'Dreams come true' for singer joining Lady Gaga on Devil Wears Prada soundtrack

'Dreams come true' for singer joining Lady Gaga on Devil Wears Prada soundtrack11 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleJasmine SandharandNaomi de Souza,BBC Newsbeat Getty ImagesIzzy Escobar says being asked to create a song for the Devil Wears Prada 2 soundtrack was incredibleStrike a pose! Devil Wears Prada 2 is out in cinemas, reuniting the film's original cast 20 years on.But something that has people talking almost as much as the return of Miranda Priestly's abrupt one-liners is the film's female-led soundtrack.Lady Gaga, Dua Lipa and Olivia Dean - to name just a few - all feature on the album, alongside up-and-coming artists like Izzy Escobar."This is my first time ever having a song in a major film," the American singer tells BBC Newsbeat.Escobar wrote and performed Evergreen Avenue for the soundtrack to "one of my favourite movies"."I'm still trying to wrap my head around it," she says."Dreams do come true."She says it was a "pinch me" moment seeing her name next to the likes of Lady Gaga - something she says feels like a sign she should "keep persevering".Getty ImagesThe film's sequel sees the original cast reprise their roles Escobar specifically wrote Evergreen Avenue after the film's director, David Frankel, got in touch.But while it was the first time her music has appeared in a film, she says the writing process wasn't too different to how she normally works."I'm a very visual writer in the way that I story tell," she says."I close my eyes when I sit down on my keys and make up a movie in my own mind."Escobar says Frankel asked her to work on the film after hearing her 2025 song, Sunny in London."He really loved the sonic palette of the song and wanted me to write something that was in a similar vein," she says."I did my research and then started to kind of brainstorm what those ideas could be and how...