Barbie World

## Music Video

"**Barbie World**" is a song by Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice from the Barbie Movie Soundtrack. It was released by Atlantic, 10K Projects and Capitol Records as the soundtrack's fourth single on June 23, 2023. The song will be serviced to U.S. contemporary hit radio on June 27, 2023.

"Barbie World" samples the 1997 single "Barbie Girl" by the Danish band Aqua, who are credited as performers and co-writers in the song

According to rumors, the song will be on Ice Spice's debut album

## Background

In April 2022, it was announced that the Greta Gerwig-directed live-action Barbie film would be released on July 21, 2023.

Fans expected the 1997 song "Barbie Girl" by Danish-Norwegian band Aqua to feature in the film. However, Ulrich Møller-Jørgensen, manager for Aqua lead singer Lene Nystrøm, stated that it was not used. *Variety* speculated that this was due to bad relations between Mattel and MCA Records, the song's American publisher, who engaged in a series of lawsuits over the song from 1997 to 2002.

In May 2023, a second trailer for the film was released, which featured a snippet of a new song with vocals by rapper Nicki Minaj. Media speculated the composition to be a remix of "Barbie Girl". On May 25, *Barbie: The Album*, the soundtrack to the film, was announced. Minaj and fellow rapper Ice Spice were revealed among multiple artists to be performing new original material on the record.

In an episode of her *Queen Radio* show, Minaj revealed that Ice Spice had invited her to collaborate on the song; she accepted her offer as she felt it was the first time the song had been interpolated "in a way that didn't make [Minaj] uncomfortable or gimmicky. She figured out "it needed to be a beat that would still [embody] Barbie & Nicki [...]". She further said fans would be impressed by producer RIOTUSA's "reimagined twist" on "Barbie Girl".

## Lyrics

**[Intro]**

I'm always yours, ooh woah (Stop playin' with 'em, RIOT)

**[Chorus: Ice Spice & Nicki Minaj]**

And I'm bad like the Barbie (Barbie)

I'm a doll, but I still wanna party (Party)

Pink 'Vette like I'm ready to bend (Bend)

I'm a ten, so I pull in a Ken

Like Jazzie, Stacie, Nicki (Grrah)

All of the Barbies is pretty (Damn)

All of the Barbies is bad

It girls (It girls) and we ain't playin' tag (Grrah)

**[Verse 1: Nicki Minaj]**

Rad, but he spank me when I get bad

I'm in LA, Rodeo Drive

I'm in New York, Madison Ave

I'm a Barbie girl (Girl), Pink Barbie Dreamhouse

The way Ken be killin' shit got me yellin' out like the Scream house (Woo)

Yellin' out, we ain't sellin' out

We got money, but we ain't lendin' out

We got bars, but we ain't bailin' out

In that pink Ferrari, we peelin' out

I told Tae bring the Bob Dylan out

That pussy so cold, we just chillin' out

They be yellin', yellin', ye-yellin' out

It's Barbie, bitch, if you still in doubt (Oh)

**[Chorus: Ice Spice & Nicki Minaj]**

And I'm bad like the Barbie (Barbie)

I'm a doll, but I still wanna party (Party)

Pink 'Vette like I'm ready to bend (Bend)

I'm a ten, so I pull in a Ken

Like Jazzie, Stacie, Nicki (Grrah)

All of the Barbies is pretty (Damn)

All of the Barbies is bad

It girls (It girls) and we ain't playin' tag (Grrah)

**[Verse 2: Ice Spice]**

Barbie ain't nothin' to play 'bout

He wanna play in the Playhouse (Playhouse)

The fuck they gon' say now? (Grrah)

I'm washin' these bitches, I'm rubbin' the stain out

Like I'm ready to bend (Grrah)

All the fake Barbies just wanna pretend (Hey)

Like hold on, let me go find me a pen (Grrah)

Look where it led, now I'ma put it to bed

She a Barbie bitch with her Barbie clique (Grrah)

I keep draggin' her, so she bald a bit (Damn)

And I see the bread, I want all of it (Damn)

And I want the green, so I olive it (Grrah)

And I throw it back, so he losin' it (Like)

And I give the box with no shoes in it (Damn)

Yeah, I know the trick, so I got him bricked (Damn)

Yeah, they know who lit, me and Barbie, bitch

**[Chorus: Ice Spice & Nicki Minaj]**

And I'm bad like the Barbie (Barbie)

I'm a doll, but I still wanna party (Party)

Pink 'Vette like I'm ready to bend (Bend)

I'm a ten, so I pull in a Ken

Like Jazzie, Stacie, Nicki (Grrah)

All of the Barbies is pretty (Damn)

All of the Barbies is bad

It girls (It girls) and we ain't playin' tag (Grrah)

**[Outro]**

I'm a Barbie girl in the Barbie world

Life in plastic, it's fantastic

You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere

Imagination, life is your creation