{"id":9147,"date":"2023-12-17T04:49:45","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T09:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/billie-eilish-delivers-emotional-barbie-tribute-with-her-snl-performance-of-what-was-i-made-for\/17\/12\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-12-17T04:49:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T09:49:45","slug":"billie-eilish-delivers-emotional-barbie-tribute-with-her-snl-performance-of-what-was-i-made-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/billie-eilish-delivers-emotional-barbie-tribute-with-her-snl-performance-of-what-was-i-made-for\/17\/12\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Eilish Delivers Emotional &#8216;Barbie&#8217; Tribute With Her &#8216;SNL&#8217; Performance of &#8216;What Was I Made For?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/billie-eilish\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Billie Eilish<\/a><span> made her return to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/tv\/saturday-night-live\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/a><span> for the third time as the show&#8217;s musical guest over the weekend, which provided the perfect opportunity for a mini <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/movies\/barbie\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Barbie<\/em><\/a><span> reunion, of sorts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Host <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/kate-mckinnon\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Kate McKinnon<\/a><span> &#8212; who plays\u00a0Weird Barbie in the film &#8212; was joined by <\/span><em><span>Barbie<\/span><\/em><span> director <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/greta-gerwig\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Greta Gerwig<\/a><span> in a surprise cameo, and together the pair introduced <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/kate-mckinnon-hosts-festive-christmas-saturday-night-live-with-help-from-kristen-wiig-and-maya\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Eilish&#8217;s first performance of the night<\/a><span>, in which she sang <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/media\/videos\/billie-eilish-transforms-into-vintage-barbie-for-what-was-i-made-for-music-video\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">her tune &#8220;What Was I Made For?&#8221;<\/a><span> from the Barbie soundtrack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For her performance, Eilish paid tribute to the emotional scene in which her song appears in the film, as a montage of old family photos and videos of female <\/span><em><span>SNL<\/span><\/em><span> castmembers played on the screens behind her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Eilish is nominated for six GRAMMY Awards this year, with five of those nominations for &#8220;What Was I Made For?&#8221; including\u00a0Record Of The Year, Best Song Written For Visual Media, Best Pop Solo\u00a0 Performance, Best Music Video and Song Of The Year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Later in the episode, Eilish honored the Christmas spirit with a beautiful, stirring performance of &#8220;Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,&#8221; accompanied by brother FINNEAS on the piano.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/tv\/saturday-night-live\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/a><span>\u00a0airs live, coast-to-coast, at 11:30 p.m. ET\/8:30 p.m. PT on NBC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>RELATED CONTENT:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>RELATED CONTENT:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/billie-eilish-delivers-emotional-barbie-tribute-with-her-snl-performance-of-what-was-i-made-for\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billie Eilish made her return to Saturday Night Live for the third time as the show&rsquo;s musical guest over the weekend, which<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/billie-eilish-delivers-emotional-barbie-tribute-with-her-snl-performance-of-what-was-i-made-for\/17\/12\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}