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“Do you guys ever take into consideration dying?” asks Barbie. Within the trailer for Greta Gerwig’s forthcoming blockbuster, the all-too-familiar blonde bombshell (performed by Margot Robbie) says this line in the course of a dance ground and the entire dolls flip round in shock. Dying? On the dance ground?!
Such is the crux of the film’s plot, the concept a toy like Barbie — the mass-produced miniature embodiment of America’s female preferrred for, what, what number of many years now? — could be altering, considering extra existential horrors in her newly animated rubber mind. That is an alien mode of considering in Barbie world, the place each second is just ever fizzy, enjoyable and extremely accessorized. What extra might you ask for?
And who higher than to seize what that world may sound like than Dua Lipa, our early quarantine pop savior, within the large single “Dance the Night time” from the film’s forthcoming authentic soundtrack. “My hеart could possibly be burnin’, however you will not see it on my face,” she sings, on a glittery disco-pop quantity that falls neatly in keeping with her former discography and up to date, peppy genre-reviving friends Lizzo and Jessie Ware. “I will nonetheless preserve the celebration runnin’, not one hair misplaced.” It is acquainted, however undeniably glamorous, whether or not you are 6 years outdated or 30. And it is a music that definitely would not soundtrack a single tear falling on a dance ground, as a result of, lady, we do not produce tears right here in Barbie world. Do not you neglect it.
