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Ryan Gosling Drops EP of ‘I’m Just Ken’ Remixes

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He’s still just Ken, but now he has his own EP. In addition to dropping a new festive version of “I’m Just Ken” on Wednesday, December 20, Ryan Gosling and Mark Ronson have released two additional remixes of the Oscar-nominated song on Ken the EP. After the success of Barbie this past summer, Ronson reconnected with Gosling and conceptualized multiple new versions of Ken’s big song. “I told him I fantasized about us performing the song live, so we started to dream what that might sound like,” explained Ronson on Instagram. “I was also dying to show the song in a different context — he demanded I go ‘Full Ronson’ with the arrangement (which i took to mean 2007 motown/wall of sound-obsessed me).” After recording, they realized how Christmasy the song sounded and got together to get it out just in time for the holiday season. The two other remixes — “I’m Just Ken (In My Feelings Acoustic)” and “I’m Just Ken (Purple Disco Machine Remix)” — of the Billboard charting song follow Pete Davidson’s parody on SNL. But just like in Barbieland, there’s plenty of Kens to go around.

Ryan Gosling Drops EP of ‘I’m Just Ken’ Remixes