“It’s like, ‘Oh my God, they wear little sparkly dresses and push-up bras and then have a girl gang? That’s what I want!'”
The Spice Girls’ “girl power” movement in the ’90s inspired Margot Robbie’s “version of second-wave feminism.”Robbie and Ryan Gosling star as Barbie and Ken in the new “Barbie” moving opening Friday.
“I was like, ‘Greta, how are we going to incorporate this song? We can’t do a Barbie movie and not have a nod to Aqua’s ‘Barbie Girl.’ It has to be in there,’” Robbie. “And [Greta] was like, ‘Don’t worry, we’re going to find a cool way to incorporate it.’ “And then,” Robbie continued, “when she was like, ‘Guess who’s going to do the remix of Aqua’s ‘Barbie Girl’? Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice.’ I was like, ‘Together? Are you joking?!’ I just knew immediately that all my girlfriends were going to lose their minds.”
Another source of childhood inspo for the film’s soundtrack came from the 1960s in the form of the Beach Boys, who were “all [she] would listen to.” “I had watched a documentary about how the Beach Boys would have been even more popular if the Beatles hadn’t come along and stolen the limelight,” she said of the classic California group, whose “Fun, Fun, Fun”
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