26. BARBIE (w/amanda & amber)

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BARBIE EPISODE! Amanda and Amber rewatched the unhinged Barbie animated movies they grew up watching (Princess and the Pauper, Rapunzel, etc.) and analyzed how Barbie movies idealize white femininity, and how the Barbie THEY know differentiates from BARBIE (2023).

if you haven’t seen any of the Barbie animated movies here’s a brief recap to get the vibes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifIb4MR_c_k

HOSTS: Amanda (@amandalaynemiller) + Amber Miller (@amberlmiller)

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 intro

0:33 we rewatched every Barbie Animated movie. (kinda)

6:35 Barbie (2023) vs. Barbie the Actress

BARBIE (2023) DISCUSSION

10:35 Barbie (2023) vs. the Barbie we grew up with

14:39 triggered by mediocre white girls

16:09 She’s everything. He’s just Ken.

18:28 gender binary memes and jokes

21:38 idolizing people is dehumanizing

BARBIE ANIMATED MOVIES

22:03 we grew up with a useless white, blonde, pretty Barbie

27:13 CHECKLIST: what makes a Barbie movie?

28:59 THAT IS NOT KEN

33:05 talking pet animals are colonial?

36:36 extremely famous villains

MOVIE BY MOVIE

38:13 NUTCRACKER

black bg characters, fantasy logic, dumbass Nutcracker, be blonde and shut up and be pretty

49:17 RAPUNZEL

50:53 Barbie acting

51:51 SWAN LAKE

disturbing child elves, Odile is an icon, Rothbar’s nose, etc.

57:39 PRINCESS AND THE PAUPER

“Cat’s Meow” makes us sob, creepy ass otter from Rapunzel, blondes vs. brunettes, classism, musicals

1:03:30 FAIRYTOPIA/MERMAIDIA/MAGIC OF THE RAINBOW

Laverna’s motivation, Elina doesn’t do anything, justice for BIBBLE, POOR PLOT, dumb characters

1:10:10 MAGIC OF PEGASUS

vengeful Barbie & weird ass baby polar bear

1:11:38 12 DANCING PRINCESSES

1:12:15 BARBIE DIARIES

Every 2000s movie, Barbie doing too much/an asshole, “Kev” not Ken was a creep, passivity and mediocre whiteness & Lizzie Mcguire, gay Bibble erasure

1:16:42 ISLAND PRINCESS

the best one, all Barbies should be musicals, best villains: Ariana and Preminger, romanticizing colonialism, comparison with Princess and the Pauper

1:27:27 Barbie is so heteronormative it’s gay

CONCLUSIONS

1:30:19 concluding Princess and the Pauper thoughts

1:33:05 My Scene/Bratz & the impossibility of Barbie

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