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gaybarbiegirl · 3 years

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00s Barbie rewatch - 12 Dancing Princesses (2006)

Yesss I've been looking forward to this one

The intro of this movie >>>>>>

"Which is known for its abundance of pears, potatoes and peasants" underrated joke right there

We love a movie that shows princesses being fun and charismatic and unique instead of just being graceful and sweet

Ok but that bird is iconic, he deserves more love

Imagine having eleven people tease you about your love life, I think I'd just die on the spot

Why do most Barbie villains have gigantic hair?

THE CINEMATOGRAPHY

Someone really should tell mattel that being identical in every feature except for haircolor is not how twins and triplets work

Love how the main villain of this movie is one of these classist conservative ladies who try to control how women should act. Like, that is something that should be portrayed as a terrible thing to children, you know?

Why do they all wear bows to sleep?

Their birthday song ❤

How did they never notice that the books matched the stones before? They've owned these books and lived in this room for years

This theme song is so magical

Mood

Thank god Genevieve suggested they call a doctor. Bring in the common sense, girl

God, Rowena is so worried about the girls potentially marrying princes that they would've met the night before. Like, chill, it's been less than 24 hours, I doubt anyone's ringing wedding bells.

I know I was just trashing on Rowena a minute ago, but she really is the most efficient villain in the BCU. Like, she's the one with the most coherent and doable plan, and the one who comes the closest to succeeding

"Lock her up and throw away the key" I'm dead, the comedic timing of this bird is unmatched

BEST DANCE SEQUENCE OF THE MOVIE YESS

See, this is why I love Edeline

You know how everyone says that there are twelve dancing princesses, so at least one of them has to be gay? I have now decided that there are three gay princesses, Blair, Edeline, and Fallon, for no good reason other than that I think they're cool

Felix being a 10/10 sidekick again

But it is a little weird that Derek's best friend is a parrot

Holy fuck, Rowena just called this man's children burdens to his face

I'm not sure if I respect her more or less for it

"Newsflash. She walked in her own room" I'm telling you, this bird is a gem

"You did...? Or is that just the bird talking?" more respect for Felix, please

Yeah, Rowena has the right idea, I don't understand why the girls haven't started harvesting those wish flowers yet

Ok but why do they suddenly have to dance in pairs for the portal to work? It always worked fine with just one person

Their dancing is really pretty though

This scene looks so gorgeous ❤

What does "the power of twelve" mean? Wouldn't it be easier to just say "we have each other"?

When did Rowena find the time to get this painted?

Look at them using the skills they were reprimanded for in the beginning of the movie to save the day! Hell yeah, good for them!

Rowena WHY are you confessing?? I get he's about to die, but still, keep it to yourself

But seriously, Rowena could have been the Barbie villain if she just had a more likeable personality. She's got everything else going for her: she's the smartest, most capable and most strategic villain in the BCU, and she has style. If only she wasn't annoying...

Why did Genevieve just randomly have a fan with her?

Also, what would have happened if the fan didn't reach every single speck of dust? Would Genevieve have like, an eternally dancing arm?

Yeah man, you were pretty blind

Their dad accepting them as they are is a really sweet scene, though

I have to say, ending in a wedding was a bit of a disappointing note. Genevieve and Derek were cute, but they barely knew each other

Plus, this ending only wraps things up for Genevieve, and I get it, she's the protagonist, but she did have eleven sisters who we've also been following for the entire movie, and they deserved a proper ending, you know?

Final thoughts:

I like this movie A LOT. It's one of my top 10 Barbie movies, and for more than one reason: I love the soundtrack, love the dance sequences, love the bond between the sisters, and, most of all, I love the theme and the way the princesses were portrayed.

Like, princess movies are very often criticised for having bland one note protagonists who lack agency, and while I don't 100% agree with these criticisms, I do see where they're coming from. Now enter this movie, that does the exact opposite. We've got twelve different princesses here, all with different skills and abilities that are portrayed as equally valuable and impressive. They're fun to watch, they have distinctive personalities, and they take the lead and are active characters for the entire movie.

Since we know for a fact that the little girls who watch Barbie movies are going to be looking up to the princess characters, I think it's great to show them a bunch of princesses with unique personalities and interests. It gives every kid someone to relate to, instead of just potentially making girls feel inadequate for not being "princessy" enough. And if that wasn't enough, the main conflict we have in this movie is that their father is trying to change them to be more ladylike, and the whole ordeal is clearly treated as a big, terrible mistake from start to finish.

I could gush for hours about how great and unique this theme is, and about how important it is for movies that are aimed at little girls to portray this sort of message. But I'm just gonna wrap things up and say that overall, this movie is amazing, and it deserves all the love it gets.

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Grace Hartigan’s “Barbie”

This essay was written in 2012

Opinion alert — Jackson Pollock is the most famous Abstract Expressionist painter. Fact alert — it was in New York City that Pollock and the other artists associated with this new movement blossomed. The “Irascibles,’ as they were dubbed, began to shake up the art world with their new philosophy and aesthetic. The novelty of Abstract Expressionism was powerful enough from the beginning to draw in a younger group of artists. Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Sam Francis, and Grace Hartigan are a few of the artists known as the second generation New York School. Despite her young age, Hartigan was deep in the Cedar Tavern circle and was considered a friend by Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko, Kline, etc. Curious and observant, Hartigan looked outward at her surrounding physical, social, and political world for inspiration. She began to paint a combination of what she saw and what she felt. Her commentary on daily life is the leading characteristic of her work. Her paintings such as Barbie have been interpreted as feminist precursors to pop art, but in reality, Hartigan did not ally herself with either feminism or pop art. For Barbie the output is a statement about the contemporary ‘60’s society. This painting and the great majority of her other works are musings on life and should be viewed the same way one reads poetry. A complete interpretation can only be accurately made by considering her own words as well as clues from her life’s story.

Hartigan was born on March 28, 1922 in New Jersey. She was greatly influenced by her aunt, an english schoolteacher who piqued her interest in writing and theatre which lasted all through high school. She married at age 18 and ended up in California after she and her husband ran out of money on their way to Alaska. They lived there several years with their newborn son until World War II broke out. They decided to move back east where he was then drafted. She began to take night classes to learn drawing and painting and got a job as a draftsman. She fell in love with Matisse after being introduced to book of his work and immediately began seeking out a way to paint like him. She then began to study under Ike Muse and moved to New York with him after she and her husband split. Not much time passed before she and Muse split also and she began to support herself with a “life of total poverty but meeting all marvelous, exciting people.”1 This is a reference to the collection of artists and writers who patronized the Cedar Tavern in the 40’s and 50’s. She visited Pollock’s and de Kooning’s studios and began the journey headfirst into pure Abstract Expressionism which solidified her status in the group as well as Clement Greenberg’s approval. Her first few works in ’49 and ’50 were very gestural and resembled the flat, all over composition of Pollock’s work. This only lasted a couple years before she began to slowly introduce representational elements that are very similar to the figures in de Kooning’s Woman paintings. A key factor in this change was her growing relationship with the poet Frank O’Hara. Hartigan’s childhood love for literature re-blossomed vicariously through O’Hara who dedicated several poems to her. In 1952 O’Hara gave a series of twelve poems called Oranges, Sweet, a Dozen to Hartigan who then turned them into her Orange paintings. This rebellion against Greenberg allowed her to extend her boundaries and begin to develop her own identity as a painter. Her first step was to look back at the Masters like Velasquez, Goya, and Rubens all the while keeping Matisse and the Abstract Expressionist aesthetic in mind. She then began to look outward in the exploration of her world, New York City. For several decades she painted shopping malls, billboards, vendors, shop windows, and anything else that caught her eye and stimulated her mind. Hartigan was overflowing with material that she felt compelled to paint. Throughout the ‘60’s she pulled out all the stops and painted everything from mythical creatures and gods, Marilyn Monroe, lily ponds, human emotions, and Barbie dolls. The only reoccurring visual elements are the gestural forms that came from her Abstract Expressionist background and the bold use of color drawn from her love for Fauvism. This inconsistency of subject matter is the first clue as to Hartigan’s thought processes.

The mistake that critics and historians too often make is the lack of attention paid to Hartigan’s body of work as a whole. When they step back and get the big picture view, they consider it for a couple of minutes and quickly conclude that, “She has reached for new ideas so often that she has no signature style.”2 Naturally at this conclusion, they are forced to focus on individual paintings or small series of them. Unsurprisingly, the interpretations of Hartigan’s Barbie paintings are straightforward and superficial.

The Barbie doll made her debut in 1959 and it was not long before Mattel, Inc. began receiving criticism for the doll’s negative body image. The doll has often been used as a symbol for the unacceptable image of women portrayed in pop-culture. When Hartigan painted Barbie in the heat of the controversy, many people, both feminists and non-feminists, assumed that she was making a feminist statement. The well-informed researcher might also argue his/her point with evidence that Hartigan originally signed her paintings as “George Hartigan” for her first few shows. This has been taken as a statement of the difficulty for women artists to succeed in the world of Abstract Expressionism. However, both of these arguments can be easily refuted by Hartigan’s own words. She has repeatedly denied having any feminist sentiments and even supported Pollock by saying, “The myth I find most infuriating is the one of Jackson Pollock as brawling, woman-hating, drunk and macho. The man was tender, suffering- an inarticulate, shy genius, but people don’t want to hear that about Jackson.”3 When asked why she signed her work “George Hartigan” she replied, “Because I identified with George Sand and George Eliot — they were my heroes. The real story is I had gay friends who all had female names amongst themselves and I thought it would be fun to have a man’s name.”4

The argument that Hartigan’s work is a precursor to Pop art has greater merit, but still doesn’t go much deeper than the paint on the canvas. Nevertheless, Hartigan did paint an abstract work titled, Billboard which can be compared to James Rosenquist’s work, and a couple of paintings of Marilyn Monroe which invariably conjures Warhol’s ghost. These images in addition to the Barbie doll are unquestionable pop culture icons. One can easily imagine Barbie as the subject of a Warhol painting and should not be surprised that he did indeed use the child’s toy in a series of prints. Warhol’s Barbie is very different from Hartigan’s however. In her essay, which analyzes Hartigan’s work, Melody Davis points out that, “Pop art is typically hard-edged, cool, acrylic-painted, repetitive and de-personalized.”5 This is the antithesis to Hartigan’s work. In response to this new aesthetic, she made an unapologetic statement in the 60’s saying, “Pop art is not painting, because painting must have content and emotion.”6 Similar to the contrast between the quality of a hand crafted table that exudes warmth from the carpenter’s personal touch and the mass-produced particle board piece made by machines and sold in an IKEA store, so is the unfriendly relationship of Hartigan and Pop art. It is not uncommon to see the subject of Barbie in everyday life, but just as Dutch genre painting is not Pop art, neither is Hartigan’s work.

Instead, the individual work is one of social commentary. Referring to the Barbie doll, Hartigan made this statement, “I’m very interested in dolls of all cultures, because a doll is an essence, really, of what society thinks you should present to your little girls, about what they’re supposed to plan for, how they’re supposed to think about themselves. And if you’re supposed to think about yourself as a bride that deserves a $100 dress and you only cost $15 and your husband is a castrated man, boy, that tells you something about American morals!”7 Hartigan painted what she saw around her. When she walked throughout New York City she painted vendors and shop windows. When she studied the masters at the MET she painted the scenes and figures that excited her. When she noticed a changing country she painted a doll that symbolized a part of it. Hartigan was not supporting or criticizing mass production, mass marketing, or mass media. She was taking input, processing it, and then giving output. Hartigan explains, “I try to declaw the terribleness of popular culture and turn it into beauty or meaning.”8 Now a motive fueling her creative machine becomes apparent. By zooming out and viewing the entirety of her life and work, we see that Hartigan takes both the ugly and mundane as well as the beautiful and exciting and gives them a poetic quality. This should not be a surprise, given her love for literature as a child, her very close relationships with the poets who patronized the Cedar Tavern (O’Hara in particular), and her “heroes,” the novelists Eliot and Sand. For the final piece of evidence let’s again consider Hartigan’s own words, “As most painting moves closer to sculpture and architecture, my own work moves nearer poetry…It increasingly must be ‘read’ in terms of meaning and metaphor.”9 Hartigan’s bold colors, gestural brushwork, and expression through abstraction are some of the tools she employs to give emotional life to the content that she chooses to paint. The successful viewer is the one who does indeed “read” her paintings. Poetry and Hartigan’s work are musings on life.

With a creative career that lasted over half a century, Hartigan produced a large body of paintings and prints. She did not stray far from her aesthetic, yet changes throughout the decades are visible and tell her life’s story like rings in a tree. Her experiences at the Cedar Tavern were truly invaluable and would cause envy in any historian. Unfortunately, she has been misunderstood a great deal too much. Barbie should be read as a poem, and not as Pop art or feminist art. Only then can one fully appreciate the creative mind of Grace Hartigan.

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Gibson, Ann Eden. Abstract expressionism: other politics. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.

Hartigan, Grace, interview by Julie Haifley. May 10, 1979.

Hartigan, Grace, interview by Jonathan VanDyke. February 12, 2000.

Hobbs, Robert. 1995. “Grace Hartigan: A Painter’s World by Robert Saltonstall Mattison: Reviewed by Robert Hobbs.” Woman’s Art Journal , Vol. 16, №2 (Autumn, 1995 — Winter, 1996), pp. 42–44. JSTOR (accessed October 18, 2012).

Jachec, Nancy. The Philosophy and Politics of Abstract Expressionism: 1940–1960. Cambridge [u.a.: Cambridge Univ., 2000.

Kunitz, Daniel. “Gallery chronicle.” New Criterion 20, no. 3 (November 2001): 51–54. Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson), EBSCOhost (accessed October 19, 2012).

Landau, Ellen G… Reading abstract expressionism. New Haven: Yale, 2005.

Lavazzi, Thomas. 2000. “Lucky Pierre Gets into Finger Paint: Grace Hartigan and Frank O’Hara’s Oranges.” Aurora: The Journal Of The History Of Art 1, 122–137. Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson), EBSCOhost (accessed October 18, 2012).

Lord, M. G.. Forever Barbie: the unauthorized biography of a real doll. New York: Morrow and Co., 1994.

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Shapiro, David, and Cecile Shapiro.Abstract expressionism: a critical record. Cambridge [England: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

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Sex And The City: The 10 Best Outfits, Ranked | ScreenRant

Sex and the City is all about love. Love of friendship, love of romance, love of NYC, and (most importantly) love of fashion. The characters on the HBO series wear clothing that is so unforgettable and iconic that we had to go and make a list of the best outfits worn on the show. Whether it's Carrie's spunky tutu skirts or Charlotte's classy sundresses that channel Liz Taylor, each character offers incredible ensembles throughout the series that inspire us to empty our wallets and update our closets.

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So without further ado, here are the 10 best outfits on SATC, ranked.

10 ABS FOR DAYS

Okay, so we totally had to put this look on the list just because of SJP's abs. Plank, much?

In this scene, Carrie and Aiden have just gotten back together after their messy split, and our favorite sex columnist has to work to win back the affection of her man. Although it takes more than a killer outfit to fix a broken relationship, her look here definitely helps. Look at how gorgeous this woman is! Can she please teach us her magic? Aiden was clearly a fool for flirting it up with that other woman at the bar while his girlfriend was standing there in that outfit, looking like a perfect ten. No wonder she dumped him.

9 SAMANTHA'S CLASSY AND BOLD LOOK

That brilliant yellow coat could stop New York City traffic! The PR queen surely knows how to dress with a mixture of sophistication and playfulness which perfectly sums up her character as a whole. While Samantha may often present herself as a woman who is only looking for a good time, we learn throughout the course of the series that she is so much more than that.

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She cares deeply about her friends and she will do absolutely whatever it takes to be the most successful businesswoman in all of Manhatten. Her colorful yellow jacket proves she can be fun and daring while the black dress adds a poised look to the whole ensemble. This is the perfect look for Samantha Jones who is as elegant as she is spontaneous.

8 ICONIC CARRIE BRADSHAW

This look screams "Carrie Bradshaw" in the best way possible. Carrie's got a thing for tutu skirts, most likely because they make her look like the fashion princess that she is. If we spotted her on the streets of New York we would question whether or not she's royalty. She surely dresses as though she belongs in a castle! The best part about Carrie's classic style is that we know that she isn't dressing for anyone else.

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She's not dressing for Mr. Big, she's not dressing for Aiden, and she's not dressing for her friends. Carrie Bradshaw dresses purely for herself and that is what makes her looks so memorable and praised. It takes guts to dress in such a bold manner which is what makes her 10 times better than it already is. And it's already pretty amazing.

7 BUSINESS MEETS BARBIE

Charlotte's look is the epitome of Barbie in a businesswoman outfit, and we're obsessed. How cute can an outfit get? It makes us smile just looking at this getup! We're getting serious Elle Woods vibes here as well, which is definitely not a bad thing. All Charlotte needs is her own little dog to snuggle up inside her purse.

Now that we think about it, she does have an adorable Cavalier King Charles Spaniel named Elizabeth Taylor. Her puppy would totally complete this bubbly look, but hey, we're not complaining. Charlotte York-Goldenblatt looks as poised and perfect as ever.

6 RAINBOW QUEEN

There's nothing like a dress that is accentuated with vibrant splashes of color. This playful dress reminds us a lot of Carrie's personality, which is far from boring or average. In fact, Carrie is pretty much the opposite of boring and average, which is why this dress works so perfectly for the New York writer.

It's essential to find outfits that can mesh well with your personality because something as simple as your clothes can give people an idea of what you're all about. Clearly, Carrie is all about excitement and fun!

5 ONLY CARRIE CAN PULL THIS LOOK OFF

Here's Carrie, back at it again with the killer abs! Carrie Bradshaw invented the long skirt/crop top combo look and she owns it. This isn't the kind of outfit worn by the timid, so she proves to the world that she's open-minded. All we can say is if Mr. Big and Aiden saw her in that outfit, they'd be dueling each other for Carrie's hand in marriage right then and there. All of Big's commitment issues would totally go down the drain if he spotted Ms. Bradshaw in this iconic getup.

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We apologize for the extensive use of the word "iconic," but it's difficult not to use this word when referring to Carrie Bradshaw's style. Thank for your patience.

4 TOO ELEGANT FOR WORDS

Carrie looks absolutely breathtaking in this sundress with the perfect charm necklace to complete the look. Our favorite fashion guru looks so elegant in this outfit which gives off 1960s vintage vibes reminiscent of Mad Men. All we can say is Betty Draper would certainly give her nod of approval to this classically feminine look.

It reminds us of an outfit all of the famous fashion starlets of our time would wear. We could see Jackie Kennedy wearing this, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, and Elizabeth Taylor. The point is, it's a timeless dress that will turn heads until the end of time.

3 FEMININE AND FEARLESS

Carrie is channeling an urban Princess Peach look in this beautiful outfit, complete with a feathered clutch and a flawless smile. Look at how happy SJP seems in this dress. This is the smile of a person who loves the skin they're in. With that sort of confidence, you could rock any look. Luckily, Carrie's confidence allows her to wear such bold outfits that always manage to stand out in a crowd.

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Like some of her previous dresses from above, Carrie clearly isn't afraid to show off outfits that are more vintage than "happening." She doesn't care about what's considered "in." All she cares about is wearing outfits that she feels most beautiful and comfortable in.

2 ELIZABETH TAYLOR WOULD BE PROUD

Charlotte York Goldenblatt proves with her style that "timeless" will always trump "trendy". Since the beginning, Charlotte has always dressed in her classiest and most feminine attire, which is perfect for her specific personality. Her regal sense of style would make Elizabeth Taylor (Charlotte's idol) so proud!

She's clearly the more reserved and uppity of the bunch, yet her outfits prove you can look conservative and sexy all at once. The outfit that she rocks here from the Sex and the City movie is the obvious star of the entire film... Sorry SJP.

1 ONLY IN PARIS...

Remember when Carrie moved to Paris with "The Russian" aka Aleksandr Petrovsky? She thought her move to the greatest city in Europe would be all baguettes and romance, but instead, it turned out to be a living nightmare. Carrie felt completely alone and isolated because she couldn't speak the language of everyone else in the city and her boyfriend was too busy taking her for granted to notice her flawless gown. There's nothing worse than getting all dressed up to go nowhere, and that is exactly what Carrie does in this scene.

She may be heartbroken, but at least she's radiant- all thanks to that beautiful dress. Where does one get a dress like that? We're dying to know.

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Top 10 Gayest Barbie Movies

As promised, the Top 10 of Barbie movies, ranked by gayness. Granted, I need to preface this with the fact that the majority of Barbie movies can be read quite gay because they are about very affectionate female friendships, or bitter rivalries turned into very affectionate friendships, and most of the movies don’t even have a canon straight romance, which only adds to it.

10. The Three Musketeers

It’s not the gayest, but I have yet to meet an adaptation of the Musketeers story that wasn’t heavily gay and suggestive toward an OT4, so it had to make this list. Also, while not overly gay in the dynamics between female characters - there are four badass women sword-fighting and kicking ass and Barbie’s outfit from the opening sequence alone is incredibly gay. So this movie, while not necessarily romantically gay, definitely tailored to please the gays.

9. A Christmas Carol

Let me just say, I did not like this movie, but it was still rather gay, considering that Eden Starling (Barbie)’s main motivation and anchor toward the good is her friend Catherine. Their dynamic was, to me, the only saving grace this movie had.

8. Rock ‘n Royals

This was incredibly cute in its dynamics. Not only did Courtney (Barbie) have her own rival-dynamic at the rock camp while Erika had her own rival-dynamic at princess camp (and rival dynamics changing to friendship over the course of the movie is one of the Big Gay moves these movies make), when Erika and Courtney met and found someone to open up to and to confide in, it was very heartfelt and warm.

7. Fairytopia: Mermaidia

As mentioned at the top of this post, many Barbie movies are about rivalries-turned-friendship and you could probably do a Top 10 list of those alone, but only one of those made this list for me - the first one to do this, really, and also the best one.

We have Barbie as Elina, a fairy born without wings who spent her entire first movie fighting to get her wings, and in this movie willingly gives up her wings to trait them for a tail when Nori is in danger.

Nori and Elina start out as “rivals” in a “love triangle”, or so one thinks, while in the end it turns out that Elina was never romantically interested in the abducted prince the two set out to free - she just wanted to go and free her friend. Over the course of the journey, Nori and Elina become friends and save each other’s lives.

6. Mariposa and the Fairy Princess

Honestly, the entire point of this story was Mariposa (Barbie) and Princess Catania’s relationship. This is a little bit like Romeo and Juliet but with fairies and without death, because they’re from two warring fairy races and Mariposa is sent as an ambassador to try and rekindle things for their people.

Princess Catania is immediately kind toward Mariposa and interested in her. The two share their love for books and history, they exchange expensive and valuable gifts after a date day out in the city.

And then there is the grand gala, where Catania, due to being too afraid to fly, can’t dance in the air like the other fairies, so Mariposa goes to the ground and asks Catania for a dance. The two become the center of attention of the ball and everyone joins them on the dancefloor in what has been a romantic scene in basically every straight movie featuring a ball ever.

Also, at the finale of the movie, Barbie traits her dark-pink wings in for lesbian-flag colored wings, which do go so well with the purple of Catania. There’s a theme in these Barbie movies, where Barbie is always pink and very often pink-orange in the lesbian-flag colors, while her best friend slash rival slash female love interest is either blue, or purple, or flat-out in the bisexual flag colors.

What I’m saying is Barbie is a lesbian icon and she has a thing for gorgeous bisexuals. And no, you can not change my mind.

5. Dolphin Magic

Another movie about Barbie and her mermaid girlfriend! Isla is a mermaid spending the first half of the movie pretend to be human as she is on a mission to free a captive dolphin. It is incredibly charming to watch Barbie show Isla human things (up above her showing Isla human food).

And honestly, there is no heterosexual explanation for that scene above, because you can climb onto a stone casually as friends, or you can slowly crawl back while your girlfriend crawles toward you in a very very gay way.

Every interaction between them is very... close and downright intimate, not to mention how they look at each other - and then there is the fact that Ken is in this movie, but explicitely introduced as a friend with zero heterosexual romantic subplot in the entire movie.

4. Star Light Adventure

This one, just like Dolphin Magic, were hard for me to put this far down at the list because out of all Barbie movies Isla/Barbie and Sal-Lee/Barbie may just be my personal OTPs. But since I’m going by gayness level overall and not personal favorite ship, there are certain movies that have to be higher ranked than them.

Still, the dynamic between Sal-Lee and Barbie is absolutely amazing, right from that first meeting where Barbie fangirls and is all up in Sal-Lee’s face. The premise is that Sal-Lee and Barbie are part of a five person team sent out to save the galaxy, while Sal-Lee and Barbie are set up with the potential of being rivals since they are hired for the same skill, but while there is some healthy competitiveness they hit it off pretty much from the get-go and Sal-Lee shows quite the protectiveness over Barbie, standing up for her.

3. The Pink Shoes

And we’ve officially entered the Top 3. This one has the added bonus of being... double gay, I suppose? For the first time, there’s actually the potential for a male gay romance in this movie too, with the above shown Hilarion/Albrecht.

We have Barbie as Kristin, a ballerina who goes onto a magical adventure with her best friend Hayley. There are a total of four (4) potential male love interests for Barbie in this movie and... yet there is no actual romance. We start the journey with the two girls meeting the two guys above and my brain immediately went “oh yay. Heteronormativity of Two Girls meeting Two Guys and ending up in Two Couples”. But that was not the case, instead the two guys who started out as rivals spend the movie bonding with each other and becoming friends.

All the while, Hayley gets abducted by the evil Snow Queen - which is the part that goes to the love interest in the actual Snow Queen so there is that - and Kristen is absolutely distraught and goes on the journey to save her. The classic “save the damsel in distress” quest that’s usually reserved for lovers.

2. The Princess and the Pauper

An absolute Barbie classic - and well-deserving of that second place. I thought I was going to end up making too many GIFs about this one, because it’s so gay but then there is actually a montage in the movie with literally their gayest moments - the awestruck first meeting, dancing in the square together and then getting ready for their wedding (clearly, to each other). Really, this one GIF sums it up perfectly.

1. The Diamond Castle

I don’t think anyone who watched Barbie movies is surprised by this being number one. It is and always will remain the gayest Barbie movie in existence, until they actually do release one with a canon gay romance in it.

It’s the movie about Barbie as Liana living in a cozy, little cottage with her “best friend” Alexa, sharing a room, making music together, gardening together, finding heart-shaped stones that they turn into engagement necklaces for each other and then going on a journey to free a muse. Really, it’s very gay.

It’s hard to find a gayer metaphor than a rainbow literally dragging the two girls away from their forced heterosexual partners - and yes, the straight is very forced in this movie, they didn’t even care enough to give the guys individual character design or, you know, a personality.

And then there is that scene where they get pretty princess dresses in the colors of the lesbian flag and the bisexual flag. I may joke a lot about gay subtext, but you could genuinely not convince me that there wasn’t a gay woman involved in the making of this movie who went as hard on the subtext as she could without anyone calling her out on it. They literally ride off into the sunset together at the end, even leaving their supposed love interests behind.

And that’s our list. The ten gayest Barbie movies. The color-scheme thing really still baffles me, to be honest. I mean - there’s so many different colors, and yes of course is Barbie pink that one is obvious, but the fact that the girl who is best suited to be her love-interest is always either blue or purple or just both is very peculiar and I like it.

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00s Barbie rewatch - Magic of The Rainbow (2007)

Last movie in the fairytopia series, here we go

I think I should remind you all, we're still dealing with impostor Laverna here. The real, amazing, clever, and complex Laverna died at the end of the original fairytopia

If Elina didn't have wings, this moment with all of the pixies fawning over her could have been such a nice parallel to the beginning of the first movie, when the pixies were mocking her for being wingless

Like, they could have found it extra cool that Elina did all of that without flying, and it would have been such a nice, full circle moment

AZURA AZURA AZURA ❤

My heart just leaps when I see her

Here we go with the impostor again...

Bibble having human teeth is a terrifying concept, actually

I think Elina is more used to Azura's presence now, so she can do more than just stare at her with wide longing eyes when they're together, but she's still very much gay for her

Look at Dandelion getting left behind again, the poor girl

Linden is a good guy, but he and Elina have -3 chemistry, sorry

SUNBURST YESSS

"You must be Elina!" "Yes! Yes, I am" "Bummer, I was hoping you wouldn't show" I love her

Talk to the sparkle, iconic

Characters Elina should kiss in each fairytopia movie: Fairytopia - Dahlia, Mermaidia - Nori, Magic of The Rainbow - Sunburst

I don't like Dizzle, I'm sorry. She's annoying and just brings down Bibble's chaos

I'm just tuning out the fungi scenes at this point

Oh god, I forgot the magic dance thing was canonically called flance

I'm laughing so hard, this has to be the least graceful name I can think of

Flight of spring! Luminescense! Flance...

Is Sunburst that orange guardian's apprentice? He seems to be familiar with her already

Sunburst just had her "okay... my rival's pretty hot though..." moment

You know, this whole thing with the sparkle fairies, the moon fairies, and eventually the butterfly fairies and crystal fairies does raise the question of what type of fairy Elina is. Flower fairy?

I just realised this is the first movie where we see fairies that aren't Laverna actually doing magic. You know, other than simple tricks like making things float

Uuuuuuu Azura is speaking in tongues

Wow, a frog with green hair wearing a purple cape, how unsuspicious

"Did you miss me?" I miss the REAL Laverna, get out of here, impostor

The real Laverna didn't want to destroy fairytopia, she wanted to be loved by fairytopia and used very manipulative means to get that, and that's just so much better and more interesting than this basic ass "I wanna get powerful and destroy the world" impostor

Azura trusts Elina 🥺

"I wish you a completely uneventful evening" I love her I love her I love her

The only thing real Laverna and impostor Laverna have in common is being gay for Elina

ELINA DON'T GO

OH MY GOD THIS IS THE DUMBEST DECISION EVER DON'T GO

ELINA

Ok, let's go over this step by step: she finds a letter from "Laverna" in her room, indicating that she already found a way to get inside the school. Then the letter is telling Elina to go meet her, which would require her to leave her post during the patrol, leaving Sunburst + the other fairies with less protection. And then she just... goes? Immediately?

Like, at least tell someone about the note before you leave so they can replace you in the patrol thing, because Laverna very clearly has access to the place you're all staying in

Also, that could allow the guardians to set up a defense of their own

They're framing this moment as heroic but Elina is just being stupid

And now Azura got hurt because of this! Azura! Hurt!

I'm really mad right now

"Come on, this isn't Elina's fault" yes it is, it's 100% her fault

Listen, I usually love Elina, she's one of my favorite Barbie protagonists. But she was just so dumb in this situation, it actually feels pretty out of character

Impostor Laverna is just a real Laverna fangirl

Training montage, here we go

Elina's dancing looks so cute 🥺

The real Laverna didn't want to defeat Elina, she wanted to kiss her right on the lips, and that's so much better than what we have now

Yess, you rescued her, now kiss!

Enchantress are you dumb?

The real Laverna wanted the people to choose her to be in power, she wanted to be wanted, and that was just... so much better... so much...

This climax is weirdly anticlimactic

Laverna went from being a huge lesbian who flirted with Every Single female guardian + Elina on movie one to her last words being "I hate rainbows" on movie three... this is a hate crime

I'm sorry if I'm being annoying with the whole Laverna thing, but I'll never get over her character assassination in mermaidia and magic of the rainbow

That's why I literally assassinated her character in my hc and decided this is an impostor

The rainbow transformation looks really awkward, I'm sorry. I'm sure there was a better way to do this rainbow theme

I'm tempted to redesign it now

YESS AZURA'S FINE, THANK GOD

"Easy. Laverna was nice to me 😊" yess now kiss

This one is not my favorite movie... but hey, at least it was nice to see Azura again

Final thoughts:

I'm sorry to say it, but I feel like this is the weakest movie in the fairytopia series. It has a lot of the same problems as mermaidia (like the weaker conflict and plot, the destruction of Laverna's character, etc), but while mermaidia had the amazing character dynamic between Elina and Nori to make up for it, this movie doesn't have anything like that.

The only new side character who really adds anything to the story is Sunburst, but even then, she's kidnapped halfway through the movie and doesn't show up for a huge chunk of it, which I think was a real waste. Her and Elina had some really good chemistry, and I wish we got to see more of them together. As for the other apprentices, Glee and Linden were basically just Elina stans, and the others were just there to fill up space.

Speaking of Elina, I'm not a big fan of how she was written in this movie. One of Elina's biggest strenghts, in my opinion, is her strong sense of self. Sure, she's a little insecure at the start of fairytopia due to being wingless and all, but she still carries herself with dignity, and by the end of the movie she learns to be proud of who she is. In mermaidia, her character arc seems pretty much done, she's a lot more confident than before, and the movie basically serves to reinforce Elina's sense of self, since that's what grants her a happy ending with the true self berry thing. But here she's more insecure than ever before, doubting herself at every turn, saying word by word "what if I'm not good enough to fit in?", and stuff like that. And now I'm just wondering not only where her character development went, but also how we ended up further back than where we started. Also, I'll refrain from commenting on how the previously clever and observant Elina fell for the world's most obvious trap in this movie.

I don't want this to come off like I hate this movie, because I don't. It's a solid mid tier movie for me, like a 6/10. But compared to the great fairytopia movies that came before, this one is really lacking, and that makes me feel very frustrated and ranty. Basically, I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed.

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