‘Barbie’ Music Producer Mark Ronson On Making One Of The Biggest Albums Of The Year
etcanada.comAccomplished music producer Mark Ronson had to take a different approach to “Barbie”. The well-known producer has worked with big names like Amy Winehouse, Adele, Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney, Bruno Mars and many others, creating hit after hit, but when it came to making a movie soundtrack, it was a different beast entirely. “I can play a track for an artist and it’s a banger, right?,” he told Variety. “With movies, it’s completely different.
It might be an undeniably great piece of music, but if it’s not matching this unspoken thing that the director has always imagined when they see that image on the screen, it doesn’t work.” READ MORE: America Ferrera Shocks ‘Barbie’ Co-Stars After Saying Her Guilty Pleasure Is ‘Not Showering For A Few Days’ Ronson co-write and co-produced five songs for the new film, along with cowriting the score with his longtime collaborator, Andrew Wyatt, who also served executive music producer.
In fact, as the producer became more and more involved with the film, he put his own solo album and memoir on pause to focus entirely on “Barbie”.
As for the exact tracks he laid a hand on, they were Dual Lipa’s track, Lizzo’s, Dominic Fike’s, Ryan Gosling’s, and Sam Smith’s.
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