“They weren’t going to wait for the music,” says Wyatt. These last-minute saves prove to be a recurring theme of our interview, reflecting the many fast-moving parts of the production and the pair’s relatively low ranking within it. “We did the strings the day before it went to mastering,” says Ronson. ![]() Then, days before it was due to be shipped for the trailer, they realised they had forgotten to replace the stopgap, synthesised instrumentation with the 80-piece orchestra they had recorded. ![]() Dance The Night came together at “the 11th hour”, says Ronson, with revisions needed to match the on-screen choreography. After their punchy, arch first effort, the second felt “a little too anodised, like we had corrected too much”. The song was needed for the trailer and, in England – at Warner Bro’s Leavesden studios where Barbie was largely produced – choreography was already in progress. So the duo went back to the drawing board – but they didn’t have long. The lyrics were “a little more ambiguous”, adds Wyatt. It wasn’t “marrying with what was happening on the screen: Margot Robbie in gold sequins, having the time of her life,” says Ronson. An early attempt was felt to be too knowing to suit that sunny early chapter of the film, preceding Barbie’s existential crisis. The challenge, he says, was making not just a dancefloor hit but one that supported the film. Their Barbie collaboration Dance The Night is similarly commanding: a shimmery slice of disco-pop, with the stylish orchestration and attention to detail that has made Ronson so in-demand as a producer. Having received his “marching orders” from Gerwig, Ronson’s first move was to hire Wyatt, the Miike Snow frontman with whom Ronson worked on A Star is Born, including Lady Gaga’s Oscar-winning hit Shallow. Photograph: Michael Tran/AFP/Getty Images “There’s always a part of us that wants to write timeless pop bangers, but our prerogative, at the time, was to make the best songs for the film.”īillie Eilish, pictured at the Los Angeles premiere, performed on the Barbie soundtrack. ![]() The last time a soundtrack scored a hat-trick was Saturday Night Fever and Grease, both in 1978, and even those songs only made the Top 10.Īppearing with Wyatt over video call from New York, Ronson remains stunned by its success. It also became the first soundtrack to land three singles in the UK Top 5 at once, including Dance The Night (alongside Nicki Minaj’s Barbie World and Billie Eilish’s What Was I Made For?). Just as the film broke box-office records, its soundtrack is the most successful so far this century. It turned out to be the biggest movie of the year, a cultural juggernaut that looks as if it will get a new lease of life at next year’s Oscars. Photograph: Amy Muir/Shutterstockįrom two songs, Ronson’s responsibilities expanded to overseeing the entire Barbie soundtrack and scoring the film with Andrew Wyatt, his longtime collaborator. Due Lipa sang the lead single, Dance the Night, on the Barbie soundtrack.
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