'I was a kid who wasn't allowed to play with Barbies. As an adult, she was somebody who, for drag, was this endless spout of inspiration,' Trixie Mattel says
Barbie is short for Barbara so that would be Barbie’s real name, or first name before she was Barbie. For the look of Trixie for this record, I went back to my original sketches of what Trixie looked like, which was this sort of ’60s beach bunny with a super dark tan and a super dark sense of humor.
I’ve lived in California for a year now, and it’s like living in perpetual summer. I had the idea for this record to be my first California record that’s really about … things being beautiful, time doesn’t really move, no one ages here, seasons never change. Side B is a little more classic Trixie, a little more storyteller kind of folk music. Side A is so glossy and beautiful and sort of poppy — a little more like the music I grew up on, like Blink-182 or Fountains of Wayne or Weezer.
I was a kid who wasn’t allowed to play with Barbies. As an adult, she was somebody who, for drag, was this endless spout of inspiration because if I could do blonde hair and fair skin and blue eyes and pink lips, it’s like: Wow, here’s this 50-year catalog of looks that I could pull off. It’s like a catharsis. I had this extreme yearning when I was a kid to be allowed to play with dolls and be a gay kid. And I just wasn’t.
I think Barbie is so drag. Every Barbie doll comes from the same mold, right, it’s just plastic. And then they market it by putting clothes on it. Whatever she’s dressed as, that’s what she is. Isn’t that drag? It’s sort of just the fantasy of you are what you’re dressed as. You’re as rich as you look, you’re as tall and beautiful as you appear. Whatever is being presented is the truth.
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