Ryan Gosling Scores First-Ever Scorching 100 Track With Barbie’s “I am Simply Ken” – E! On-line

This track is proving to be greater than Kenough. 

Ryan Gosling simply reached a brand new skilled milestone—touchdown a track on the Billboard Scorching 100.

This musical accomplishment is due to Barbie‘s “I am Simply Ken,” which options Ryan’s character singing an emotional, 80s-inspired ballad bemoaning his lot in life as solely a counterpart to Barbie earlier than turning into an epic, choreographed quantity together with all of the Kens (and even that includes Slash and Wolfgang Van Halen on guitar). The track has turn out to be an enormous hit, with its recognition touchdown it at quantity 87 on the chart. 

“I am simply Ken / Anyplace else I might be a ten,” the tormented doll-come-to-life sings. “Is it my future to reside and die a lifetime of blonde fragility?”

After all, Ryan’s musical prowess ought to come as no shock to followers. Not solely has the 42-year-old confirmed off his singing and dancing abilities in 2016’s La La Land, however the actor was additionally one in all two frontmen for the rock duo Useless Man’s Bones together with fellow actor Zach Shields. The group launched its first, and solely, eponymous album in 2009. 

So who penned the now-iconic Barbie ballad? Grammy Award-winning producer Mark Ronson stepped as much as the plate, or ought to we are saying seashore, together with Andrew Wyatt to carry “I am Simply Ken” to life.