Rob Thomas throughout his Front as well as Center performance collection efficiency at Iridium in New York City. Harry Sandler
Warning: This message has looters to Barbie, particularly in relation to its funny scene including Ryan Gosling’s Ken covering “Push” by Matchbox Twenty. Which, incidentally, Rob Thomas assumes is funny.
In a current meeting, the vocalist remembered simply exactly how atrioventricular bundle’s 1997 struck not just entered into the movie, however became among Barbie‘s biggest musical moments — toward the storyline’s orgasm, Ken takes a seat Margot Robbie’s Barbie before a campfire as well as tries to thrill her with his guitar-playing abilities, vocal singing “Push” for numerous hrs directly. This all follows Gosling’s personality, really feeling ridiculed by Barbie’s uninterest in him, has actually encouraged the various other Kens to welcome perfects of patriarchy as well as harmful maleness — such as cornering ladies as well as anticipating them to praise the males’s sub-par acoustic efficiencies of ’90s great man songs as well as award them with enchanting or sex-related supports, for example.
“I want to preface this by saying that I thought it was hilarious,” Thomas informed USA Today in a Sunday (July 23) meeting. “But in Bring It On, [Kirsten Dunst’s character] has this douchey boyfriend. And there’s a scene where he was in his dorm room with a Matchbox Twenty poster in the background. There was a whole period during the ‘90s where the more successful we got, the bigger target we were. We were an easy takedown.”
“When I got the call for Barbie, they told me, ‘Ken’s by the fireside, he’s playing the song and it’s his favorite band.’ So I did this thinking I’d be the butt of the joke, and I was fine with that. I’m pretty thick-skinned. But Julie Greenwald [from Atlantic Records] came to the Hollywood Bowl a month or two ago. She had just seen the movie and was like, ‘You come out of it loving Ken and loving ‘Push.’’ And I was like, ‘Aww. All right, really good!’”
The movie’s therapy of “Push” — which covered the Alternative Airplay graph in July 1997 — really felt also much better thinking about that Barbie supervisor Greta Gerwig has actually been, as Thomas placed it, “one of my crushes forever.” “The fact that it didn’t diminish my crush of Greta, that’s even better,” Thomas informed the paper.
Gerwig herself likewise discussed her choice to limelight Matchbox Twenty’s songs, disclosing she’s been a follower of “Push” because youth. “Growing up, I loved that song,” she stated. “I was like, ‘This is my rock n’ roll, Dad. Enjoy The Who, but these are my guys.’ And it wasn’t until college that I actually thought, ‘What is that song about?’”
The Barbie soundtrack likewise showcases lots of various other tracks, much of which are originals provided by Billie Eilish, Lizzo, Dua Lipa, Ice Spice, Nicki Minaj as well as much more. Plus, the Indigo Girls’ “Closer to Fine” is included as Barbie’s favored car-ride song.
Another dude-rock band promoted by the Kens throughout their requisition is Pavement, with one Ken man-splaining the team’s impact as well as connections to the Velvet Underground to an indifferent Barbie. Pavement reacted to the namedrop on Instagram Stories, creating that “as a rule we are pro-Greta” as well as joking, “Not a sponsored post but CAN BE @barbiethemovie just DM us for Venmo.”
