simply a pop song, or a meaningful appraisal of the superficiality of modern society?
excuse my layman’s terminology, but i’ve always perceived it as being about kiddyfiddling
Prima Facie, it’s a cheap attempt to get money and some who fell for it…It was kinda catchy.
hey!.. I’d sing about roller coasters and cotton candy if I was guaranteed some money 
But when you look on it, more than likely, a guy from the group must have written it. In my opinion, that’s how guys want to see girls, easy and ‘plastic’ /material.
The song is basically saying
I am an easy girl
In an easy world
Plastic Life its , its so fantastic.
SO u can say it is
a meaningful appraisal of the superficiality of modern society"
I was gonna say something trashy about women and plastic. But decided I’d like to post here more often.
SO up it was a bad song, it made people rich. And the weirdo’s that made it are setting pretty. Pop music in the literal sense makes sense here, the bubble inflate with cash as people buy it, then finally those involved are too rich to care about their career and the bubble goes pop and everybody gets one big explosion of money but that’s all he money they get.
heh still thinking of the women+plastic joke, man i can be a pig some days. 
I dont think this song is as complex as you guys are making it… Reduced this song seems to be refrecning sex. It shows a coy girl making foolish remarks to please the guy/ the (lisener…or the audience of the song) I know when i hear this song, I think about sex.
"You can touch, you can play, if you say: «I’m always yours» "
Why else would she say this? tactile behavior usually refers to sex, especially in a POP song.
This songs get me in the mood. Can you hear the sarcasm?
Perhaps, then, it’s brutally honest song forcing people to confront the female attitude towards sex in the “Barbie Doll” age of attaining physical perfection.
Perhaps here Barbie is used as a physical and easily identifiable representation of the female desire to be attractive in the modern age, where perfection is chased using “plastic” surgery and other similar modern techniques. The song confronts us with this image and then begs the question: how do women use this false beauty to suit their own needs?
She tells her male companion - presumably Ken, who may or may not suffer from penis envy due to having been created without that particular appendage (anyone who’s ever pulled down his trousers will know what I mean) - that he is free to “touch” her and “play” with her so long as he willing to say that she is always his. Perhaps then, this song is about the desire in an increasingly Stoic age to feel loved, and the “Barbie” figure in this song uses her “plastic” attractiveness to attract this male, who she then allows to treat her poorly, so long as he tells her he loves her. Can we not say, then, that this song is the musical (and I use that term grudgingly) manifestation of the human desire to feel attractive and to be loved for it?
Well? Can we not? Huh?
I thought I’d resurrect this thread as it was quite interesting…and I remember the irritating song it discusses. Just to draw this to people’s attention…
have you people lost your sense of humour?
that song is awful lot of fun!!! 
I seriously doubt you’ll find deep thought in pop culture.
but on a lighter note the song is catchy and fun to listen to for a few seconds then you want to strangle that damn girl saying “I’m a barbie girl in a barbie world” she has possibly the most annoying voice I’ve ever heard in a pop song.