Barbie song I'm Just Ken: Ryan Gosling gets emotional, goes shirtless, and sings his heart out

Ryan Gosling's Ken is seen expressing his inferiority complex to Margot Robbie's Barbie.

Ryan Gosling in a still from Barbie song I'm Just Ken

Ryan Gosling, playing Ken in Barbie belts it out with all his might. In anticipation of the impending Greta Gerwig-helmed blockbuster, Warner Bros. has released an official music video featuring the actor performing the song I'm Just Ken.

In the song, Gosling's doll is struggling with his feelings of inferiority to Barbie (Margot Robbie) and wondering what his life would be like without her. In the accompanying clip, Ken is seen crying and extremely moved while shirtless.

On the official Barbie soundtrack, I'm Just Ken is the most recent original song to be published. Other notable performers on the album include Dua Lipa and Billie Eilish. Mark Ronson, the man responsible for the soundtrack to the Barbie movie, told Variety on the red carpet that Gosling's record was so amazing that Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash played on it.

As for the song's production, the composer said that it was so crazy. Huge movie star Ryan Gosling has only three hours on a Tuesday afternoon to record his vocals. He'd just gone in, and Ronson thought that the actor was going to murder this song.

The composer exclaimed that he is so pumped about the track. After Gosling recorded the vocals, they spent the next year refining the song. After he emailed the actor the finished version, including Slash, he was excited and pleased; that's the goal of creating an audio piece for another person.

Besides Gosling, other actors have voiced Ken in Barbie including Simu Liu, Scott Evans, John Cena, Ncuti Gatwa, and Kingsley Ben-Adir. Despite criticism from younger Barbie fans on social media that Gosling, at age 42, is too old to play Ken, the actor has come to the media's defence, making light of the criticism.

According to an interview with GQ magazine, Gosling said that if people don't want to play with his Ken, there are many other Kens to play with. The entire clutching-your-pearls concept of #notmyken is hilarious. The actor also asked people when they last gave Ken any thought. They have been caring for Ken the whole time, and all of a sudden it's like, "No. Not at all."

Gosling added that people, just like always, didn't give a damn. Barbie and Ken were never sexually involved. One has hit the nail on the head there. If people gave Ken any thought at all, they would know that he has no fans. This reveals their hypocrisy, and that's why people need to hear his story.

Warner Bros. releases the film Barbie on July 21.

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