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Barbie fever is spreading the world with the eager anticipation for the upcoming new movie starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.
And one person who has transformed their look is songstress Billie Eilish. The 21-year-old singer has showcased a blonde retro look for the music video of her emotional ballad for the movie.
The tune, which features on the Barbie movie soundtrack, is titled What Was I Made For. In the video for the sure-to-be hit, Billie wears a yellow 1950s-style dress and shows off a brand new high-ponytail blonde hairstyle for the self-directed video.
Opening up about the production and song, Billie explained it "means so much to me and I hope it will mean just as much to you".
In the video, the star is seen sitting at a desk while she sorts a number of doll versions of her red carpet looks before hanging them onto a mini clothing rail as her delicate vocals play in the background. The moment is quickly disrupted though when wind and rain interrupts her day, leaving Eilish cutting a flustered and soaking wet figure.
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Billie Eilish transformed for her music video (Billie Eilish/Instagram)The pop star took to Instagram to share and revealed her and her brother Finneas wrote the song in almost one night after the Barbie movie director Greta Gerwig showed them a handful of unfinished scenes of the film earlier this year.
She said: "We had no idea what to expect at all… We were so deeply moved.. that the next day we were writing and couldn’t shut up about it. And ended up writing almost the entire song that night.
"To be real with you this all seemed to happen in a time when I really needed it. I’m so so thankful for that. This video makes me cry. It means so much to me and I hope it will mean just as much to you."
Eilish continued: "Don’t have much to say other than that, I think it will speak for itself, enjoy."
In an interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music, Eilish also confessed how both her and her brother had been struggling with writer’s block until the Barbie soundtrack opportunity came along.
She told the host: "Through this last winter, we’ve both been incredibly uninspired. And we’ve still been working and trying to make stuff. And honestly, that song was the first thing we’d written in a minute.
Billie Eilish said she had writer's block before the Barbie film (FilmMagic)"Even though we were coming up with ideas… I remember after we wrote that first half, I go, ‘I think we still got it’."
“We were really in a zone of feeling like we lost it and feeling like ‘Man, I don’t know if we can do this anymore’… And Barbie and Greta just pulled it out of me.”
Eilish's tune is one of many from huge artists in the screenplay. Other songs include Single Dance The Night by Dua Lipa, which has already been released, as well as Speed Drive by Charli XCX.
Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice have also created a rap adaptation of Aqua’s classic track Barbie Girl - with the original currently coming in for some criticism.
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Also on the impressive line-up are Lizzo, Ava Max, Sam Smith, Dominic Fike, three-piece family band Haim, British artist Pink Pantheress and Australian instrumentalist Tame Impala.