Barbie Soundtrack: Sam Smh’s ‘Man I Am’ Has a Gay Ken

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• THE ‘BARBIE’ SOUNDTRACK IS A POP PLAYHOE THAT SHOULD’VE KICKED A FEW DOLLS OUTLET’S GO PARTYTHE STAR-STUDD SOUNDTRACK—WHICH FEATUR EVERYONE OM LIZZO TO BILLIE EILISH TO BRANDI CARLILE—BRGS AN ECLECTIC MIX OF STYL TO BARBIELAND.MALE ROTHENTERTAMENT EDORUPDATED JUL. 26, 2023 9:49AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 21, 2023 4:32AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY ELIZABETH BROCKWAY/THE DAILY BEAST/WARNER BROS./GETTYGRETA GERWIG’S BRILLIANTLY SUBVERSIVE AND SATIRIL BARBIE OPENS A LERAL DREAM HOE, WHERE ALL IS PERFECT AND PRISTE. BUT—AND ’S NO SPOILER TO SAY THIS, SCE WE’VE ALL BEEN PUMMELED WH TRAILERS SCE LAST DECEMBER— DON’T TAKE LONG BEFORE A DISTURBANCE THE FORCE STS A RA CLOUD OVER BARBIE’S PK PARADISE.HTG PLAY ON THE FILM’S ACPANYG SOUNDTRACK, BARBIE THE ALBUM, GIV YOU A SIAR SENSATN. AFTER STARTG OFF STRONG WH AN A-LIST ST OF STARS WHO UNRSTOOD THE ASSIGNMENT—LIZZO, DUA LIPA, AND BILLIE EILISH AMONG THEM—THGS H A SPEED BUMP, AND WE TUMBLE TO DRAB-POP TERRORY. AND “DRAB” IS CERTALY NEVER A WORD THAT OUGHT TO BE ASSOCIATED WH BARBIE.INED, THE SOUNDTRACK HAS S REQUISE SHARE OF GLZ AND GLAMOR. LIZZO OPENS BOTH THE ALBUM AND THE MOVIE SELF WH THE FIZZY, HORN-LACED “PK,” WHICH FDS HER NARRATG EXACTLY WHAT MARGOT ROBBIE’S TULAR IDOL IS DOG ON SCREEN AND LIVERG THIS GEM OF A SPELLG LSON: “P: PRETTY / I: INTELLIGENT / N: NEVER SAD / K: COOL!” THERE’S ALSO THE ALBUM’S LEAD SGLE, LIPA’S DIS-POP ANTHEM “DANCE THE NIGHT,” AND NICKI MAJ AND ICE SPICE’S “BARBIE WORLD,” A DRILL FLIP OF AQUA’S 1997 H “BARBIE GIRL.” AN ALBUM FILLED SOLELY WH OTHY, GLOSSY POP ANTHEMS LIKE THOSE WOULD HAVE BEEN BORG AND RNDANT—AND, NOT TO MENTN, DISGENUO TO GERWIG’S FILM, WHICH STRIK A SURPRISG EMOTNAL CHORD. BUT THE SONGS THAT WORK BT ON BARBIE THE ALBUM ARE THE ON THAT ARE NVERSATN WH THE MOVIE, S CHARACTERS, AND S WORLD. IT’S WHY EVEN A VASTATG BALLAD LIKE EILISH’S “WHAT WAS I MA FOR?” WORKS SO WELL—’S THE EMOTNAL CENTERPIECE OF BOTH THE ALBUM AND THE MOVIE, AND GIV VOICE TO BARBIE’S TERNAL MONOLOGUE AS SHE GRAPPL WH FEELGS OF EXISTENTIAL DREAD AND SELF-DOUBT. NOT ONLY THAT, BUT ALSO WORKS BEE EILISH IS ONE OF THE ARTISTS HERE WHO MANAGED TO TAKE HER MIL STYLE AND ADAPT TO THE SPECIFIC WORLD OF BARBIE. SHE’S NOT THE ONLY ONE—HAIM, FOR EXAMPLE, BRG THEIR WISTFUL, PULSATG DIE-POP TO “HOME,” A HEARTFELT BUT CIDLY NON-CHEY MEDATN ON LEARNG TO TST ONELF: “I NEVER THOUGHT THAT I ULD BE THE ONE TO OPEN MY EY,” DANIELLE HAIM SGS. SIARLY SUCCSFUL ARE TAME IMPALA’S PREDICTABLY PSYCHELIC “JOURNEY TO THE REAL WORLD,” DOMIC FIKE’S EARNT EARWORM “HEY BLONDIE,” AND CHARLI XCX’S “SPEED DRIVE,” WHICH TAK HER GRIMY, HYPER-POP SENSIBILI AND DIALS THGS UP A NOTCH BY SAMPLG TONI BASIL’S “MICKEY.” AND THEN THERE’S SAM SMH, WHO SH ON THE SUBLIMELY CHEEKY “MAN I AM,” ONE OF THE ALBUM’S TWO KEN-CENTRIC CUTS. SMH’S SONG IS AN ANTHEM FOR MACHISMO ABOUT SIX PACKS, STRIP CLUBS, WALL STREET, RS WH DIRTY WHEELS, AND BEG “SO BEEFED-UP YOU N’T GET THROUGH THE DOOR.” AND HEARG SMH, WHO IS NON-BARY AND GENRQUEER, ADOPT AN “I’M TOO SEXY”-QUE ROBO-GROWL TO SG LYRICS LIKE, “NO I’M NOT GAY, BRO, BUT I’VE BEEN ON THAT LAY-LOW” TO EMPHASIZE THE ABSURDY OF KEN’S MACHO UTOPIA IS JT BRILLIANT. EQUALLY DOWN TO PLAY IS RYAN GOSLG, WHO RURRECTS HIS NER MOEKETEER WH THE ’80S POWER BALLAD “JT KEN,” WHICH HIS SWEET, WELL-MEANG HIMBO GETS HIS MOMENT THE SPOTLIGHT TO ASK THE CRIL QUTNS: “IS MY STY TO LIVE AND DIE A LIFE OF BLOND AGILY?”THROUGH THE FIRST 11 OR SO TRACKS, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER MARK RONSON’S FLAIR FOR CURATN SEEMGLY REMAS IMPECBLE; THIS IS THE MASTERMD WHO, EVERY FEW YEARS, CIS TO ROUND UP SOME OF HIS FAVORE ARTISTS AND BLS WH A STYLISH, LLAGE-STYLE ALBUM THAT REMDS THE MAN’S GOT TASTE. IT DON’T SEEM LIKE A CINCE, THEN, THAT RONSON DON’T APPEAR THE PRODUCTN CREDS FOR THE BARBIE THE ALBUM SONGS THAT H THE AFOREMENTNED SPEED BUMP. THE KID LAROI AND KHALID EACH NTRIBUTE STANTLY FETTABLE CUTS THAT DON’T SOUND LIKE THEY HAVE ANYTHG TO DO WH BARBIE. DTO FOR AVA MAX’S “CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER,” WHICH SOUNDS LIKE NOTHG MORE THAN A B-SI TO HER 2020 SGLE “KGS & QUEENS,” AND GAYLE’S “BUTTERFLI,” WHICH, AT THE VERY LEAST, AIMS FOR SOME ORIGALY BY FLIPPG CRAZY TOWN’S “BUTTERFLY” TO A BRATTY, ANGSTY RAGER. RONSON ULTIMATELY DO, HOWEVER, GET POTS FOR ATTEMPTG TO DIVERSIFY BARBIE THE ALBUM WH A SURPRISG MIX OF GENR AND STYL, EVEN WHEN THEY FEEL MERELY TACKED ON. BRISH BEDROOM POP WUNRKD PKPANTHERS BRGS HER SGULAR VISN TO “ANGEL,” WHILE LAT POP STAR KAROL G NTRIBUT THE REGGAETON JAM “WATITI,” AND FIFTY FIFTY FOLLOW THEIR VIRAL H “CUPID” WH THE ALMOST SICKENGLY SWEET K-POP NFECTN “BARBIE DREAMS,” ABOUT LIVG A “PERFECT PLASTIC LIFE OM A MAGAZE.” WARNER BROS./ATLANTIC RERDS AND A LAST-MUTE SURPRISE FOR FANS WHO HADN’T BEEN PRIVY TO THE PLETE TRACKLIST, BARBIE THE ALBUM ENDS WH A VER OF THE INDIGO GIRLS’ “CLOSER TO FE,” PERFORMED BY BRANDI CARLILE AND HER WIFE, CATHERE CARLILE, WHO SWCH UP THE MELODY FOR AN EVEN MORE NTEMPLATIVE, SLOWED-DOWN TAKE ON THE 1989 CLASSIC. THE INDIGO GIRLS VERSN IS REPEATEDLY FEATURED BARBIE AS A SGALONG MOMENT FOR ROBBIE, AND STANDS TO REASON THAT, MUCH LIKE HOW GEN-Z TIKTOKERS “DISVERED” FLEETWOOD MAC AND THE CRANBERRI RECENT YEARS AND ROCKETED THOSE GROUPS TO NEWFOUND VIRALY, THE INDIGO GIRLS MIGHT BE FOR A RURGENCE OF THEIR OWN.CHIEF AMONG BARBIE’S LIFE LSONS IS THAT WE N BE ANYTHG WE WANT, BUT ’S ALSO OK IF WE JT WANT TO BE ORDARY. BARBIE THE ALBUM LEAV WH A SIAR SENSE OF ACCEPTANCE AND POSSIBILY: IT’S NOT AS EXCELLENT OR AS FE-TUNED AS ULD HAVE BEEN, THANKS TO A FEW BTED TERLOPERS, BUT THERE’S PLENTY OF FUN AND PLENTY TO ENJOY AS THE SUMMER OF BARBIE RAG ON. AND, ONCE AGA, GAVE RYAN GOSLG BELTG A POWER BALLAD—DO WE NEED MUCH MORE THAN THAT?KEEP OBSSG! SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED NEWSLETTER AND FOLLOW ON FACEBOOK, TWTER, INSTAGRAM AND TIKTOK.READ MORE OF OUR BARBIE VERAGE HERE. MALE ROTH
• THE BALLAD OF GAY TONY: WHAT TO EXPECT
• THE BALLAD OF GAY TONY/SOUNDTRACKS

THE ‘BARBIE’ SOUNDTRACK IS A POP PLAYHOE THAT SHOULD’VE KICKED A FEW DOLLS OUTLET’S GO PARTYTHE STAR-STUDD SOUNDTRACK—WHICH FEATUR EVERYONE OM LIZZO TO BILLIE EILISH TO BRANDI CARLILE—BRGS AN ECLECTIC MIX OF STYL TO BARBIELAND.MALE ROTHENTERTAMENT EDORUPDATED JUL. 26, 2023 9:49AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 21, 2023 4:32AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY ELIZABETH BROCKWAY/THE DAILY BEAST/WARNER BROS./GETTYGRETA GERWIG’S BRILLIANTLY SUBVERSIVE AND SATIRIL BARBIE OPENS A LERAL DREAM HOE, WHERE ALL IS PERFECT AND PRISTE. BUT—AND ’S NO SPOILER TO SAY THIS, SCE WE’VE ALL BEEN PUMMELED WH TRAILERS SCE LAST DECEMBER— DON’T TAKE LONG BEFORE A DISTURBANCE THE FORCE STS A RA CLOUD OVER BARBIE’S PK PARADISE.HTG PLAY ON THE FILM’S ACPANYG SOUNDTRACK, BARBIE THE ALBUM, GIV YOU A SIAR SENSATN. AFTER STARTG OFF STRONG WH AN A-LIST ST OF STARS WHO UNRSTOOD THE ASSIGNMENT—LIZZO, DUA LIPA, AND BILLIE EILISH AMONG THEM—THGS H A SPEED BUMP, AND WE TUMBLE TO DRAB-POP TERRORY. AND “DRAB” IS CERTALY NEVER A WORD THAT OUGHT TO BE ASSOCIATED WH BARBIE.INED, THE SOUNDTRACK HAS S REQUISE SHARE OF GLZ AND GLAMOR. LIZZO OPENS BOTH THE ALBUM AND THE MOVIE SELF WH THE FIZZY, HORN-LACED “PK,” WHICH FDS HER NARRATG EXACTLY WHAT MARGOT ROBBIE’S TULAR IDOL IS DOG ON SCREEN AND LIVERG THIS GEM OF A SPELLG LSON: “P: PRETTY / I: INTELLIGENT / N: NEVER SAD / K: COOL!” THERE’S ALSO THE ALBUM’S LEAD SGLE, LIPA’S DIS-POP ANTHEM “DANCE THE NIGHT,” AND NICKI MAJ AND ICE SPICE’S “BARBIE WORLD,” A DRILL FLIP OF AQUA’S 1997 H “BARBIE GIRL.” AN ALBUM FILLED SOLELY WH OTHY, GLOSSY POP ANTHEMS LIKE THOSE WOULD HAVE BEEN BORG AND RNDANT—AND, NOT TO MENTN, DISGENUO TO GERWIG’S FILM, WHICH STRIK A SURPRISG EMOTNAL CHORD. BUT THE SONGS THAT WORK BT ON BARBIE THE ALBUM ARE THE ON THAT ARE NVERSATN WH THE MOVIE, S CHARACTERS, AND S WORLD. IT’S WHY EVEN A VASTATG BALLAD LIKE EILISH’S “WHAT WAS I MA FOR?” WORKS SO WELL—’S THE EMOTNAL CENTERPIECE OF BOTH THE ALBUM AND THE MOVIE, AND GIV VOICE TO BARBIE’S TERNAL MONOLOGUE AS SHE GRAPPL WH FEELGS OF EXISTENTIAL DREAD AND SELF-DOUBT. NOT ONLY THAT, BUT ALSO WORKS BEE EILISH IS ONE OF THE ARTISTS HERE WHO MANAGED TO TAKE HER MIL STYLE AND ADAPT TO THE SPECIFIC WORLD OF BARBIE. SHE’S NOT THE ONLY ONE—HAIM, FOR EXAMPLE, BRG THEIR WISTFUL, PULSATG DIE-POP TO “HOME,” A HEARTFELT BUT CIDLY NON-CHEY MEDATN ON LEARNG TO TST ONELF: “I NEVER THOUGHT THAT I ULD BE THE ONE TO OPEN MY EY,” DANIELLE HAIM SGS. SIARLY SUCCSFUL ARE TAME IMPALA’S PREDICTABLY PSYCHELIC “JOURNEY TO THE REAL WORLD,” DOMIC FIKE’S EARNT EARWORM “HEY BLONDIE,” AND CHARLI XCX’S “SPEED DRIVE,” WHICH TAK HER GRIMY, HYPER-POP SENSIBILI AND DIALS THGS UP A NOTCH BY SAMPLG TONI BASIL’S “MICKEY.” AND THEN THERE’S SAM SMH, WHO SH ON THE SUBLIMELY CHEEKY “MAN I AM,” ONE OF THE ALBUM’S TWO KEN-CENTRIC CUTS. SMH’S SONG IS AN ANTHEM FOR MACHISMO ABOUT SIX PACKS, STRIP CLUBS, WALL STREET, RS WH DIRTY WHEELS, AND BEG “SO BEEFED-UP YOU N’T GET THROUGH THE DOOR.” AND HEARG SMH, WHO IS NON-BARY AND GENRQUEER, ADOPT AN “I’M TOO SEXY”-QUE ROBO-GROWL TO SG LYRICS LIKE, “NO I’M NOT GAY, BRO, BUT I’VE BEEN ON THAT LAY-LOW” TO EMPHASIZE THE ABSURDY OF KEN’S MACHO UTOPIA IS JT BRILLIANT. EQUALLY DOWN TO PLAY IS RYAN GOSLG, WHO RURRECTS HIS NER MOEKETEER WH THE ’80S POWER BALLAD “JT KEN,” WHICH HIS SWEET, WELL-MEANG HIMBO GETS HIS MOMENT THE SPOTLIGHT TO ASK THE CRIL QUTNS: “IS MY STY TO LIVE AND DIE A LIFE OF BLOND AGILY?”THROUGH THE FIRST 11 OR SO TRACKS, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER MARK RONSON’S FLAIR FOR CURATN SEEMGLY REMAS IMPECBLE; THIS IS THE MASTERMD WHO, EVERY FEW YEARS, CIS TO ROUND UP SOME OF HIS FAVORE ARTISTS AND BLS WH A STYLISH, LLAGE-STYLE ALBUM THAT REMDS THE MAN’S GOT TASTE. IT DON’T SEEM LIKE A CINCE, THEN, THAT RONSON DON’T APPEAR THE PRODUCTN CREDS FOR THE BARBIE THE ALBUM SONGS THAT H THE AFOREMENTNED SPEED BUMP. THE KID LAROI AND KHALID EACH NTRIBUTE STANTLY FETTABLE CUTS THAT DON’T SOUND LIKE THEY HAVE ANYTHG TO DO WH BARBIE. DTO FOR AVA MAX’S “CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER,” WHICH SOUNDS LIKE NOTHG MORE THAN A B-SI TO HER 2020 SGLE “KGS & QUEENS,” AND GAYLE’S “BUTTERFLI,” WHICH, AT THE VERY LEAST, AIMS FOR SOME ORIGALY BY FLIPPG CRAZY TOWN’S “BUTTERFLY” TO A BRATTY, ANGSTY RAGER. RONSON ULTIMATELY DO, HOWEVER, GET POTS FOR ATTEMPTG TO DIVERSIFY BARBIE THE ALBUM WH A SURPRISG MIX OF GENR AND STYL, EVEN WHEN THEY FEEL MERELY TACKED ON. BRISH BEDROOM POP WUNRKD PKPANTHERS BRGS HER SGULAR VISN TO “ANGEL,” WHILE LAT POP STAR KAROL G NTRIBUT THE REGGAETON JAM “WATITI,” AND FIFTY FIFTY FOLLOW THEIR VIRAL H “CUPID” WH THE ALMOST SICKENGLY SWEET K-POP NFECTN “BARBIE DREAMS,” ABOUT LIVG A “PERFECT PLASTIC LIFE OM A MAGAZE.” WARNER BROS./ATLANTIC RERDS AND A LAST-MUTE SURPRISE FOR FANS WHO HADN’T BEEN PRIVY TO THE PLETE TRACKLIST, BARBIE THE ALBUM ENDS WH A VER OF THE INDIGO GIRLS’ “CLOSER TO FE,” PERFORMED BY BRANDI CARLILE AND HER WIFE, CATHERE CARLILE, WHO SWCH UP THE MELODY FOR AN EVEN MORE NTEMPLATIVE, SLOWED-DOWN TAKE ON THE 1989 CLASSIC. THE INDIGO GIRLS VERSN IS REPEATEDLY FEATURED BARBIE AS A SGALONG MOMENT FOR ROBBIE, AND STANDS TO REASON THAT, MUCH LIKE HOW GEN-Z TIKTOKERS “DISVERED” FLEETWOOD MAC AND THE CRANBERRI RECENT YEARS AND ROCKETED THOSE GROUPS TO NEWFOUND VIRALY, THE INDIGO GIRLS MIGHT BE FOR A RURGENCE OF THEIR OWN.CHIEF AMONG BARBIE’S LIFE LSONS IS THAT WE N BE ANYTHG WE WANT, BUT ’S ALSO OK IF WE JT WANT TO BE ORDARY. BARBIE THE ALBUM LEAV WH A SIAR SENSE OF ACCEPTANCE AND POSSIBILY: IT’S NOT AS EXCELLENT OR AS FE-TUNED AS ULD HAVE BEEN, THANKS TO A FEW BTED TERLOPERS, BUT THERE’S PLENTY OF FUN AND PLENTY TO ENJOY AS THE SUMMER OF BARBIE RAG ON. AND, ONCE AGA, GAVE RYAN GOSLG BELTG A POWER BALLAD—DO WE NEED MUCH MORE THAN THAT?KEEP OBSSG! SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED NEWSLETTER AND FOLLOW ON FACEBOOK, TWTER, INSTAGRAM AND TIKTOK.READ MORE OF OUR BARBIE VERAGE HERE. MALE ROTH

Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony adds to the soundtracks of the standard Grand Theft Auto IV and The Lost and Damned while keepg all of the prev mic om Liberty Cy. Below is a full tracklist for The Ballad of Gay Tony.

THE BALLAD OF GAY TONY: WHAT TO EXPECT

Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony featur a variety of soundtrack updat.

THE BALLAD OF GAY TONY/SOUNDTRACKS

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” And hearg Smh, who is non-bary and genrqueer, adopt an “I’m Too Sexy”-que robo-growl to sg lyrics like, “No I’m not gay, bro, but I’ve been on that lay-low” to emphasize the absurdy of Ken’s macho utopia is jt brilliant. Dto for Ava Max’s “Choose Your Fighter, ” which sounds like nothg more than a B-si to her 2020 sgle “Kgs & Queens, ” and GAYLE’s “butterfli, ” which, at the very least, aims for some origaly by flippg Crazy Town’s “Butterfly” to a bratty, angsty ultimately do, however, get pots for attemptg to diversify Barbie The Album wh a surprisg mix of genr and styl, even when they feel merely tacked on.

“No, I’m not gay, bro / But I’ve been on that lay low. Siar to the first datadisk, The Ballad of Gay Tony brgs a brand new soundtrack. Some of them n be heard Hercul gay club (owned by “Gay Tony” Prce).

He’s not allowed to enter Maisote 9 and Hercul don’t appeal to him at all for beg a gay club. Can The Ballad of Gay Tony repeat that trick?

First the basics – the eponymo Gay Tony won't be the game's lead, though the tle suggts he'll form the narrative cx of the game.

Anthony 'Gay Tony' Prce is a character faiar to those who played through Niko's tale, a larger than life purveyor of Liberty Cy's seedy nightlife.

Havg fallen on hard tim, 's likely that The Ballad of Gay Tony will chronicle the one-time high-roller's stggle wh poverty, and his speratn as he tri to rega his former fancial rich. And that dis soundtrack wouldn't go amiss eher – much the same way that Liberty Cy Rock and LCHC were given a signifint overhl for The Lost and Damned, expect K109, Electrochoc and The Vibe to be given a whole new host of tracks to supplement The Ballad of Gay Tony's new directn. While the story may be about Gay Tony, the protagonist for this next episo will be a character far removed om the flamboyant flair of the nightclub owner - Luis Fernando Lopez, a Domin gangster who also acts as Gay Tony's bodyguard.

While the crossover pots between Niko, Johnny and Lois suggt some of the missns that will appear The Ballad of Gay Tony, other clu pot towards some of the other elements we n expect to see when the episo lands this October.

Lopez is affiliated wh the Northwood Domin Dg Dealers, who operate out of the Northern tip of Algonqu, while Gay Tony's empire operated across the South Eastern area of the island, suggtg that, as Alrney was the heart of The Lost and The Damned, Algonqu will form the foc of many of the adventur The Ballad of Gay Tony. Likewise, tradnal gay districts such as The Village and Hell's Kchen will likely feature heavily their GTA IV rnatns as Wtmster and Purgatory.