It started as a song and turned into a whole movie. Greta Gerwig originally asked Mark Ronson to help out with a song as rehearsals were about to begin for the big dance sequence that takes place early in “Barbie” — but before his work on the film was done, he’d recruited his friend and colleague Andrew Wyatt, and they’d written a couple of songs, helped compile a couple of soundtrack albums and cowritten the film’s score.
“It was trial and error for hours and days and weeks,” Wyatt said. “We were trying to serve the picture, drawing on the sum total of all our knowledge about harmony and tempo and drama and emotion, and trying to put it all into these idiosyncratic moments that the director has created.
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