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From Barbz to Barbie. Nicki Minaj paid tribute to the doll that inspired her ain aesthetic, teaming up with Ice Spice for “Barbie World,” the newest chopped from the star-studded soundtrack to the Greta Gerwig-directed, Margot Robbie-starring movie astir the iconic doll. In “Barbie World,” a opus sampling Aqua’s “Barbie World” (check retired our exclusive interrogation with them here), Nicki and Ice Spice loop retired a bubbly popular rap with each the pinkish Barbie vibes. Its irresistible bushed is simply a cleanable lucifer for Barbie and her Barbie World, arsenic devastatingly chic arsenic it is adorably summer-ready.
The video features clips of the film, including Ryan Gosling, who plays Ken, playfully flexing his muscles, Barbie (Margot Robbie) and pals dancing successful beforehand of her Barbie Dream House, a veritable integrative doll flash mob connected the beach, and Barbie and Ken happily flipping implicit successful her pinkish Barbie Corvette. “And I’m built similar a Barbie / I’m a doll but I inactive wanna party,” they sassily rap. Fans are besides treated to crystal Spice successful a abbreviated flipped pinkish wig, Nicki connected a pinkish pitchy ski, and sexy antheral inheritance dancers performing connected Barbie’s pinkish outdoor checkerboard.
‘Barbie World’ by Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice is acceptable to merchandise successful 1h 30m.
It is expected to beryllium the biggest soundtrack azygous from a movie since Rihanna’s ‘Lift Me Up’ from “The Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”#Barbie #BarbieTheMovie
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— Rap Charts: Pink (@rapchartspink) June 23, 2023
The Barbie soundtrack contains songs by Charli XCX (“Speed Drive”), Dua Lipa (“Dance The Night”), Haim (“Home”), Ryan Gosling (“I’m Just Ken”), The Kid Laroi (“Forever & Again”), Ava Max (“Choose Your Fighter,” an oddly ironic rubric considering her caller attack), and more. The soundtrack volition driblet connected July 21, the aforesaid time the Barbie movie is released successful theatres.
Nicki Minaj (Shutterstock)
Before the release, Nicki Minaj came nether occurrence erstwhile a rapper named Problem (b. Jason Martin) accused Nicki of stealing Saweetie’s idea to illustration Aqua’s “Barbie Girl” for a rap opus for the Barbie soundtrack. Jason alleged that Saweetie’s instrumentality connected the 1997 deed would person been called “Icy Girl” and that Saweetie sent it implicit to Nicki for a imaginable team-up. Now, if Saweetie don’t wanna trip, that’s connected her,” helium said, per Vibe, “But we crafted a grounds that was sent implicit to Nicki to hop connected to taxable to the Barbie soundtrack.”
Ice Spice (Shutterstock)
“[Nicki] said she was gonna bash it. Then each of a sudden, a caller mentation was created. Yes, it’s a sample, you tin bash what you want. But …. you can’t perceive 1 thing, accidental you’re gonna bash this, past spell bash your version. It ain’t happening similar that — Anybody that’s successful this concern knows that that’s not however this works,” helium said. He would besides spell connected Twitter to stock a clip of Saweetie performing “Icy Girl.”
“As a writer connected this, I tin corroborate this opus and thought was sent to her past twelvemonth to taxable for the Barbie movie,” Martin tweeted. “It’s bittersweet to spot that the archetypal creator has been pushed disconnected a opus that was her thought and was meant for some of them. I person nary broadside successful this, but I volition beryllium compensated.”
“If oregon erstwhile I request to item the full mode it went down successful regards to this Barbie sh-t, you volition recognize wherefore each writers request to beryllium compensated with time rates and contracts protecting their intelligence properties the time of,” helium added. “Hopefully, this gets sorted retired quietly. But please, no, I don’t scare easy.”
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