Greta Gerwig isn’t the one beloved entity to be drawn into the Barbieverse by the magnetism of famous-doll IP. Mark Ronson oversees the undertaking, recruiting a “stylish, numerous roster” that features “artists whose identities weren’t totally represented by Mattel till around 2016, when in response to declining gross sales, the model began considering extra actively past leggy white ladies with massive tits,” as Cat Zhang notes in her barbed review. The total soundtrack lineup contains Tame Impala, Charli XCX, and Haim, alongside Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish, Lizzo, PinkPantheress, Nicki Minaj, and Ice Spice, amongst others. If nothing else, bask within the data that every one this may quickly be over. Till the next Mattel film.
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Ludwig Göransson: Oppenheimer (Authentic Movement Image Soundtrack) [Back Lot Music]
On the opposite finish of the frivolity spectrum, right here we have now film supercomposer (and longtime Childish Gambino collaborator) Ludwig Göransson together with his soundtrack to the movie that reckons with the man who made the atomic bomb, and asks whether or not that was a good suggestion. Göransson, who additionally soundtracked Christopher Nolan’s earlier movie, Tenet, primarily used tetchy violins to seize what Nolan euphemistically called “the highly-strung mind and emotion of Robert Oppenheimer.”
