Billie Eilish; Dua Lipa.Photo:Getty
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Sorry fans, you won’t be catchingDua LipaandBillie Eilishsinging karaoke anytime soon.
During a roundtable conversation onOff Script with The Hollywood Reporter, the stars, along with fellow singer-songwritersOlivia Rodrigo,Cynthia Erivo,Julia MichaelsandJon Batiste, were asked what their go-to karaoke song was.
Michaels, 30, was first to blurt out her answer: “‘Wanna Be,‘Spice Girls,” she said. Then, Erivo, 36, said her favorite wasTina Turner’s “We Don’t Need Another Hero.”
“Mine is ‘Dancing Queen,’ Abba,” Rodrigo, 20, added as everyone agreed it was a great song.
“I’m just like, ‘Haven’t you heard enough of me singing onstage?’ I don’t know, like I was at a party and they had karaoke and they were like, ‘Billie you should do it.’ And I was like, you don’t need me to do that.'”
Elsewhere in the interview, Lipa spoke aboutthe process behind creating “Dance the Night,”herGrammy-nominatedhit off theBarbiesoundtrack. The“Houdini”singer explained that, although she was out on tour when she first heard from the soundtrack’s producerMark Ronson, making the collaboration work was “an absolute no-brainer.”
The Grammy winner made time to travel to New York City to get in the studio and speak to director Greta Gerwig, 40, about her vision.
The “Levitating” singer continued, “And so ‘Dance the Night’ was created specifically for Barbie’s best day ever, which then results in her thinking about death. So it’s really about those dualities of life and being able to merge the two together.”
Meanwhile, Eilish opened up about her creative struggles before writing"What Was I Made For?“with her brother and collaboratorFinneas, which was also forBarbie.
“I honestly was concerned that it was over for me,” she said. “We’d been trying and it wasn’t doing what it usually would do in me. I was honestly like, ‘Damn, maybe I hit my peak and I don’t know how to write anymore?’”
But a call from writer-director Gerwig in January asking her to write a song for theBarbiesoundtrack changed everything.
“Greta saved me, really, honestly,” the pop star told the outlet. “It brought us out of it and immediately we were inspired and wrote so much more after that.”
source: people.com
