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"I also just learned to cry. First, I got one tear, and then I got a whole bunch."
— Stereotypical Barbie
- "I'm Just Ken", a heartbreaking power ballad about Ken's lack of identity and status, even with the woman he desperately wants to be with.♫ I'm just Ken
Where I see love, she sees a friend
What will it take for her to see the man behind the tan
And fight for me? ♫ - Billie Eilish's song "What Was I Made For?" as a melancholic ballad describing Barbie's growing awareness and angst that something is wrong with her.I used to float, now I just fall down
I used to know but I'm not sure now
What I was made for
What was I made for? - At the beginning of the movie, Ken wants to spend the night with Barbie, but it's "Girls' Night" (which is every night), so she sends him away. After he brings Patriarchy to Barbie Land and takes over her Dream House, he flips the script and kicks her out so he can hang out with the other Kens on "Boys' Night". Even when Ken is finally able to convey the pain he's been feeling for so long, he doesn't get any catharsis from it because he still cares about Barbie.
- Barbie, while stuck in the Real World, tries to reach out with her feelings to find the young girl she's connected to, and she receives visions of Sasha as a young girl playing with Barbie dolls with her mother, only to grow older and lose interest as she becomes a teenager. Feeling the sadness of the moment, Barbie begins crying uncontrollably in a way she never did before. It gets more heartbreaking when it turns out Barbie's connection is with the mother Gloria, who is struggling to understand why Sasha is drifting away from her.
- Barbie's Heroic BSoD and feeling she's not good enough to actually be anything. She's basically hit the Despair Event Horizon and has lost all hope.
- This one really cuts deep. Stereotypical Barbie lists off all things she's not that other Barbies are: not a lawyer, not a doctor, not a president or astronaut or anything else. She's "just" Barbie, nothing special at all. No purpose, no goal, no skill or talent. For anyone who's ever felt useless, anyone who's felt achingly average surrounded by the extraordinary, Barbie's words hit a painful bullseye.
- Gloria's rant about the real world's patriarchy forcing every single woman to not be too much of one thing or another and forcing women to be extraordinary to be deemed worthy of respect, and it makes her completely exhausted is pretty heartbreaking. It resonates with the daily experience of many real-life women.
