Reacting to "I'm Just Ken" at the Oscars
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
- Ryan Gosling at the Oscars, singing "I'm Just Ken" as Ken is a quintessential musical theatre moment!! This song may have lost the Oscar for Best Original Song to "What Was I Made For" by Billie Eilish & Finneas, but the movie Barbie wouldn't be the same without this song. The writers Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt have achieved an amazing work of musical theater in my opinion!
The movie Barbie was released in 2023, starring Margot Robbie, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Will Ferrell, Ryan Gosling, Simu Liu, and Michael Cera, among others, directed by Greta Gerwig.
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They need to make "I'm Just Ken" a Broadway play.
OMG that’s a great idea!
More like making the whole Barbie thing a musical on Broadway...
White males never fail to amaze in their obliviousness. Like Ken.
I’m here for it
Barbie is going to end up on Broadway, I’m sure…🩷💖💕
im obsessed with music people explaining why certain songs sound so good to me
You’re in the right place then, partner ✊
@@MusicTheatreTheory would you be able to play the full song yourself in a video pls🙏🙏
They only rehearsed for a week and only had one run-through on stage, and the 4 movie-Kens didn’t fly in until the general rehearsal the day before. Ryan Gosling called and asked them if they would come 3 days before. Brilliant how it all came together! He planned the whole thing, the Marilyn Monroe tribute, to have Margot Robbie, Greta Gerwig and America Ferrara placed in the front row (they were seated elsewhere during the rest of the show) to pay tribute to them, his big sister Mandi by his side whose head he puts the hat on (she’s almost always by his side wherever he has premieres or award shows), she’s been his date to the Oscars for years, as has his mother (he and his partner Eva Mendes never do public stuff together), going to his friend and 3-time co-star Emma Stone (last was in La La Land) with the mic, getting La La Land choreographer Mandy Moore on board, planned all the camera shots and got Slash and Wolfgang van Halen to come as well. Just a brilliant, talented, kind, class act guy with a great quirky sense of humour. Yes, I’m a big fan in case you were wondering. 😄
They were in the front row because they were nominated and in the biggest movies of the year
I've watched over a dozen review videos of this performance, and i found yours the most interesting. Thanks for your thoughtful breakdown.
That moment when the lights fade to pink is so special.
I didn’t like that much the movie, but I left the theatre singing “I’m just Ken” and since then I love this song! 💗
Gosling had a band like 14 years ago, in some of his tracks like "My Body's a Zombie For You" he kinda sounds like elvis, you can hear that he is a talented singer. Also such a nice "LA LA LAND" reunion moment with Emma towards the end. Nice analysis!
His uncle was an Elvis impersonator when Ryan was a little kid
I feel like I heard some Elvis in Ryan's performance at the Oscars.
Your dramatic conclusion about the progression of the entire Ken journey is perfect. I chuckled hearing all that.
I’m convinced. Thank you. I have to say that I’ve avoided theory beyond suspensions and resolutions because my roommate in freshman year was a theory and composition major and t&c and sight singing/ear training were the washout courses in the music school. I was poly sci and musically illiterate but our room was constantly filled with panic-stricken horn players hoping to make the cut. It was aversion therapy over three academic quarters. Fifty years later, you make your course sound tempting.
Fantastic analysis. Instant subscribe.
I just realized, hearing you playing the melody, that it is very similar to "Despacito" drilling in your ears all over again.
Gostei do seu comentário e explicações. Muito bom.
Your arguement about the last key change... the note you propose that it should go to is the note Slash was playing.
Mark Ronson wrote the song. He also gave us Uptown Funk which is several lifted songs patched together.
I watched this because it came up on my recommended videos so why not but I’ll be damned if I understood any of it. 😂 Sincerely, a person who doesn’t know jack about chords.
Very nice analysis
Fascinating.
Really interesting music theory applied to a pop tune.
How is it compared to the movie though? They had to really condense it down for the Oscars.
The length of the song is the same. The official video of the song from the movie is on here as well.
Ryan Gosling wouldn't understand it either because he doesn't read music.
And yet, he and Emma Stone saved Jazz.
@@michaeladkins6😂 It really was a great SNL with Ryan that day.
Someone has been drinking way too much Barbie koolaid. Where to begin. Barbie is the most overhyped movie of 2023. Gosling was 20 years too old to play the part and not near good looking enough. You needed an unknown drop dead gorgeous 21 year old model actor to play Ken. Same thing for Barbie. One thing we learned from this is Gosling definitely is NOT a singer. Why is he wearing pink? Pink is Barbie's color. And there is nothing special about the song itself. I was a theatre major in college and I have been a musical theatre geek since the age of 5. To compare this moment to a Broadway show is absurd. Now that the Oscars are over we can leave Barbie in the past. Just watched the movie...no comment as I do not have that much time.
Angry man syndrome is overhyped.
He's wearing pink because they staged the number as an homage to the number 'Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend', from the movie Gentleman Prefer Blondes.
The sequence in the movie was an homage to another classic, Singing in the Rain.
I did not notice any Singing in the Rain connection...@@valeriemcdonald440
It’s ok man, you didn’t like the movie, that’s ok, you don’t have to like everything.
I encourage you to be a bit more open-minded in the future though. If something emotionally connects with this many people, there must be some merit in it, even if you can’t immediately see it from your perspective.
The mindless masses are easy to appease. I consider myself very open minded. LOL@@MusicTheatreTheory