Chords for "What's a meme?" Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling on Barbie, 'double waving' and dressing as a hamster

[Gbm] _ _ _ Okay, [Abm] right.
Let's get started.
I'm going to take this as seriously as I can.
Hi Barbie, hi Ken.
Hi [Eb] Barbie!
Hi Ken!
You identify as Barbie or Ken?
What are you feeling today?
I'm feeling Carby.
[Ebm] Carby.
I just ate a lot.
[Ab] That was a joke.
I hope you enjoyed it everybody.
[Eb] No, we'll take these off.
You're like, I can't see my notes.
I can't see anything.
Looks like this beach was a little too much beach for you, Ken.
If I wasn't severely injured, I would beach you off for right now, Ken.
I'll beach off with you any day, Ken.
Would you mind beaching me off later?
Yes.
You wouldn't mind?
I wouldn't mind.
Damn.
Anyone who wants to beach him off has to beach me off first.
I will beach [Bm] both of [Gm] you off.
Well, I'll get my people to speak to your people.
We'll work something out.
Nobody's going to beach anyone off.
[E] Three questions I'm begging to ask.
[G] _ _ [A] Do [Bm] you guys ever think about death?
_ [Bb] Do you guys genuinely ever think about death?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I actually didn't that much until doing this movie.
Sweet!
And then suddenly we're having all these conversations about death and life.
Makes your head spin.
And do you have the time? _ _
Thank you for asking.
_ _ Oh.
We better wrap this up.
We're done.
We're done.
He's like, I have a watch.
I just haven't learned how to read analog yet.
_ _ [Eb] Who was the worst, and I think I know who it was,
at making everyone else corpse and crack up?
Because there must have been like 12, 13, 15 takes.
Yeah.
You, though, do you not say the words, yay space?
I really love that line.
Yay space.
Actually, Greta and I used to just text that to each other randomly.
Yay space.
At the end of messages.
I thought I might stay over tonight.
Why?
[Ab] Because we're girlfriend and boyfriend.
You do what?
[N] I'm _ _ _ actually not sure.
And the delivery of girlfriend and boyfriend?
I love that.
Sublime.
Oh, sublime.
It's really_ Sublime. _ _ _
You have to go and wave and yell.
Yeah, you have to go behind that poster and scream it and then come back.
The way Noah and Greta write, you've obviously got to say those exact words.
Were there lines that you couldn't get out your mouth
because they're so Kenny and Barbie and they're just bizarre?
[Gm] It wasn't that it [Em] was Kenny and Barbie, [N] it was rollerblades
is really hard to say in the American accent.
Did you bring your rollerblades?
I literally go nowhere without them.
I found it just hard to rollerblade.
_ I just struggled with saying it.
That makes sense.
But also Greta, like, she really listens to the rhythm of dialogue
and she wanted this kind of like, you know, quick pace.
And there were some lines where I'm like,
I know I'm stereotypical Barbie, I'm not meant to form conjectures
based on the causality of adjacent unfolding events.
You know, like stuff like that where I was like, okay, that's a mouthful.
There was a line involving the word bride.
Oh, yeah.
There was also a string of Barbie clothes that was really hard,
like pajama jam in Amsterdam set.
Pretty paisley palazzo pants.
Try that one.
It's like an accent warm up.
I should have just been saying that every morning.
You can write it, Greta, but you can't say it.
[Bm] Just remember that.
What were you guys calling it all the time?
Word salad?
Word salad.
So word salad.
When you were doing the dance sequences,
how many days are we talking about here?
Like three, four, to get them right?
Did we get it right?
I think we got the Ken dance in one day.
And then I think [Ab] for that opening [Db] dance number,
[Bm] I think we did a day and a half.
[E] I don't believe you.
Yeah.
[Bm] Even with Simu Liu backflipping in.
I [Dbm] know, isn't that so good?
[E] _ _
[Bm] Stop [G] shoving up.
So good.
Did your arms ever ache from waving?
Surely there was a moment going,
please, the sweet release of death.
Hi, Ken.
It's actually on this press tour I'm finding myself waving so much.
I feel like I'm on a presidential campaign or something.
I've stopped myself from doing the double wave.
I'm like, no, no, no.
Double wave.
I feel like the waves turned into a real thing now.
I'm getting [N] carpal tunnel, I think.
Yeah, yeah.
Got tennis elbow.
You suffer for your art.
There's the truth.
Tell me about going down the Barbie slide.
I'm too curious.
Were you on little skateboards?
Yeah, kind of.
You look, and I say this with love, so ridiculous.
Yeah, it was so fun.
Do you think this film will have in your top ten,
I've never looked more ridiculous in my entire life moments?
No, I've looked pretty ridiculous my entire life.
I've looked very ridiculous.
Gotta give me that pie.
_ _ _ I was [C] on Neighbours for three years.
They once made me wear a giant cigarette suit.
I'll make you [F] sick and I'll make you [C] stink
and I'll guarantee that no one ever wants to kiss [Gm] you.
Whenever [F] you're afraid.
It was the most embarrassing thing.
Anyways, yeah, there was some_
I was on Young Hercules.
Yeah, you were Young [A] Hercules.
Get a haircut.
_ [Eb] _
Yeah!
[N] I think we've both had our share of looking silly.
Okay.
I was a hamster at one point.
What?
Yeah, I did a_
Oh, now they're gonna_ Now_
I'm gonna have to dig that up.
The first thing I'm gonna do.
Now, our second guest is Chubby.
Yeah, that's the name my owners gave me, but look at me.
_ Now it's a fat on me.
You do it to yourself, man.
Yep, yep.
You walked into that one.
Why did he bring it up? _ _ _
[Bb] The [Abm] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ roller skating experience must have been an out of body_
We did look kind of ridiculous then as well.
Because real humans were there.
That was in the public.
There were so many real humans there.
Why are these men looking at me?
Yeah, they're all so staring at me. _
_ [G] That was the first time I canned publicly.
Oh, yeah, public canning.
We'd been in the bubble of Barbie land
shooting here in London at Leavesden Studios.
It was our first foray into the real world,
as it was for Barbie and Ken [Abm] as well,
so it was very fitting.
And Margot and Greta had created such a [N] safe
and creative environment that you could really try
and do anything, and then suddenly you stepped out_
And you can in public.
It's a rude awakening.
You do realize that, you know, Margot can tell you
over the past few years,
everyone's dressing as Harley Quinn for Halloween.
You know that Ken is gonna be everywhere this Halloween.
Oh, yeah.
Like, the mo-fur, that's gonna be everywhere.
Are you prepared for this?
I'm just happy for Ken.
_ _ Yeah.
I wish Barbie felt the same way.
She's happy for him, too.
Greta was saying that you were making, like,
wrap gift T-shirts, and Mattel said,
well, as long as Barbie's not involved
and you're making something to do with Ken,
just do whatever you want.
It really doesn't matter.
We really don't care.
Yeah.
They said when you Ken like lightning,
you crash like thunder, and I think that's true.
I got a T-shirt that says that.
It was this blonde horse with a headband.
_ I'll see you on [Bb] the Mallow Beach!
Are you across most of the memes?
I've seen a lot of them,
and they're because my [E] friends screen grab
and send them to me, and it's,
people are so clever,
people who come up with those funny memes.
I saw one today where
Kilian Murphy's Oppenheimer is walking [N] across
Abbey Road with you as Barbie.
No.
And there's a Barbie car
and, like, an Oppenheimer old-timey car,
and that's just this morning.
Brilliant.
There's a pink TARDIS down by London Bridge.
I'm here for it.
For shooting Gatwa.
Yep.
Why not?
That one we knew about,
but that other meme I hadn't seen yet.
Are there any that jump out at you?
I love all the ones where it's, like,
the cast of, like, Goodfellas or whatever
being like, tickets to Barbie, please.
All those ones really tickle me as well.
Beautiful.
_ What's a meme?
_ _ What he did there, he created a meme.
_ He created a GIF.
He's very pleased.
Very, very pleased.
I like that one.
This is where I wrap things up.
I'm going to say this before I leave.
This film made me cry twice,
and I didn't see it coming,
and they are the best tears.
So congratulations, fully grown man.
I love that.
Crying.
That's all we wanted to do with the Barbie movie.
It was properly_ Yep.
Is this what humans call tears?
Yeah.
You were Barbie in that moment.
You were like, that felt achy.
But good.
_ [G] _ Guys, [Bm] thank you so much. _ _
[D] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _
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