Ryan Gosling’s ‘Push’ cowl in ‘Barbie’ stuns Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas

His music was used to “Push” the plot ahead in “Barbie” — and Rob Thomas loves it.

Matchbox Twenty’s frontman weighed in on the inclusion of 1996’s “Push” within the new “Barbie” film — admitting he was fearful at first about it being a joke, however has since acknowledged it’s a intelligent callout.

Ken (Ryan Gosling) performs the observe for hours on finish on his guitar for Barbie (Margot Robbie) whereas sitting round a campfire.

The scene (and music) is a pivotal level within the movie, pushing an ego-bruised Ken to embrace poisonous masculinity and take over Barbie Land — which Thomas praised as an ideal selection.

“I wish to preface this by saying that I assumed it was hilarious. However in ‘Carry It On,’ [Kirsten Dunst’s character] has this douchey boyfriend. And there’s a scene the place he was in his dorm room with a Matchbox Twenty poster within the background,” Thomas, 51, defined to USA Today.

“There was an entire interval in the course of the ‘90s the place the extra profitable we obtained, the larger goal we had been. We had been a simple takedown.”

Thomas mentioned when he was approached about his music being within the movie, it was defined that Ken can be hearth strumming alongside to his favourite band — Matchbox Twenty.

“So I did this pondering I’d be the butt of the joke, and I used to be fantastic with that. I’m fairly thick-skinned,” he continued.

“However Julie Greenwald [from Atlantic Records] got here to the Hollywood Bowl a month or two in the past. She had simply seen the film and was like, ‘You come out of it loving Ken and loving ‘Push.’ And I used to be like, ‘Aww. Alright, actually good!’”

“Barbie” director Greta Gerwig, 39, informed USA As we speak that “Push” — which was impressed by an emotionally abusive relationship — was on excessive rotation when she was a teen.

“It wasn’t till faculty that I really thought, ‘What’s that music about?’” she admitted to the outlet.

“Simply eager about 13-year-old me singing alongside and actually that means it, I used to be like, ‘That’s so attention-grabbing.’ I seemed it up and, in a manner, [Thomas] was taking part in a personality. It’s nearly like a narrative music.”