Full Songwriters Roundtable: Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Dua Lipa, Cynthia Erivo & More

songs, I thought, oh my gosh, we could have these amazing young female

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for young women to see all this representation. I think it's very key and that's how we achieved it and John and I so we came back. I saw that when I received the invitation I thought: "I want to learn from all of you." This is what it is. I love what you said. about the diary and about bringing women together, especially you've been a voice for your generation, so deeply but I think people want to read your diary but they also want to read your diary yes they do want to read and it turns out it's like maybe the same thing same is like oh snap are you connected? you have like a lyric that I feel is so personal that you think they won't like it if I change it, they're not going to understand it and then they understand it in an internal way, they see you, what I was going to say was when you were talking about almost manifesting your own life in the song.

Does anyone else feel like when you write you're almost manifesting things that are about to happen, completely like when you're about to write something and you say you should? I'm putting this into a song because I'm saying this a lot, is this a self-fulfilling prophecy exactly? I feel that, I feel like I look back at the songs I relate to now

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than I ever wrote them. I don't, and some songs take on completely new meanings. I think it's evidence that songs come from the Divine and that sometimes they know things that we don't know. It's true that sometimes we call it M as if we were a container.

I have something for you. today I love what you said about loving writing for movies and for me I mean, I think I've only been doing it for two or three years and it's a couple of songs here and there and I really enjoy it because usually in the thing and having I have to write about what I was in, so there is a strange kind of double vision through which I have to see and then I have to filter what I have experienced, what is in the thing at this singular moment. for people to listen to me, but it feels like I'm exposing everything I've already been through in the project I've been through, so it feels like my heart is beating on the outside of my chest, you're like naked, yeah , but I love, I love that the task is that and therefore there is no choice but to do that and the only way to do it for people to connect is to be as naked and vulnerable as possible.

I know, I think so. Don't give yourself enough credit for being as vulnerable as you are, and just because your process is different from someone else's doesn't mean it's not a process you'll still understand if it takes you a year to get to the album you want. I want to get there it takes you a year to get to the album it doesn't mean it's over it just means you're taking your time it's like recharging a battery you know that's how it's a therapist so wise that just I also love writing for movies, yeah I love them challenges, I love challenges because you don't know what you're going to find and I love something like, I don't know if you're going to like it.

I love it and I don't guarantee, you know, I don't know what it is, I don't know, I think for me, I've realized that my whole life is an act of service. I feel

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purpose when I can serve something or someone. So whether it's as an artistic artist or a project, I like being there to do and being a part of something and knowing that I have to like being there, it's such a beautiful thing, I mean, you've been a part of so many songs that have a list of some of the artists, let's take a look Justin sea Selena Gomez Bry Spears Lady Gaga Ed Sharon John Legend Shawn Mendes Kelly CL March 5 rose Casey mus Graves Shira Irv Dy side HR Marin Morris Gwenn Stefani Nick Jonas gon Shay One Republic Kelsey ballerini Lincoln Park Ben plat 5 Seconds of Summer Fifth Harmony Hy steinfield Sabrina Carpenter okay Little Mix Zed R o the frey and also aifa working together everyone and not even everyone so not even my OBS I like why Is that why you find it difficult to listen to?

I do not know, I like it. I think I'm so used to being in the background that I like it when someone wants to go to a therapist. I don't know, I really like it. It scares me I said this to another artist I said this or not artist before but I love I love what I do It's very important to you We believe that you are very important so that you can sit in the power of being able to make other people's dreams come true too, that's a really special thing, I know, I know, but it's a really special, singular talent that you have that you do yourself and the work that you've done, it's not doing you any favors to just sit on it. that's your job I'm horrible at like I'm your anything I'm like I want to be like I just want to be like a turtle but you deserve it all if you didn't work for it it wouldn't come to you you deserve it it's not that you didn't do the work you did it all you feel bad for having talent oh my god not only I don't know I just like it I like it I said like it's a great act of service I'm not good with the people I like I just want to be there for the people but you're good because with people are but I think we assume that we get along well I don't think it's very important because I think We think that active service does not include it, it does not include recognizing the work that we have done and that that is also an act of service because if another young woman is looking at you, you take ownership of the things that you. what you've done, you're telling her that it's okay to take ownership of the things she's done well, i.e. speaking in my throat, you know, I know I like it and it's important, I think we don't like it, I think we don't like it. likes to drink That in mind it is important for other people to see us because we women don't do it enough to say yes, I did that and I am very proud of that because another young woman is going to look at you and it will be fine if she is okay with doing it.

If I agree with then I'm okay with saying that I did it, that I'm very proud of it, it's an act of service and it's also not arrogance to say that I'm very proud of the work. I have done it and you have done it and you have all the thanks and then some thanks yes, you are good, you are very good, okay, who else? Olivia The Hunger Games, so you deserve it all. You are the best, so are we. You're just about done so we're going to ask some quick and fun questions so what's your wannabe karaoke song Spice Girl oh that's cool no we don't need another hero.

Dancing Queen by Tina M, ABA, that's a good one. well i hate singing karaoke so yeah my friends kind of hate it it's all a bit weird but i make changes with tup park oh yeah that was at the barber shop the other day wow Lose Yourself nice Well, when it came out. the Academy Awards a couple of years ago and I did it was great, yeah, what about you? I've never done K what and you looked at me like I didn't like singing, she was waiting for the rest of the sentence, the way you said it anyway Not like that, I've never done it, not even at home, and like the fake M like the one you already know.

She had a karaoke speaker type box when she was a kid, when she was six and had We Are Family. and I was singing karaoke that and I had what's that synchronized song is G to be I don't know if it was that I think it was probably it will be me um it was that and that and and also um I Hope You Dance is a great song Hope You Dance is good, what it's like one of my or Le um W no, I think so, I hope we're not wrong, but um, but I Hope You Dance We Are Family We are family was like the main karaoke one complete, but I've never done anything like that. standing on a stage right, we should do that on the way out how intimidating to walk into karaoke and it's Billy and I feel like you haven't heard enough fun.

I don't know, I was at a party and they had karaoke and they were like, Billy, you should do it. I thought you don't need me, it's never fun if the person can actually sing, which I tend to be like. We'll see what happens with the dream collaboration, oh everyone here, yeah, come on, right here, oh yeah, super song. We Are, we pretended we were on a late night TV show and they asked me to think of something and John was playing. and I looked and I was like can you, can you do this, yes, yes, I can do this and I just loved that moment so I hope I want to do it again and you, I'm constantly chasing you like everyone's amazing. let me know I remember the first time I heard you sing on Broadway my whole family oh my god oh oh that's crazy yeah that's the Holy Spirit oh my god hey okay I'm derailing the question no no it's true because even Even though things aren't about awards, I mean, this woman won an Emmy Tony and a Grammy for the amazing work on the color purple, it's like you bleed purple, like it's a gift that keeps on giving, but it's your performance that has allowed you to do that. because you just killed it thank you, thank you, really grateful for all of you coming together.

I mean, this is such a cool table, we have to do this again, man, but cheers to everyone here, amazing

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, oh my god, with water, I'm really not sure what. life is fine, it's clear, it's fine, it's fine, say well, I don't know about you, but I love seeing so many talented women and a man come together in a beautiful, harmonious conversation until the next time it's an orgy with Evon and This is off script. The Hollywood Reporter