Matchbox Twenty's Rob Thomas reacts to Ryan Gosling's cover of Push in the Greta Gerwig-directed Barbie movie.
, Thomas was asked how he reacted to Barbie’s use of Push, a song released in 1997 he co-wrote alongside Matt Serletic.
“I want to preface this by saying that I thought it was hilarious,” Thomas answered. “But in Bring It On, has this douchey boyfriend. And there’s a scene where he was in his dorm room with a Matchbox Twenty poster in the background. There was a whole period during the ‘90s where the more successful we got, the bigger target we were. We were an easy takedown.
“When I got the call for Barbie, they told me, ‘Ken’s by the fireside, he’s playing the song and it’s his favorite band.’ So I did this thinking I’d be the butt of the joke, and I was fine with that. I’m pretty thick-skinned. But Julie Greenwald came to the Hollywood Bowl a month or two ago. She had just seen the movie and was like, ‘You come out of it loving Ken and loving Push.’ And I was like, ‘Aww.
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