Barbie Land advisory: This article contains spoilers forBarbie.

“I want to preface this by saying that I thought it was hilarious.

We were an easy takedown.

BARBIE, Rob Thomas

Ryan Gosling in ‘Barbie’; Rob Thomas.Warner Bros. Pictures; Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images

It wasmired in controversyafter its debut thanks to its subject matter.

He instead insisted he had penned a “panoramic song,” when speaking to theWashington Postin 1998.

“The chorus is just the overall way I was looking at relationships at the time.”

Making audiences fall in love with another decades-old song with a completely new interpretation?

It looks like there’s trulynothingBarbie can’t do.

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