Barbie Musician Doll and Playset

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I was so inspired by this script," Ronson says. "I love the whole message of it, I love the whole idea of it. Obviously, Barbie's story is so wonderful." No, and I think you’ll see why if you see the film. It starts kitsch, because it’s obviously setting up this world, and it’s very like “Barbie’s perfect day,” but so much of the movie is beautiful and deep and offers so many existential questions about life. And that’s where I saw some parallels to like things like “The Truman Show.” It’s poignant but it’s still light. And scoring a film, you watch certain scenes ad nauseam —I’ve seen Margot Robbie break up into tears like a million times, and every time she gets me, Ryan too. There’s something about these performances, this balance of comic and pathos. It’s just wonderful the whole way along.

Grammy-winner Dua Lipa, the voice behind Barbie The Album lead single “Dance the Night,” graces the pink carpet in a sheer custom Versace gown. Lipa will be portraying multiple Mermaid Barbies in the film. Because Andrew sang on the demo and he has such an amazing range, I thought, OK, let me make this a little bit easier for Ryan — lower it a key or two. As Ryan started to warm up, I was like, OK, we could kind of bump this up another key. Oh, now we can bump it [to] the original key — he's just giving this wonderful vocal performance. And also, because he's such an incredible actor, he's imbuing all these words with a different context and emotion than what Andrew and I had even been able to to add to it. It felt like he was inhabiting the song, which is really wonderful.Mark Ronson, Kevin Weaver and Brandon Davis attend the Barbie premiere. (Eric Charbonneau) Eric Charbonneau I brought in [songwriter-producer] Andrew Wyatt, who’s one of my favorite collaborators, to help finish it. And when they started to edit the film, they were like, “This two-minute song actually needs to be drawn out for a seven-minute sequence, so can you essentially score it, and make sections and breakdowns?” If we’d just looped sections of the song it would have been really boring and uninspiring. So we just started to play around and we essentially scored this seven-minute battle scene around the song. And then they gave us the opening credits, and we slowly ended up writing more and more music until a couple of months ago they were just like, “You’re scoring the film.” The movie is kind of kitsch personified — it’s not like the vibe of your “Late Night Feelings” album and some of the more serious things you’ve done. Was that a challenging transition to make? Atlantic Records began work on the album years ago, long before filming started. “We really like to get into things early, so we could be a part of the DNA of what the music becomes,” Weaver explained. That way, they are part of the conversation from the beginning, which makes it easier to find the right names and sonic direction and move forward. MORE FROM FORBES Britney Spears Is Returning To Music With The Help Of Some Powerful Friends By Hugh McIntyre Kevin Parker of Tame Impala attends the world Premiere of Barbie in a light blue Versace set. Barbie The Album is set to feature a new original Tame Impala song titled “Journey to the Real World.”

The logline attached to the full Barbie trailer lays out an intriguing path for Ken, Barbie’s eternal boyfriend: “To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you’re a Ken.” So, then, what is Barbie about? My hope is that actually watching the plot play out will only heighten the debate. The film’s IMDb logline encourages that possibility: “Barbie suffers a crisis that leads her to question her world and her existence.” If Barbie’s questioning herself, why would we not want to do the same? And that's what's so great about a lot of the songs that people wrote, because they seem so bespoke," Ronson says. "It was just so wonderful to see how every artist took what they saw, took the conversation with Greta, and everyone ran with it and did something different."Barbie The Album executive producer Mark Ronson and award-winning actress Grace Gummer attend the world premiere of Barbie. Coaxing great ideas out of pop stars is familiar territory for Ronson, but his instrumental score for the film, co-composed with Wyatt, was his first such project — and he admits that making it work meant stifling some of his usual instincts.