The summer season of Barbie is getting its personal soundtrack. When the extremely anticipated “Barbie” film hits theaters on July 21, followers may even be capable to blast “Barbie: The Album.” On Might 25, Atlantic Information introduced information of the album, which might be launched the identical day because the movie, additionally sharing among the all-star artists who’re featured, together with Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice, Haim, Lizzo, Okay-pop group Fifty Fifty, and — maybe most curiously — Ryan Gosling, who performs Ken within the film. These artists be part of pop star Dua Lipa (who performs a mermaid Barbie within the film). Her “Barbie” music, “Dance the Night,” dropped on Might 26 with a vibrant, disco-themed music video. Then, on June 2, Karol G launched her “Barbie” observe, “WATATI,” that includes Aldo Ranks, and on June 9, PinkPantheress launched her contribution to the soundtrack, titled “Angel.”
On June 23, Minaj and Ice Spice’s observe, “Barbie World,” was launched alongside enjoyable, Barbie Dreamhouse-set visuals. The observe samples maybe essentially the most iconic Barbie music: Aqua’s 1997 hit, “Barbie Girl.” And on June 30, Charli XCX launched her “Barbie” observe, “Speed Drive.”
Then, on July 6, Billie Eilish made the shock announcement that she has a music on the soundtrack, too, titled, “What Was I Made For?” She wrote on Instagram, “WE MADE THIS SONG FOR BARBIE AND IT MEANS THE ABSOLUTE WORRRRLLLD TO ME. THIS MOVIE IS GONNA CHANGE UR LIVES AND HOPEFULLY THE SONG WILL TOO. GET READY TO SOB.” She then launched the tragic music and video on July 13. In it, Eilish — carrying a yellow gown and sporting a Barbie ponytail — pulls doll-size variations of a few of her personal most iconic outfits and solemnly tries to suit all of them on a doll clothes rack, regardless of wind after which rain.
On July 10, the ultimate particular celeb artist on the soundtrack was revealed to be Sam Smith. Their observe is titled “Man I Am,” and is from the attitude of Ken, Smith mentioned on Instagram. Wrote Smith, “I cannot begin to express how incredibly excited I am to be a part of the soundtrack to this already iconic film. I was invited by the incredible @iammarkronson and Greta Gerwig to write a song from the perspective of Ken for one of the scenes and we honestly had so much fun with this. I cannot wait for you to hear what we’ve created together .” The music might be launched alongside the movie on July 21.
This week, soundtrack producer Mark Ronson additionally revealed whereas chatting with Variety on the Los Angeles premiere of “Barbie” on July 9 that Weapons N’ Roses guitarist Slash is on Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken” music. “We hadn’t met before, we just went into the studio and talked about music,” Ronson mentioned of Gosling. “As he started to get warmed up, I was like, ‘Oh my god, this guy is gonna murder this song.’ And of course, he would. He’s Ken. Who would understand this song better than him.”
“Obviously, we worked on it for about a year after he did the vocals, so when I finally sent him the finished version with Slash on it and everybody a couple weeks ago, he was just really psyched and satisfied with it,” Ronson added.
Followers can preorder the “Barbie” album on its web site proper now, together with a number of special-edition vinyls and cassette tapes. A lot of the album covers function Margot Robbie as Barbie, lounging in her iconic bathing go well with and sun shades. The album has its personal Instagram web page as properly, the place excited followers will in all probability get much more sneak peeks earlier than its launch.
The “Barbie” film stars Robbie as Barbie and Gosling as Ken — plus an entire slate of different Barbies and Kens. The sprawling solid consists of Issa Rae, Simu Liu, Helen Mirren, Nicola Coughlan, and plenty of extra. Forward, here is what we find out about “Barbie: The Album.”
