usually would do in me. ![]() “I honestly was concerned that it was over for me,” Billie Eilish confesses at a table with Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo, Jon Batiste, Cynthia Erivo and Julia Michaels, who came together to discuss their songwriting prowess and process. ![]()
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