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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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