Could Billie Eilish’s ‘What Was I Made For?’ Be the First Dual Winner of Grammys’ Top Honor and the Best Song Oscar Since ‘My Heart Will Go On’?
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic There aren’t a lot of precedents in pop music for the pairing of Billie Eilish and Finneas, when it comes to brother-and-sister performing or songwriting duos.
But in the world of music for films, it might not be too soon to start considering a comparison with a very famous married duo: Alan and Marilyn Bergman, the long-reigning king and queen of movie theme songs.
The Bergmans weren’t a fully self-contained songwriting unit; they primarily worked as lyricists, joining up with outside composers like Michel Legrand or Marvin Hamlisch on Oscar-winning material like “The Windmills of Your Mind,” “The Way We Were” and the song score of “Yentl.” But it’s their names that are synonymous with film songs like few others’.
Could it be that the O’Connells are following in their footsteps? It’s much too soon to tell, with only a handful of movie songs to cite in their still-nascent careers (including lesser-noted contributions to “Roma” and Pixar’s boy-band comedy “Turning Red”).
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