It is probably barely unfair (and but weirdly becoming, given the arc of the film) that essentially the most memorable music in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie isn’t about Barbie. It’s “I’m Just Ken,” a winking ballad sung by Ryan Gosling to, nicely, anybody who’s listening, bemoaning the unhappy state of affairs the place a Ken — wherever else he’d be a ten! — can’t get the time of day from Margot Robbie’s Barbie.
In the movie, “I’m Just Ken” turns into the centerpiece of the film’s greatest and most elaborate musical quantity, when all the Kens in Barbieland start singing and dancing collectively to have fun their Ken-ness. Now this standout cinematic second of 2023 has been commemorated with a new Christmas vacation season rendition, carried out by Gosling and Mark Ronson.
In the music video, Gosling channels some old fashioned Hollywood crooner vitality, backed by a full recording studio band of musicians. I’m unsure this model is superior to the unique within the movie, however the spoken punchline on the finish of the video by Gosling is fairly humorous. Check it out:
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But that’s not the one new model of “I’m Just Ken” for the vacation season. This subsequent one is named “I’m Just Ken (In My Feelings Acoustic).” It is as marketed.
Powerful, very highly effective. Listening to that simply makes me need to go to the seashore and do … seashore. Which is a crucial job.
Barbie is now accessible for streaming solely on Max.
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