{"id":117286,"date":"2024-03-11T12:01:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T12:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/03\/11\/oscars-2024-winner-billie-eilish-talks-barbie-gives-advice-to-aspiring-musicians\/"},"modified":"2024-03-11T12:01:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T12:01:40","slug":"oscars-2024-winner-billie-eilish-talks-barbie-gives-advice-to-aspiring-musicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/03\/11\/oscars-2024-winner-billie-eilish-talks-barbie-gives-advice-to-aspiring-musicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars 2024: Winner Billie Eilish talks ‘Barbie,’ gives advice to aspiring musicians"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At the Oscars on March 10, Ryan Gosling<\/strong>‘s performance of “I’m Just Ken”<\/a> might have stolen the show, but it wasn’t the Barbie<\/em> tune that won the Best Original Song Oscar. The trophy went to “What Was I Made For?<\/a>” by Billie Eilish<\/strong> and her brother FINNEAS<\/strong>, who are now the only people ever to have won two Oscars before the age of 30.\u00a0 But backstage, Billie, 22, recalled a time in her life that she felt she’d never accomplish anything.<\/p>\n

Asked what advice she’d give to other young people dreaming of a career in music, Billie said, “Don’t do it for other people … I want everyone to be doing something that they feel passionate about and that they feel proud of and that makes them feel like the best version of themself.”<\/p>\n

Her other piece of advice was to “give yourself time,” because she admitted that when she was 12, she felt like a washed-up loser after going to see the Broadway musical Matilda.<\/em><\/p>\n

“I was bawling in the back of the nosebleed [seats], and I was like, ‘I’m never going to amount to anything because I’m not in Matilda<\/em>!'” Billie recalled. “[So] I would just give yourself some time and do what you love.”<\/p>\n

She laughed, “And I know that’s kind of easier said than done, because some of us don’t really know what we love. But you’ll figure it out. You’ll find it.”<\/p>\n

Billie also commented on why she thought that Barbie<\/em> had been such worldwide sensation.<\/p>\n

“I think it made a lot of people feel very seen. And I think that can be rare, especially as a woman,” she said. “And I think that really resonated and, I think, traveled the world of feeling seen and heard and understood, y’know?”<\/p>\n