And as a producer, you're seeing vocal ranges and their limits, and you always want to push them - but not too far, because if you're pushing somebody to range they don't have, you can shatter their confidence and then the whole session is a wash. It's awkward being with anyone in the studio for the very first time, because it's a vulnerable place. On getting Ryan Gosling in the studio to track "I'm Just Ken" All you can ever tell is: Is it making you excited when you're in the studio? And I sent off the demo to Greta, and she wrote back so enthusiastically. I got to the piano and I found chords and a melody that I thought was good. I wasn't even thinking, at that point, I'm going to write this song by myself, or write the lyrics. I think I was walking to the studio one day, my studio in Manhattan, and " I'm just Ken / Anywhere else I'd be a 10" - it just came to me. All he wants is just for this person to feel the same way about him that he feels about her, and that's never going to happen. Maybe it was because I knew Ryan Gosling was playing, so I had the advantage of picturing him saying every line as I'm reading this script, but he just got his hooks in me, that character. On writing the song "I'm Just Ken" (despite not being a lyrics guy) ![]() And while all of those elements are important to the songs that made it to the soundtrack, he knew the movie's background music shouldn't be a distraction: "You're there to support the emotional undertow of the film at that moment." "When you're making a pop song, you're constantly thinking of of hooks and melodies and ear candy," he says. "It was just so wonderful to see how every artist took what they saw, took the conversation with Greta, and everyone ran with it and did something different."Ĭoaxing great ideas out of pop stars is familiar territory for Ronson, but his instrumental score for the film, co-composed with Wyatt, was his first such project - and he admits that making it work meant stifling some of his usual instincts. "And that's what's so great about a lot of the songs that people wrote, because they seem so bespoke," Ronson says. The process seemed to work after watching an early version of Barbie's car chase scene, Charli XCX wrote " Speed Chase" for the soundtrack. Ronson and Gerwig would talk to the musicians and show them scenes from the movie to illustrate the its tone and arc. Mark Ronson won an Oscar in 2019 for his song " Shallow" from A Star is Born. And some came because of Ronson's reputation. Some artists were drawn to the project because of Gerwig's previous work, others because Barbie (the doll) had played an important role in their lives. What followed was a year of working with artists like Nicki Minaj, Sam Smith, Billie Eilish and PinkPantheress to conceptualize, produce and compose songs for the album. Obviously, Barbie's story is so wonderful." ![]() "I love the whole message of it, I love the whole idea of it. "I was so inspired by this script," Ronson says. ![]() When the film's director, Greta Gerwig, asked if Ronson and Andrew Wyatt would score the entire film, they couldn't refuse - even though they'd never scored a film before. Mark Ronson isn't new to this music thing: The hitmaking producer already had several Grammys and an Oscar to his name when he signed on to produce the soundtrack for Barbie. Barbie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, is the top grossing movie of 2023, generating more than $1.3 billion at the international box office so far.
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