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The Treatment

Billie Eilish and Finneas, Benny Safdie, and Elvis Mitchell on the Treat

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Treatment, Elvis welcomes Grammy winners Billie Eilish and Finneas, who talk about their Grammy nominated song “What Was I Made For?” from the 2023 blockbuster film Barbie. Then actor and director Benny Safdie stops by to talk about his role in the Showtime series The Curse. And on The Treat, our own Elvis Mitchell talks about some unconventional Christmas favorites.

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0:00.0

From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

0:14.3

It's The Treatment.

0:15.4

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

0:16.7

If I took the time to go for all the accolades that Billy Irish and Phineas have, we'd be out of time.

0:22.5

So instead, we'll just go straight to the interview and talk about their newest piece to be nominated for Grammys.

0:28.9

The song is from the soundtrack for Barbie.

0:31.2

We had Grida Gourkeye here talking about that film.

0:33.4

And the song, what was I made for?

0:35.5

First of all, guys, thanks very much for being here.

0:41.5

Congratulations on the song of the year and record of the year and all the other Grammy nominations.

0:43.2

But let me throw this out.

0:45.0

I mean, there is a line of the song.

0:46.9

I don't know how to feel.

0:50.4

That for me is something that's communicated in so many of the songs you guys do together.

1:01.6

Well, thanks for all of that, first of all. I think that line just like speaks for itself and is like exactly what that whole song encapsulates. You know, we wrote the song about Barbie, obviously, and the whole idea is like, she physically

1:05.7

doesn't know how to feel and emotionally doesn't know how to feel, but then it's like such

1:10.2

a real metaphor for like,

1:12.9

you know, how we all kind of feel most of the time of like, I don't know how I feel about this.

1:17.6

Or I think it works in so many ways. I think it's like, I don't know what I'm supposed to feel

1:21.4

or I don't actually know how I feel in my life right now. I'm, you know, I think we all go

1:26.2

through like periods of,

1:28.5

like identity issues and crises and, you know, not even knowing what we feel and what, you know,

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