Dua Lipa and Billie Eilish are not likely to have karaoke performances for their fans to enjoy anytime soon.
The iconic performers, along with fellow singer-songwriters Olivia Rodrigo, Cynthia Erivo, Julia Michaels, and Jon Batiste, were asked what their favorite karaoke song was during a roundtable discussion on Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter.
The first person to respond was Michaels, 30. "'Wanna Be,' Spice Girls," she blurted out.
Then, 36-year-old Erivo revealed that "We Don't Need Another Hero" by Tina Turner was her fave.
"Mine is 'Dancing Queen,' Abba," Rodrigo, 20, continued, "It's a great song, everyone says,"
Lipa, 28, then admitted, "I hate singing at karaoke... my friends hate it. So it's all a bit weird. But I do 'Changes' by Tupac."
Eminem's "Lose Yourself" is Batiste's choice. During Eilish's turn, she disclosed that she had "never done karaoke."
The 22-year-old "TV" singer admitted, "I don't like to sing," adding that the only place she'd ever done it was in a "karaoke box" as a child.
"I'm just like, 'Haven't you heard enough of me singing onstage?' I don't know, like I was at a party and they had karaoke and they were like, 'Billie you should do it.' And I was like, you don't need me to do that.'"
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In another section of the interview, Lipa discussed the creative process behind her Grammy-nominated smash song from the Barbie album, "Dance the Night."
The vocalist of "Houdini" clarified that, despite being on tour at the time she initially heard from soundtrack producer Mark Ronson, completing the collaboration was "an absolute no-brainer."
The Grammy winner found time to fly to New York City so she could visit the studio and discuss her idea with 40-year-old director Greta Gerwig.
"Greta was saying how inspired by disco she was," Lipa explained. "I just thought about disco and the community it brings, and the way it brings people together. It was always a genre of music that was such a release when things weren't going well in the world."
"And so, 'Dance the Night' was created specifically for Barbie's best day ever, which then results in her thinking about death," the "Levitating" singer went on.
Therefore, the main focus is on those dualities of existence and how to combine them. Before creating "What Was I Made For?" with her brother and colleague Finneas-which was also for Barbie-Eilish talked candidly about her creative challenges.
"I honestly was concerned that it was over for me," she said. "We'd been trying and it wasn't doing what it usually would do in me. I was honestly like, 'Damn, maybe I hit my peak and I don't know how to write anymore?'"
However, everything changed when writer-director Gerwig called her in January and asked if she might compose a song for the Barbie soundtrack.
"Greta saved me, really, honestly," the pop star told the outlet. "It brought us out of it and immediately we were inspired and wrote so much more after that."
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