ID: 431
Date: 2001
Title: I'm a Barbie girl
Gender: Female 
Classification: Parody 
Rhyme: 

I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world.
Life's fantastic, I'm made out of plastic.
I've got rubber hair, purple underwear.
I take a shower, every half hour.
Come on Barbie, 
Let's go party, 
No way, no way.

(New Plymouth, 2001)

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Background Info: Rowan,2005, records a similar rhyme beginning
"I'm a cheatin' girl, in a bowling world.. "(E.London, 2005)

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Rhymes relating to Barbie often incorporate exaggerated mimed actions. Discussion of this aspect and text of rhymes in Grugeon, 2001:110.

We are the Barbie girls, 
We wear our hair in curls,
We wear our dungarees
To hide our dirty knees.
We wear our father's shirt,
We wear our brother's tie,
And when we want a guy,
We simply wink the eye.

(UK, 1983)

Exaggerated actions and much mirth accompanied this following version:

We are the teenage girls,
We wear our hair in curls.
We wear our dungarees,
Up to our sexy knees.
I met a boy last night,
He paid me 50p to go behind a tree,
To have it off with me.
My mother was surprised to see my belly rise.
My daddy jumped for joy, it was a baby boy.
My mum had fifty tits. (fits)

(UK, 1997)

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Keywords: commercial product, media culture, modern culture 
Location: New Plymouth 
Group size: 6 
Incidence: 1