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Barbie and the plasticity of pop
Switched on Pop
Barbie: A Song About Beauty and Expectations
I feel like we're hearing Matt Black Plastic, which has been melted in the sun. This is a really sad ballad, which is appropriate for Billie Eilish. But it feels hard to decouple the Barbiness from those words. The commentary on beauty and expectations is important. And yet the sort of overly saccharin, just something you paid for, what was I made for?
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