04 August 2023 13:58
The film’s soundtrack debuted at number 2 on the Billboard 200 album chart
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Barbie scores another record. Ryan Gosling, 42, who in the film directed by Greta Gerwig played by Ken, in fact, he enters the Billboard 100, the American singles chart, for the first time with “I’m Just Ken” and becomes an icon of pop as well as cinema. The actor’s hilarious ballad peaked at number 87 for the week. Gosling, who has his own band, Dead Man’s Bones, had never achieved a result like this.
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With “I’m Just Ken” Gosling joins, among others, a
Dua Lipawho also plays a part in the film,
Sam Smith, Nicki Minaj e Billie Eilishwho also provided the soundtrack to the film, which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 album chart this week.
The song isn’t the only one Gosling sings on “Barbie.” In fact, the actor plays the guitar for the beautiful doll, during a hilarious moment in the film together with other Kens, such as Simu Liu and Kingsley Ben-Adir, the cover of Matchbox Twenty’s 1997 “Push”.
“I’m Just Ken” was written and produced by
Mark Ronson (executive producer of the album), who told Vanity Fair last month that he immediately connected with Ken: “You really fall in love with this ‘unfortunate’ but at the same time likable character”.
The difficulty of spotting a Ken in the sea of Barbie in the toy store (“no one gives a damn about buying a Ken doll”), is what inspired the Grammy winner to write the ballad “I’m Just Ken” , which is precisely the cry of Ken, who asks for visibility and begs Barbie to look at him, complaining that in the real world he would be a ten, or someone above average.
The “Barbie: The Album” executive producer told Vanity Fair that the track’s verse, “I’m just Ken / Anywhere else I’d be a 10,” came to his mind “instantly.”
“It looked like fun,” said Ronson. “He looked kind of emo, like, ‘This poor kid. He’s so sexy, but he can’t tell the time of day.’ ”
After Gosling first heard the demo of “I’m Just Ken,” he was instantly hooked and not only agreed to sing the track, but also asked to perform it in the film.
Ronson was concerned about how Greta Gerwig would react to the song, explaining that he didn’t want her to think he was “trying to be funny,” but that he agreed with Gosling. In fact, Gerwig was quick to like the ballad enough to rewrite a key scene to make sure Gosling could fit it into the film.
After recording the vocals, Ronson said he figured Gosling (whose music résumé includes his Oscar-nominated “La La Land” performance, an album with his rock duo Dead Man’s Bones, and a stint as a Mouseketeer) was a real “vocal power”.
‘Barbie’ also comes out in the UAE The UAE has approved the release of the film ‘Barbie’ after a delay of more than a month due to possible content issues. UAE officials did not explain the screening delay, which also occurred in other Arab nations. “The UAE Media Council has granted the Barbie film approval to be shown in licensed cinemas in the UAE after completing the necessary procedures in line with Emirati media content standards and age ratings.” United Arab Emirates,” the council announced yesterday. The film’s inclusion of a transgender actress like Barbie and other messages about LGBTQ+ issues could be a problem in Arab countries with Muslim majorities that consider homosexuality and transgender identity contrary to Islamic religious beliefs.
The world-famous doll movie, starring Margot Robbie in the lead role and Ryan Gosling as Ken, also features several other actors as Barbies and Kens, including Hari Nef, a transgender actress from Philadelphia, who plays one of the Barbies . Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. declined a request for comment. Majid Al Futtaim, the distributor of Warner Bros. films in the Middle East, has not yet been contacted for comment. In June last year, the UAE and other Arab countries initially delayed and then banned the release of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, ostensibly over the inclusion of a transgender reference and the studio’s refusal to censor it. .
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