{"id":80597,"date":"2022-09-28T11:31:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T11:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/aqua-doesnt-mind-that-barbie-girl-isnt-in-the-barbie-movie\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T11:31:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T11:31:12","slug":"aqua-doesnt-mind-that-barbie-girl-isnt-in-the-barbie-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/aqua-doesnt-mind-that-barbie-girl-isnt-in-the-barbie-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Aqua doesn’t mind that “Barbie Girl” isn’t in the Barbie movie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Not every Barbie Girl, it turns out, lives in a Barbie World\u2014but Aqua, the band behind the 1997 bubblegum pop anthem, is perfectly cool with that. In an interview with variety<\/em><\/span> ahead of the 25th anniversary of \u201cBarbie Girl,\u201d the band discussed the other very indie, very under-the-radar Barbie<\/em> project in the works right now: the 2023 film from Greta Gerwig. Although many fans were crestfallen at the revelation that \u201cBarbie Girl\u201d wouldn’t be a part of the Barbie<\/em> soundtrack, Aqua isn’t bothered in the slightest. <\/p>\n

\u201cI totally understand why they didn’t use it,\u201d lead singer Lene Nystr\u00f8m shares, \u201cbut it’s going to bring us a lot of attention, no matter what.\u201d<\/p>\n

For her own part, Nystr\u00f8m thinks Gerwig passed on \u201cBarbie Girl\u201d for oversaturation reasons\u2014using the track could’ve been too obvious, or as Nystr\u00f8m puts it, \u201ccheese on cheese.\u201d S\u00f8ren Rasted sees the whole thing as more comical than anything, joking: \u201cWe should say we turned it down. Ryan Gosling is not good enough!\u201d<\/p>\n

If anything, Aqua’s members are proud of their track’s longevity in the cultural conscience, especially since they initially only sought to make a \u201cfun song.\u201d \u201cWe had the line, ‘C’mon Barbie, let’s go party,’ and thought it was great,\u201d Rasted reveals. \u201c[…]We didn’t put that much thought into it. The hook just worked really, really well.\u201d<\/p>\n