How ‘Barbie’ Song “I’m Just Ken” Went From Tragic To Triumphant – Sound & Screen Film
deadline.comAfter the summer blockbuster success of Barbie, fans everywhere are singing “I’m Just Ken” along with Ryan Gosling. Songwriters Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt shared how the song evolved into such a power anthem at Deadline’s Sound and Screen event Thursday.
Ronson said he thought of the line, “I’m just Ken, anywhere else I’d be a 10” and thought, “That’s so sad.” “The Ken character just sunk his dopey hooks into me,” Ronson said. “It’s so wonderful to write a song from the tragic person who doesn’t get what they want in the film.” Ronson called frequent collaborator Wyatt to help.
When they played the song for director Greta Gerwig, she said she wanted to see the movie it came from. Ronson reminded her, “It’s your movie.
You can have it.” Then Gerwig played the song for Gosling, who said he related to it on a deep level. “I said, ‘Was he being sarcastic?’” Ronson said.
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