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Barbie: The Movie may not come out until July 21, but for those itching for more Barbie content, Mattel just dropped an exclusive collection based on the film — and you can shop it now. You’ll be saying “Hi, Barbie!” to these fashion-forward, and, most importantly, pink dolls and accessories.
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The cast of the movie had the chance to see their characters in doll form and couldn’t get over how accurate they are to the film.
“It’s everything,” Margot Robbie, who stars as Barbie, said about her disco doll in a press release. “Wow, this is so good.”
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From Robbie’s iconic hot-pink cowgirl ‘fit to Ken’s beachy pink and light green matching set, you can add these movie-inspired dolls to your collection. There are even a few collector edition dolls you’ll recognize from the most recent trailer, including from the glamorous disco scene and Barbie’s classic pink convertible.
The doll, accessory and game collection ranges from $7 to $51, and will help turn your home into your very own Barbieland. You can shop the full collection wherever Mattel is sold, such as Amazon, Walmart and Target. Scroll down to shop the exclusive collection while it’s still in stock!
For more product recommendations, check out our roundups of Fenty Beauty’s “Summatime” collection, the best Mermaidcore clothing and accessories and Dua Lipa’s Versace collection.
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Barbie The Movie Doll, Margot Robbie as Barbie, Collectible Doll Wearing Pink and White Gingham Dress
$25.00
We’re not surprised this is rated No. 1 for new doll releases on Amazon. Inspired by the scene of Robbie floating down from her dream house, this doll comes styled in an elegant and graceful pink-and-white gingham dress accessorized with pink heels, a matching bow and white jewelry to complete it.
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Barbie The Movie Ken Doll Wearing Pastel Pink and Green Striped Beach Matching Set
$25.00
You can’t have Barbie without her strapping sidekick Ken, and this beach-inspired doll has the stylish green-and-pink striped set with a blue surfboard to catch waves with.
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Barbie The Movie Doll, President Barbie Collectible
$50.00
Issa Rae’s President Barbie doll is an ethereal vision serving grace and sophistication in her gold and pink gown with a sash featuring the iconic Barbie font.
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Barbie: The Movie Collectible Doll Margot Robbie as Barbie in Pink Western Outfit
$50.99
Say “howdy” to this Western-inspired Barbie doll complete with pink bell-bottom pants patterned with stars and a matching top. You’ll be tipping your cap to this doll as you put her front and center in your display case.
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Barbie The Movie Collectible Ken Doll Wearing All-Denim Matching Set
$50.00
This Ken doll makes a case for the denim-on-denim look as he sports straight-legged jeans and an open vest with “Ken” boxers peeking out. He’ll certainly be setting trends both in and out of the box.
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Barbie The Movie Collectible Doll, Margot Robbie as Barbie in Gold Disco Jumpsuit
$49.97
Just one look at this groovy disco Barbie will have you ready to get on the dance floor in your sparkliest jumpsuit. It comes from the special collectible line of Barbie: The Movie dolls, which means that once they’re sold out, Mattel won’t be making any more.
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Barbie The Movie Doll, Margot Robbie as Barbie, Collectible Doll Wearing Blue Plaid Matching Set
$50.00
Showing off preppy perfection is this collectible Barbie in a blue plaid matching set. This doll is another collectible version, which means only a set amount were, made so you’ll want to snag her while she’s still available!
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Barbie The Movie Doll, Gloria Collectible Wearing Three-Piece Pink Power Pantsuit
$50.00
We love a power suit, and Barbie’s friend Gloria is showing off her best doll version of it as she wears pink pinstripe pants with a silky blazer and pink sweater top.
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UNO Barbie The Movie Card Game
$6.49
The classic UNO game gets a Barbie spin with each card featuring a character or setting from the film. Now you can combine your favorite card game with the iconic character as you wait for the film to come out.
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Hot Wheels RC Barbie Corvette
$54.99
Take the classic pink corvette for a spin with Hot Wheels’ remote controllable Barbie car. You can add your dolls in or just keep it empty. Either way you’re in control.
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Barbie: The Movie Fashion Pack
$50.99
Give your Barbie or Gloria an outfit change with this clothing and accessory set featuring more pieces to expect from the movie including a pink matching pajama set and blue and white dress and short set.
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Little People Collector Barbie: The Movie Special Edition Set
$24.99
Get a mini version of the dolls with Little People’s Collector Barbie: The Movie Special Edition Set, which includes Barbie, Ken, Gloria and President Barbie in a special collector’s box for you to display on your mantel.
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Little Richard knew exactly what he was doing when he sang the seemingly gibberish lyrics “Awop-bop-a-loo-mop-alop-bam-boom/ If it don’t fit, don’t force it/ You can grease it and make it easy.” The iconic couplet he originally wrote for his 1955 breakthrough hit “Tutti Fruitti” is explored in a new episode of PBS’ American Masters, “Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” which will debut on public stations on Friday (June 2) at 9 p.m. ET as pat of LGBTQIA+ Pride Month and African American Music Appreciation Month.
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The show, which features interviews with the Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards, Nile Rodgers, Pat Boone, Ringo Starr, Bobby Rush and Big Freedia, as well as activist/drag performer Sir Lady Java and Richard’s spiritual advisor, Rev. Bill Minson, tells the origin story of Richard (born Richard Wayne Penniman) from a child prodigy steeped in the world of gospel to global rock stardom; it features never-before heard audio recordings of Richard made by his authorized biographer, Charles White, who is also featured.
In a Billboard exclusive clip from the show (see below), Little Richard’s bandmates and contemporaries talk about the origin story of “Tutti Frutti,” which was birthed at the raucous Dew Drop Inn in New Orleans. “When we went into the Drew Drop Inn there was a piano… and that’s when I began to know and understand Little Richard,” says Specialty Records producer Robert “Bumps” Blackwell.
“‘Cause that’s all you gotta do is give Richard an audience, turn the lights on and show is on,” Blackwell says. Richard’s longtime keyboard player and friend Ronald “Ron” Jones adds that one day Richard jumped on the piano and played the “alop-bam-boom” riff and his producers asked about the hook they’d never heard before, even though the singer — who died in May 2020 at age 87 of bone cancer — had been using it for years while playing to Black audiences on the Chitlin’ Circuit.
In the episode we hear archival tape of Richard reciting the next two lines in the chorus, “If you want it, you got it/ Tutti-frutti, good booty.” The lyrics, of course, could be interpreted as being about gay sex, laughs Deacon John Moore, a blues musician who recorded with Richard. “They’re not gonna play that on the radio. ‘Tutti-frutti, good booty!’ And everybody knew this ain’t about ice cream!”
The bottom line from Richard’s producer, though, was that regardless of what he was singing about, “Tutti Fruitti” sounded like a slam-dunk hit record. Informed that he would have to clean up the “smutty” lyrics a bit to get airplay, Richard agreed, with Blackwell explaining how they changed the first bit to “tutti frutti, oh rootie,” while adding girls named Sue and Daisy. After two or three takes, history was made.
The PBS doc follows on the heels of producer/director and former label exec Lisa Cortés’ recent doc, Little Richard: I Am Everything, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and has been streaming on Prime Video and Apple TV since April.
Watch the American Masters preview below and watch the full episode on Friday night.
For the better part of the last decade, Grammy-winning rapper Kanye West has become as defined by his problematic antics as he is by his world-class talent. In the June 1 episode of Hulu’s The Kardashians, Kim Kardashian, who divorced Ye in 2021 after seven years of marriage, vented to her mother, Kris Jenner, about the stress and frustration she felt around her ex-husband’s hurtful and conspiratorial claims about her and her family.
The episode picks up where the May 25 season premiere left off, with the reality star saying, “Even how he looks so down on me for my sex tape, brings it up all over town, all over the media. Like, thanks for reminding people once again.” She continued, “All of his shenanigans is gonna be far more damaging to the kids one day than my tape will ever be, and I have to sit here and not say anything, ever, because I know one day my kids will appreciate that. And I know that is the best thing for them.”
Kanye and Kim share four children: North, 9; Saint, 7; Chicago, 5; and Psalm, 4. For Kim, who is set to star in the latest installment of FX’s American Horror Story, protecting their children is her primary concern. In a teary confessional, the SKIMS mogul shared, “I still feel the need to not talk about it and protect it from my kids and I always will feel that way, but God, if people knew … I just would never do that to my kids. It just is really crazy.”
From praising Hitler to revealing deeply intimate details about his marriage to crowds at political rallies, the “Off the Grid” rapper has kept his family in the headlines while simultaneously muddying his reputation and credibility. “Sometimes I feel like if he were to hit rock bottom, that’s his journey that he needs to figure out on his own. I used to run around and call everyone behind his back, and be like, ‘It’s gonna be OK, it’s gonna be OK, don’t worry. Just give him another chance,’” Kim expressed in the episode. “I used to spend hours and hours and hours of my day to be the cleanup crew. I just don’t have that energy.”
When her mother questioned if their children are aware of the drama, Kim responded, “[North] actually doesn’t know and that’s what’s so crazy. When stuff is said, it’s a chain to my whole household. No TV, only Apple TV. I can’t risk an Access Hollywood … or anything on the news coming up with their dad mentioned and they want to watch.” She added, “I have to figure out a way to protect and so they still haven’t seen anything, but then I go into crisis mode.”
In a final confessional on the topic, Kardashian, who was ruled legally single on March 2 of last year, noted: “I’m the one being accused of so many things and being blamed for so many things and it’s really hurtful and it sucks. But, I can control how I react and I can control if I’m a mess, [and] then my kids will see that … I really do believe in my soul that one day, my kids will appreciate my silence, my understanding and my grace, and I will try my hardest to keep it together at all times.”
Kanye “Ye” West has earned four chart-toppers on the Billboard Hot 100 and 10 No. 1 titles on the Billboard 200 including Graduation, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and Donda.
Pride Month has officially arrived, and pop superstar Sam Smith is ready to help you celebrate with a new cover. On Thursday (June 1), Smith unveiled their cover of Christina Aguilera‘s 2002 anthem “Beautiful” exclusively on Amazon Music. Stripped down to focus on Smith’s sonorous vocal and a single guitar, the cover slowly grows, adding […]
Warning: This story contains spoilers for the season 3 finale of Dave.
Dave Burd managed to wrap up the over-the-top third season of his series Dave with the most unexpected, how-did-he-pull-that-off stunt yet. After a two-episode will-they-or-won’t-they arc starring Rachel McAdams as a potential paramour for his rap alter ego Lil Dicky, the just-aired season finale opened with Dicky in bed with McAdams during the video shoot for his homage to The Notebook star, “Mr. McAdams.”
In another scene, Dicky raps, “Maybe I’m your Brad Pitt,” and in keeping with Dave‘s unpredictable, cameo-stuffed run, of course the real Brad Pitt then pops up. But Pitt doesn’t just do a drive-by, he hangs around playing a Brad Pitt type who is interested in getting into the music game only to get stuck in a hostage situation. There’s a shooting accident with a Looking for Love prop crossbow and an escape thanks to bear mace and Dave’s $7,000 set doll.
But the most important question is: How did they get Pitt? (And Drake, for that matter.)
Star Burd and co-star GaTa spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about the surprise superstar cameos and why they decided to keep Pitt’s fate a secret.
“There was a lot of debate about how to play it. We even shot several versions of that outcome with Drake with us talking about, ‘Oh, he’s dead’ and like, ‘No, he’s alive,’” said Burd. “We had every iteration at our fingertips, but I chose to keep it slightly ambiguous. For me, as a viewer, if you look closely as the paramedics are running in, you can kind of see Brad’s hand go up and start to give the thumbs up. So, I take that as an indication that Brad will live on.”
Even more surprising, after a season-long arc about Dave looking for love on the road, when it comes down to finally going with his heart and trying to make it work with on-and-off girlfriend Robyn — and after Pitt very clearly warned him about the pitfalls of being a star — Dicky decides to chase after Drake rather than settle down with Robyn.
“What a twist, huh? I wanted to do something that was kind of a surprise,” Burd explained. “Not to oversimplify it, but every season we build toward this big decision. Am I going to do the right thing or the wrong thing?… It’s not just throwing [away] love and not learning anything the whole episode. I’ve been looking for love this whole season and I learned through this experience, and through Brad Pitt, that as confident as my character in his own greatness there’s clearly a gaping void in his soul that needs this validation. Until you actually love yourself and remedy yourself of that void, how can you possibly take on the love of another person?”
Burd said as much as he wanted to find love, he looked at letting Robyn go as a sign that he wasn’t ready for it yet. “That awareness was at the core of that final decision. I think I learned the lessons and was aware enough to realize that’s not where I was yet. So, in the meantime, I’m going to go to Drake,” he said.
As for Pitt’s near-death crossbow incident, GaTa said he never expected to be in that situation. “I was like, ‘Wow, this is crazy. We got Brad Pitt on Pro Tools with auto-tune AND we ’bout to kill this man?,’” he said. “I still can’t believe it. It’s just surreal even talking about it, like we got Brad Pitt doing all this stuff. It’s crazy.”
Asked how he keeps pulling off such amazing cameos — this season also featured Usher, Don Cheadle, Killer Mike, Demi Lovato, Jack Harlow, Rick Ross and many more — while keeping the Pitt pop-in secret, it all comes down to Burd’s persuasive letter-writing according to showrunner Jeff Schaffer. Earlier this year he told THR that he and the show’s other producers thought it was a bridge too far at first.
“None of us thought it was going to work, except Dave,” Schffer said while giving props to Burd’s big ideas. It also helped that two-time Oscar winner Pitt was reportedly a fan of the show. “It really speaks to the greatness of the show that all three of them just independently are huge fans of the show. Everyone who works on the show should feel like they got Brad and Rachel and Drake,” Burd explained. “The reason we got them is because they loved the first two seasons of the show.”
The rapper had never met McAdams or Pitt before, but he’d heard through the grapevine that they were fans. “It was a little reckless to anchor an entire three episode arc with Rachel McAdams and an entire finale on Brad Pitt, but for the themes that we’re talking about there is no one better,” he said, admitting that Drizzy was an especially big swing, since the MC had not done TV since his early days as a teen actor on Degrassi: The Next Generation from 2001-2008 playing Jimmy Brooks.
“What better representation of like hopeless romanticism and love is there than Rachel McAdams, who was like my generation’s dream woman and who has been in films that have totally defined my interpretation of what love is supposed to be? Same with Brad Pitt. What better person to teach you a lesson about fame and validation than like the star of all stars, Brad Pitt? Drake is like the top of the mountain top musically and as a rapper. I had met Drake and he pulled me aside and told me the show is one of the more important shows of our generation and I knew he was a fan.”
This Pride Month, Billboard asked artists to write a series of love letters to their LGBTQ fans, highlighting what the community means to them, as people and as artists. Below, Chappell Roan recalls finding herself in the queer community and being able to finally tell herself “Thank God I’m gay.” Explore Explore See latest videos, […]
This Pride Month, Billboard asked artists to write a series of love letters to their LGBTQ fans, highlighting what the community means to them, as people and as artists. Below, Hope Tala rejoices in the queer community’s ability “to be endlessly varied, containing every kind of multitude,” even in a world “that increasingly feels like a dystopia.”
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The first time I can remember hearing the word ‘gay,’ I was eight or nine years old, playing in the sunshine the morning after a sleepover. I asked one of my friends what it meant and received a child’s definition — ‘when a boy kisses another boy’, whispered in my ear like it was something bad.
I was shocked; this concept was so far outside my understanding of how the world worked that it had never even occurred to me that it could happen in a way that wasn’t familial or platonic. I had never encountered anything that resisted the idea that a woman should be with a man so I didn’t consider that ‘gay’ could have anything to do with me until I was fourteen and began spending copious amounts of time trying desperately to locate that newly discovered part of myself externally.
Eleven years later, through the world’s progress (however insufficient it has been) and the intentional reconstruction of my own world, I’m now able to see and feel queerness everywhere. It was always there, of course, just not in my line of sight. The wonder of it still feels astonishing, the comfort immense.
In a world that increasingly feels like a dystopia where the political right is bent on destroying it, the queer community continues to be endlessly varied; powerful and vulnerable all at once, containing every kind of multitude. I am grateful to know queer people closely and from far away; to be inspired by them, to be able to live through the knowledge that they are thriving, laughing, crying, hurting, resisting, making food and mistakes and love and art absolutely everywhere. Now this thing that often felt like a source of fear and ostracization, separating me from the world I had always known, has brought me closer to the community I was always supposed to be a part of and the person I really want to be.
This Pride Month, Billboard asked artists to write a series of love letters to their LGBTQ fans, highlighting what the community means to them, as people and as artists. Below, Isaac Dunbar breaks down a lifetime of being “inspired by queerness,” and offers a message of encouragement to his queer fans: “Don’t mind the commentary, […]
A new feature-length documentary detailing the story behind the ill-fated, chart-topping pop duo Milli Vanilli is coming to Paramount+. The project, simply titled Milli Vanilli, will make its world premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival on June 10 before arriving on the streaming service in the fall. After rocky upbringings in Germany, Robert Pilatus […]
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The weather is starting to heat up! Spring temperatures are climbing in some states and the summer is expected to be even hotter.
If you plan to attend music festivals, concerts and other outdoor activities this summer, a portable fan should be on your list of seasonal must-haves. Below, we’ve put together a short roundup of portable, handheld fans that are small enough to bring to music festivals and more.
Although portable fans are available at several major retailers — Amazon, Target and Walmart, to name a few — the roundup below features Amazon-only products priced between $10-$32. Amazon Prime members get free and fast shipping on millions of items. Not a member? Click here to start your free 30-day trial.
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For more festival gear, check our lists of venue-approved bags, the best earplugs for concerts and our picks for the best gear to buy for Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo and other music festivals.
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TriPole Mini Handheld Fan Battery Operated Small Personal Portable Fan
$13.99 $19.99 30% OFF
You might be surprised at the wind capacity of this cute but powerful mini fan from TriPole. The handheld, lightweight, mini-fan has two speeds and measures 6.7 inches long. The battery-operated fan works for up to three and a half hours before it needs to be recharged. The fan is available in a handful of colors including blue, black, yellow, pink and white.
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JISULIFE Portable Handheld Fan, Mini Pocket Hand Fan
$14.39 $24.99 42% OFF
Stay cool and charge your phone with this two-speed, convertible pocket fan. The Jisulife Portable Handheld Mini Fan has a battery life of 14-21 hours, a maximum rotating speed of 3400 rpm, and it’s around the same size as a credit card. This fan is also on sale at Walmart.
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Formano Handheld Cooling Fan – The GENUINE Portable Air Conditioner Cooling Fan That Blows Cold Air with Ice Cooling Refrigerating Pad
$24.99
It takes just 10 seconds for this handheld fan to reach a cool 53 degrees. Three speeds of powerful wind and a built-in ceramic, semi-conductor radiator naturally converts hot air into cold. The fan measures seven inches long and approximately three inches wide; it has a 5400 rpm high-speed motor and 2000mAh rechargeable battery. Save $5 on this Formano fan when you apply the instant coupon at checkout.
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JISULIFE Portable Neck Fan, Hands Free Bladeless Fan
$31.99 $39.99 20% OFF
Not interested in a handheld device? Try a portable neck fan! The Jisulife Portable Neck Fan has 78 air outlets to keep your neck cool in hot temps. The three-speed neck fan is dust and sweat proof; it’s built with a 270-degree air supply angle and works for up to 16 hours at a time. Made from eco-friendly ABS and silicone, this portable neck fan is available in green, blue, black, yellow, pink or white.