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Barbie and the Rockers (known as Barbie and the Rockstars in European areas [1] [2]) is a doll line created in the mid-1980s by Mattel to compete with Hasbro's popular Jem doll line. They were on the market for roughly 3 years; a direct-to-video special, titled Barbie and the Rockers: Out of This World , was released in 1987.
The song's accompanying music video premiered on June 13, 2008. Directed by Joseph Kahn , it portrays the Pussycat Dolls in a traffic jam on Hollywood Boulevard . It was complimented for its dance breakdown, and was nominated in five categories at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards , the most of that ceremony, and went on to win Best Dance Video .
The lyrics of the song are about Barbie and Ken, the dolls made by Mattel.Both the song and its music video feature Lene Nystrøm as Barbie and René Dif as Ken. As such, the lyrics drew the ire of Barbie's corporate owners, and a lawsuit was filed by Mattel.
The song "One Sweet Day", performed by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men, spent 16 weeks on top of the chart and became the longest-running number-one song in history, until surpassed in 2019 by "Old Town Road". Janet Jackson earned six number-one songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1990s.
Billboard magazine compiled the top-performing dance singles in the United States on the Hot Dance Music Club Play chart and the Hot Dance Music 12-inch Singles Sales chart. Premiered in 1976, the Club Play chart ranked the most-played singles on dance club based on reports from a national sample of club DJs.
Jade has brown eyes and long black hair with an orange streak which she often wears in a ponytail and wears a fuchsia dress and white boots. As a Sky Dancer, she has fuchsia wings and wears a pink and white outfit. Slam (voiced by James Michael [8]) is High Hope Dance Academy's "Hero of Hip Hop" and controls the gravity beam in the Sky Realm. [9]
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In 1987, Mattel produced two television specials with DIC Animation City and Saban Productions; Barbie and the Rockers: Out of This World and its sequel Barbie and the Sensations: Rockin' Back to Earth, both featuring Barbie as the leader of a rock band (often seen as being Mattel's answer to rival fashion doll Jem from Hasbro); Mattel had previously avoided media projects for Barbie “for ...