Barbie: How did Lizzo make music that ended up at the beginning of the film?

One of the main songs from the original soundtrack of Barbiefilm released on July 20, 2023 in Brazilian theaters, “pink” appears in one of the first scenes of the production directed by Greta Gerwig – and is responsible for introducing some aspects of the barbieland.

sung by lizzothe song was written by Mark Ronson, Ricky Reed, Andrew Wyatt, Eric Frederic It is Melissa Jefferson. During an interview with indiewire, gerwig exalted the music and its importance to the narrative of Barbieas well as remembering the creative process.

“When lizzo came out, she basically wrote and riffed on what [Mark Ronson e Andrew Wyatt] they had written as a basis,” he stated. “She knew exactly what was funny [no filme]and what she did with the lyrics was the same kind of humor that we did.”

When she was literally singing what you’re seeing on screen, it was so profoundly funny and suddenly, as a result, it just seemed like everything clicked into place.

Furthermore, nick houyresponsible for editing Barbiecommented how the music of lizzo “suddenly changed the way people viewed the beginning,” as well as resolving “all the problems we were having, which weren’t crazy, but I remember everyone suddenly understood the tone of the film immediately in a way that they hadn’t before.”

Already in an interview with NME, Mark Ronson reminisced how Greta Gerwig was instantly impressed with “pink” – and even showed to Margot Robbie on call because she was so excited about the result.

At another point, the producer spoke about the soundtrack: “What I learned very, very quickly doing the soundtrack for Barbie is that you are always serving the image. You are always serving the emotion.”

You need to turn off all the stuff you’ve known about pop, rock and soul for the past 30 years. Yes, it needs to be pretty, but sometimes you just have to get the hell out of the way.