It’s maybe barely unfair (and but weirdly becoming, given the arc of the film) that probably the most memorable music in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie isn’t about Barbie. It’s “I’m Simply Ken,” a winking ballad sung by Ryan Gosling to, nicely, anybody who’s listening, bemoaning the unhappy state of affairs the place a Ken — anyplace else he’d be a ten! — can’t get the time of day from Margot Robbie’s Barbie.
Within the movie, “I’m Simply 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 a good time their Ken-ness. Now this standout cinematic second of 2023 has been commemorated with a brand new Christmas vacation season rendition, carried out by Gosling and Mark Ronson.
Within 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. Test it out:
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However that isn’t the one new model of “I’m Simply Ken” for the vacation season. This subsequent one is known as “I’m Simply Ken (In My Emotions Acoustic).” It’s as marketed.
Highly effective, 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 obtainable for streaming completely on Max.
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