“One of my favorite things … is this last line that goes, ‘My name’s Ken / And so am I.’ It’s so stupid, it’s the worst syntax.”
You said you took on the project because you were really excited about working with Greta and Noah Baumbach. When they first reached out, what was your understanding of why they wanted Mark Ronson to work on this?
“Dance the Night” was written for Dua Lipa, whom you’ve worked with before. It feels like a continuation of the dance direction she took onI want to correct this, because we didn’t write it for Dua — we wrote the music and then she wrote the song with Caroline Ailin. I’ve worked with Dua, but I’m also a fan of Dua’s records; I’m a DJ, so I play Dua records. It’s all mixed up in the soup. So I’m sure there’s somewhere where Dua and I have similar influences.
In the studio with Ryan, it was really his performance that lifted the whole thing. All these lines that felt a little bit throwaway-ish, delivered by him, suddenly took on much more. I knew he was a good singer, but because I’d never made anything like this before, I hadn’t accounted for what he would actually bring to the performance emotionally. Then it kept getting a little more ridiculous in the best way.
We had a hard time cracking the code at first. I only had two days, she was about to go back on tour or play the Grammys or some shit. Halfway through the second day, I was just like,. Lizzo said, “You know what? Throw this picture up again.” And she’s like, “Play the track.” And she just starts narrating what’s going on on the screen. Like, “Hey, Barbie.”
The soundtrack’s very referential with the other flips too, like Charli doing “Mickey” or the Gayle song that updates “Butterfly,” by Crazy Town. Were those coming from the artists or was there an idea of,That was really just from the artists. The only thing with Gayle specifically was that we had “Butterfly” in the film at one point.
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