Rob Thomas Reacts to “Barbie” Movie with Matchbox Twenty Song
Rob Thomas Reacts to “Barbie” Movie with Matchbox Twenty Song
I *finally* saw Barbie and……. duh, it was great. It was everything I’ve been saying and preaching and praying and hoping it would be for the past year.
There was one part in particular that particularly gagged me a bit.
I FULLY wasn’t expecting there to be a Matchbox Twenty song in my lil’ ol’ Barbie movie.
In the scene, Ken plays “Push” for Barbie on his acoustic guitar for hours. This sets off a montage of the other Kens doing the same thing.
In an interview with USA Today, Rob said how he really felt about it: “I want to preface this by saying that I thought it was hilarious.”
“But in Bring It On, (Kirsten Dunst’s character) has this douchey boyfriend. And there’s a scene where he was in his dorm room with a Matchbox Twenty poster in the background. There was a whole period during the ‘90s where the more successful we got, the bigger target we were. We were an easy takedown,” he said.
“When I got the call for Barbie, they told me, ‘Ken’s by the fireside, he’s playing the song and it’s his favorite band.’ So I did this thinking I’d be the butt of the joke, and I was fine with that. I’m pretty thick-skinned,” he continued.
“But Julie Greenwald (from Atlantic Records) came to the Hollywood Bowl a month or two ago. She had just seen the movie and was like, ‘You come out of it loving Ken and loving ‘Push.’’ And I was like, ‘Aww. Alright, really good!'”
“Also, Greta Gerwig has been one of my crushes forever, to the point where I was on a plane one time and I called my wife, like, ‘Baby, Greta Gerwig just came on the plane, oh my God.’ So just the fact that it didn’t diminish my crush of Greta, that’s even better,” he finished.
So, there you have it. It was all in good faith. My only critique is that I somewhat prefer “Unwell” or “Bent.”
