Producer Mark Ronson talks through making of Ryan Gosling's hit Barbie song 'I'm Just Ken'. Source: @MarkRonson / TikTok
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00:00 All my life been so polite, but I'll sleep alone tonight
00:06 'Cause I'm just Ken, anywhere else I'd be a 10
00:11 Anyways, here's how we made that song.
00:15 So Greta sent us this incredible script, and we knew immediately that we needed to write a Ken song.
00:21 I was walking to the studio one morning, and the line "I'm just Ken, anywhere else I'd be a 10" popped into my head, and I thought,
00:28 "Oh, that sounds like the start of a chorus."
00:31 Pretty soon, Mark sent me this.
00:33 'Cause I'm just Ken, anywhere else I'd be a 10
00:40 I will die of sleep tonight
00:44 So I came in, and I thought, "What would be a nice way to set that up with the verse?"
00:47 And I came up with
00:49 Doesn't seem to matter what I do
00:54 I'm always number two
00:56 So we send our demo to Greta, who loves it, and send it to Ryan, who's very excited about it, and decides that he needs to be the one to sing the song.
01:05 Greta was like, "I need a dance sequence in this song," and that is where Kenergy was born.
01:10 Two, three, four, can you feel Kenergy?
01:16 Anyways, then Ryan gave the performance of a lifetime, but of course, you already know that.