Billie Eilish won an Oscar for the song “‘What I Was Made For,” which was a theme song in the movie Barbie.
This weekend I came across a video of Eilish explaining that she recorded a “gazillion” takes of the word “how.” It appears in the line, “I don’t know how to feel.”
In other words, it took that many takes to get it exactly right so we would feel something when we heard her sing that line.
There are no shortcuts to extraordinary. Either we do what it takes to get it right, or we don’t. And sometimes to get it right takes a gazillion hows.
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