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Ryan Gosling gifts a Christmas version of his Barbie song “I’m Just Ken”

A “Kristmas” present from the biggest movie of the year.

December 20, 2023

Ryan Gosling and Mark Ronson have returned to the studio to record three new versions of Barbie song "I'm Just Ken." Ken The EP features a Christmas-themed take on the song, plus an acoustic rendition and a Purple Disco Machine remix. You can see the video for the "Merry Kristmas Barbie" one below.

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"I'm Just Ken" appears on the Barbie soundtrack alongside Billie Eilish's "What Was I Made For?" and "Dance The Night" by Dua Lipa. In a message posted on Instagram on Tuesday, Ronson reflected on how the festive version of the song came to be.

"I was also dying to show the song in a different context," Ronson wrote. "He demanded i go “Full Ronson” with the arrangement (which i took to mean 2007 motown/wall of sound-obsessed me). Anyway, i sent this version to him last Tues and he dug it & it sounded so f***ing xmas that we were like, “man, can we get this out in a week?!” So he rerecorded the vocals and here we are, a week later serving up this version that we love with about 5 days til no one wants to hear a xmas record, but sometimes u have to do it 4 fun (& maybe a little for Barbie)."

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Posted: December 20, 2023