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"Angel" is a song by English singer PinkPantheress for Barbie the Album, the soundtrack of the 2023 film Barbie. It was released on 8 June 2023 as a promotional single and the album's third single overall. Written and produced by PinkPantheress, Count Baldor, and BloodPop, it is a bubblegum pop song about a lover named Johnny who ghosts PinkPantheress. It features Auto-Tuned vocals by PinkPantheress over breakbeat percussion and country-inspired guitar; it also includes an Irish jig-inspired fiddle break. The song was positively received by critics, who were favorable of PinkPantheress's vocal delivery on it, and peaked at number 76 on the Irish Singles Chart.
PinkPantheress received a call from Mark Ronson, one of the executive producers for the Barbie soundtrack album, who started "naming deep cut songs" before asking her to make a song for the soundtrack. "Angel" was produced by PinkPantheress, BloodPop, and Count Baldor. It was teased by PinkPantheress on her TikTok account with a video featuring a snippet of the song and a tweet revealing its release date. "Angel" was released on 9 June 2023 as the a promotional single and third single overall from the Barbie soundtrack, following Dua Lipa's "Dance the Night" and Karol G and Aldo Ranks's "Watati".
"Angel" is a bubblegum pop song with "maximalist" production consisting of an Irish jig-inspired fiddle break, "snappy" breakbeat percussion, country-inspired guitar, and PinkPantheress's "soft-sung", Auto-Tuned vocals. The song's lyrics are about PinkPantheress getting ghosted by a lover named Johnny. In the song's chorus, she sings, "Cause one day / One day my baby just ran away / My angel / You’re what haunts me now that you're away". Erica Gonzales of Elle wrote that "Angel" felt "atmospheric and cinematic". For Consequence, Carys Anderson wrote that the lyrics, including "Everyone tells me that life is hard, but it's a piece of cake", sounded like they were sung "from the perspective of Barbie herself".
PinkPantheress gave her first live performance of "Angel" during her November 2023 set at Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival at Dodger Stadium. During the song's fiddle break, a man appeared on stage and performed an Irish stepdance routine, after which PinkPantheress remarked, "It wasn't planned. I don't know who he is. He ate that, though."
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