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The Making of ‘Birds of a Feather’: How Billie Eilish and Finneas Labored Nearly a Year on Their ‘Outlier’ Track, Then Let the Audience Discover It
Finneas tells how he and Billie Eilish labored nearly a year in crafting their biggest hit to date, but had patience to let the audience embrace it.
But one track, “Birds of a Feather,” did find Eilish basking in something very close to sunlight, with its pretty, percolating feel and nearly out-of-character romantic optimism. But it’s the feather-light touch of “Bird” that stuck around longest and became her biggest hit to date, as well as landing Grammy nods for record and song of the year and pop solo performance. Andrew Marshall, Eilish’s career-long touring drummer, makes one of his first recorded appearances on the track, but he doesn’t completely crowd out the electronics.
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