Billie Eilish says “Barbie” saved her from a 'dark episode' when she questioned 'the point' of living

"Any recognition that this song gets I just want to dedicate to anyone who experiences hopelessness and the feeling of existential dread…"

Margot Robbie's road to personal liberation in Barbie didn't just resonate with the titular doll's life in plastic. Billie Eilish has revealed that working on the soundtrack for director Greta Gerwig's blockbuster changed her perspective on living, too.

The Oscar-winning 22-year-old singer-songwriter joined her brother and songwriting partner, Finneas O'Connell, on stage alongside Gerwig to accept the Chariman's Award at the Palm Springs Film Awards on Thursday, opening up about her mental health journey and how the movie helped pull her out of a particularly dark period as she wrote the song "What Was I Made For?"

"Any recognition that this song gets I just want to dedicate to anyone who experiences hopelessness and the feeling of existential dread and feeling like, 'What’s the point and why am I here and what am I doing this for?'" Eilish said. "I think we all feel like that occasionally. If somebody like me with the amount of privilege that I have and the incredible things I get to do and be, and how I have really not wanted to be here — sorry, it’s kinda dark, damn — but I’ve spent a lot of time feeling that way, and I just want to say to anyone that feels that way, be patient with yourself and know that it is, I think, worth it all, and I think that it’s good to be alive now."

Eilish recalled that she was in the middle of a notably difficult time in her life when she began working on the Barbie song, and that the process helped rejuvenate her creativity and outlook on life.

"I didn’t feel like that for a very long time, and, especially when we were asked to write this song, I was in a dark episode, I guess, and things didn’t make sense," she said. "Life, I just didn’t understand what the point was, and why we keep going. [I was] questioning everything in the world, and, honestly, going to see the movie and being shown the small amount we were shown… I was just watching Barbie, like, say and feel things that I really resonated with and felt. I felt so seen, and I did not expect that, and I think this movie is the most incredible, most empowering, beautiful, funny, and unbelievable piece of art in the world, and I‘m so honored to be a part of it."

Eilish, who may earn another Oscar nomination for her work on Barbie two years after she won Best Original Song for writing No Time to Die's titular track — has spoken before about her mindset while writing "What Was I Made For?"

"We wrote it in a period of time where we couldn't have been less inspired and less creative," she told Allure in September. "That day we were making stuff, and were like, 'We've lost it. Why are we even doing this?' And then those first chords happened, and 'I used to float / Now I just fall down' came out, and the song wrote itself."

Watch Eilish's emotional awards acceptance speech above.

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