She’s Barbie. He’s just Ken. And now, it really is Christmas.
On Wednesday, Ryan Gosling — the Ken to Margot Robbie’s “Barbie” in the film — introduced the “I’m Just Ken” EP together with collaborators Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt. It attributes the primary Grammy-nominated, ‘80s-design electric power ballad from the movie, also titled “I’m Just Ken,” as effectively as 3 remixes: the stripped down “I’m Just Ken (In My Feelings Acoustic),” the dance ground prepared “I’m Just Ken (Purple Disco Machine Remix),” and the festive “I’m Just Ken (Merry Kristmas Barbie).”
The latter was launched with an official music movie, in which Gosling, Wyatt and Ronson are witnessed functioning on the vacation remix of the track in a studio drenched in Xmas lights with an impressive are living band, bantering with a person yet another. At 1 position, a goofy Gosling places on a pair of sun shades to get into character, telling Ronson he is performing so simply because “the environment can have Ken’s voice but only Barbie can have his eyes.”
Ryan Gosling is nonetheless just Ken, but now we get to see him driving-the-scenes.
The trio are joined by a total band as nicely by two cellists, four violinists and a glockenspiel. Gosling’s vocals are run by reverb — adding to the triumphant and whimsical reimagining. “Merry Xmas, Barbie,” he finishes the song. “Wherever you are.”
In July, Ronson, who worked as the govt producer of the “Barbie” soundtrack and also scored it alongside Wyatt, informed the Involved Press he typically only contributes audio to music for film — but in the situation of “I’m Just Ken,” could not shake a couple lyrics that produced the last cut, like its unforgettable refrain of “I’m just Ken, anyplace else I’d be a 10.”
“I’m Just Ken” is up for greatest song written for visual media at the 2024 Grammy Awards as nicely as the Golden World for finest authentic song.
Margot Robbie raves about working with her “Barbie” co-star Ryan Gosling, and admits that she “ruined all of his normally takes” because she couldn’t halt laughing at his efficiency as Ken. She also dishes on what went down during the Barbie forged sleepover in London in advance of filming.
