FINNEAS was like, “Should we try to write a Barbie song?” and I literally was like, “Dog, No. What? We’re not gonna make a- come on,” I thought about like “No Time To Die” That was months of thinking and talking and coming up with different melodies and stuff, and that was also one of my favorite processes of all time but very different, and I was like, “We can’t recreate that, like how are we gonna do that?” and we truly sat down, and Finneas started playing piano and those first couple lyrics “I used to float, now I just fall down” just came right out.

—via YouTube

I find it really hard to write about my exact feelings in my life and so ‘What was I made for’ would never ever been written, even though it is. Every single lyric is exactly how I feel, it’s about my life.

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I was absolutely writing about myself, but I was thinking about myself from a third person and I was thinking about myself objectively which also made me feel really connected to (her) me.

–via Apple Music interview