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2023: The year of the girl

From Barbie to the Eras Tour to girl dinner, girliness and girly aesthetics have dominated pop culture this year – but why?

Dec 12, 2023

Jess Bacon

Watch the new video for Charli XCX’s Barbie banger, ‘Speed Drive’

Charli and Devon Lee Carlson race a pink Corvette in the official Barbie the Album visuals, with a surprise cameo from Sam Smith

Aug 16, 2023

Thom Waite

The Barbie movie is too gay for Algeria, sadly

The North African country’s Ministry of Culture has demanded cinemas remove the film ‘immediately’, following in the footsteps of Kuwait and Lebanon’s Barbie ban

Aug 16, 2023

Elliot Hoste

Barbie is a Bollywood film

With its big musical numbers and whimsical settings, Barbie is pretty similar to a lot of Indian cinema, argues Shivani Dubey

Aug 04, 2023

Shivani Dubey

New Music Friday: 5 albums to stream this week

From an alt-rap record by Paris Texas, to the pure pop stylings of Barbie The Album, here’s five albums you don’t want to miss this week

Jul 21, 2023

Elliot Hoste

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What Barbie’s high-pink, utopian aesthetic can teach us about ourselves

As Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is released, Liara Roux speaks to writer Whitney Mallett about the doll’s bubblegum-pop Dreamhouses, and what they can teach us about girlhood, desire and contemporary society

Jul 21, 2023

Liara Roux

Art & Photography

An artist has created the world’s ‘Barbiest pink’ to protest Mattel

Buyers have to pinkie promise that Stuart Semple’s paint won’t fall into the Barbie manufacturer’s hands

Art & Photography

Jul 20, 2023

Thom Waite

Fashion

Hari Nef’s latest Barbie look offered salvation in silver cutlery

The actor turned up to the London premiere of the movie in a Joan of Arc-esque look by Dilara Findikoglu

Fashion

Jul 13, 2023

Emma Elizabeth Davidson

Daniel Kaluuya’s Barney film will be a ‘surreal, A24-type’ work of art

It is one of 45 films Mattel has lined up after Barbie, because we’re all children and original ideas are dead

Jul 04, 2023

Thom Waite

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie drained the global supply of pink paint

‘The world [ran] out of pink,’ said the film’s production designer

Jun 05, 2023

Elliot Hoste

Birkenstocks and Indigo Girls? Barbie is a lesbian

As Barbie chooses Birkenstocks and belts out ‘Closer to Fine’ in her car, we unpack the secret meaning behind the trailer – and whether the film could end up being the lesbian Matrix

May 26, 2023

Alex Peters

Dua Lipa: from pop princess to Versace collaborator

She’s touched on pop perfection with ‘hard, plastic’ songs tooled with laser precision. Now, Dua Lipa is teaming with Versace on a new fashion line, bonding with fans over books – and making a splash on screen in Barbie

May 24, 2023

Owen Myers

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The new trailer for Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is finally here

Welcome to the dawn of (wo)man

Dec 16, 2022

Elliot Hoste

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Noah Baumbach wants you to confront your mortality

‘It’s about the fear of death’: the director talks to Nick Chen about his new apocalyptic thriller, White Noise – a remake of Don DeLillo’s ‘unfilmable’ novel of the same name