Allison Williams and Ebon Moss-Bachrach revealed that some of the songs they performed together as Marnie and Desi on Girls were Kelly Clarkson rejects written by Jack Antonoff . The two actors revealed this piece of deep trivia in a new video for Vanity Fair , in which they reunited and reminisced about their time on the show together. Moss-Bachrach joined Girls in Season Three, with his character Desi striking a romantic and musical relationship with Williams’ Marnie; over the next three seasons though, their relationship and marriage fell apart, alongside their musical dreams.
While Marnie and Desi played a whole bunch of songs together during those three seasons, Moss-Bachrach said he only just learned that most of their tunes “were just discards from Kelly Clarkson.” Williams confirmed this and singled-out one of the tracks, “Breathless,” which Antonoff reportedly wrote for Clarkson, and which Marnie and Desi ended up performing in Season Four, Episode One of Girls . “I like that song,” Moss-Bacharach mused, while Williams added: “It’s a great song, she should’ve done it! But we got it, as a result.
” (Antonoff and Girls star/creator Lena Dunham dated for most of the show’s run.) “Breathless” likely represented the high point of Marnie and Desi’s oeuvre, with Williams noting that the songs they performed together frequently struck a balance between “really beautiful” music and super “ cringey” lyrics . She specifically highlighted “.
