That enabled the song to debut on the Hot 100 all the way up at No. 7 (coincidentally, the same No. 7 peak where “Barbie World” debuted this year), but MCA issued a deliberately low number of singles to force most consumers hankering for “Barbie” to purchase the full-length Aqua CD instead. Anaconda is a(n) pop song recorded by Nicki Minaj (Onika Tanya Maraj) for the album The Pinkprint (International Deluxe Explicit) that was released in 2014.
label MCA pulled off this trick through chart gamesmanship: At the height of the music business’s Great War Against the Single, MCA pumped up airplay for “Barbie Girl” on terrestrial radio for weeks before issuing a retail single. Performed by David Williams.Lyrics added for. It topped charts in more than a dozen countries, including the U.K., where Aqua scored two No. 1 follow-ups: the moodier “ Turn Back Time” and the Indiana Jones–inspired “ Doctor Jones.” In America, where the Scandinavian pop band was essentially a one-hit wonder, “Barbie Girl” powered Aqua’s debut album Aquarium to triple-platinum sales all by itself. Directed by Bernard DerrimanAnimated by Andrew Collins, Lily Dell and Ian Harrowell. Loathed by rock fans-a 2011 Rolling Stone readers’ poll ranked it the worst song of the ’90s-“Barbie Girl” was, with the rest of America and much of the world, extremely popular. Quirkier still is Billie Eilish’s watery, heartsick “ What Was I Made For?,” which speaks to the movie’s existential plot while giving Eilish a chance to play the saddest-ever game of dress-up.
Sam Smith’s “ Man I Am” applies their recent shift toward high-camp art pop to the Ken character with a very 2023 gender-nonconforming twist. Latin superstar Karol G’s reggaetón jam “ Watati,” named after featured artist Aldo Ranks’ favorite nonsensical exclamation, aligns Barbie’s beachy vibe with a dembow beat. From there, the tracks have gotten quirkier and more eclectic.
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The soundtrack campaign kicked off with its most normie single: Neo-disco hitmaker Dua Lipa’s frothy “ Dance the Night” was released back in May, has already cracked the Top 30 on Billboard’s Hot 100, and is a solid pop-radio hit.
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And like the Greta Gerwig–helmed film-an unusual but inspired match of director and movie franchise-the artists turning in soundtrack songs are many flavors of oddball. As Barbie the movie finally arrives in theaters, Barbie: The Album, its soundtrack LP, lands with similar cultural conquest in mind.
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