“I’m Just Ken” has become a Billboard 100 single and is a serious contender for meme of the summer.
just Ken? Ken may be living in Barbie’s world, but now we’re living in Ken’s.
The making of “I’m Just Ken” follows a similar trajectory to the song itself: It started small, with just Ronson at a piano, putting to music a line that had been rattling around his head ever since he read the script: “I’m just Ken/Anywhere else I’d be a 10.” Ronson, who was already working on several of the film’s other original songs, bashfully sent a short demo to Gerwig and her partner, “Barbie” co-writer Noah Baumbach, in which he mumble-sang the chorus through the “blond fragility” line.
To achieve precisely the “November Rain”-style theatricality they envisioned, Ronson reached out to a few experts: new Foo Fighters drummer Josh Freese ; his friend Wolfgang Van Halen, son of Eddie Van Halen and longtime bassist for Van Halen the band ; and the legendary Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash.“I think we thought maybe Slash would just do it if he was in a good mood,” Ronson says with a laugh. “But he was like: ‘This is dope. I dig this arrangement. Ryan Gosling sounds great. Sure.
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