Ryan Gosling sings "I'm Just Ken" at the Oscars. The song sucks.

Ryan Goaling

I enjoyed the performance last night, it livened things up.

His performance of it was hysterical. If you don't get it OP that's fine. It was a brilliant parody of contemplative male power ballads from the '80s. Having Slash show up was a delicious touch. Maybe you're unaware of the genre they were having fun with.

Yeah. It was the highlight of the show.

Gosling's back-up dancers were over-dressed in tuxes. They should have looked more like Ken in board shorts and T-shirts. Yes, it was a spectacle, but the production had all the appeal of cardboard.

r3 What songs would you say this is a parody of? Something like "Mighty Wings" by Cheap Trick?

Jeez. Some people suck the fun out of everything.

Ryan's performance was the highlight of the entire show! Few people could have pulled off a live, one-off performance in front of a global audience like he did. And it wasn't just coming up from the audience and signing a song (ala Gaga and Cooper), but a full-on "production". It's the one part of the 2024 Oscars people will watch for years to come.

Loved it!

[quote] It's the one part of the 2024 Oscars people will watch for years to come.

You're easily entertained, aren't you.

He ruined the movie. It became all about whiny Ken and his poor little feelings.

I love the performance and the visuals but OP is right the song does suck. Ryan does a great job putting life into that shitty song.

R3 Yeah but not really. Whoever wrote it sounds like they don’t actually listen to or like 80’s hair metal.

[quote] Gosling's back-up dancers were over-dressed in tuxes.

It's just hard to top the original...

It's terrible song and that's the fun of it! The whole point of both the song and last night's performance was highlighting how bad the song is.

It was fantastic and campy and satire and I loved it.

The song sucks and he lip-synched it

Ironic that Ken is the one getting the Oscar nomination and the crowd on their feet as he performs while Barbie sat there the while night looking on, overshadowed.

He's pretty much the same as he was in the MMC days.

No Ryan wardrobe malfunction at R17?

I thought he and the production number were adorable.

Are the guys in the tailcoats the Juul Haalmeyer Dancers?

Wonder if Ryan and Justin still talk

It was joyful. (I’d never it.) Joyful and wacky.

He didn't lipsync that

The song and production was so hetero heavy. It took forever to end.

I would not describe his performance as "stiff," and I think he sang very well for that type of song.

Why doesn't his wife who is in the business ever come with him on his biggest night?

Shut up, OP. You're a miserable, culture-free, low-brow curmudgeon.

Yeah, the OP sucks donkey balls

KENERGY FOREVER

Yeah it’s not a good song but it is funny

[quote] Why doesn't his wife who is in the business ever come with him on his biggest night?

Eva Mendez is drop-dead gorgeous.

I love it

I love his voice

It was the best part of the show!

The movie is really lame too. I couldn't believe how botched the script was.

Haha the people who don't get it are such sticks in the mud. It's a power ballad (think Sister Christian by Night Ranger) by way of Broadway. It's really not SUPPOSED to be good per se. But it was a fuckton of fun.

It's funny in the way same way that Shut Your Fucking Face Uncle Fucko and What Would Brian Boitano Do are funny in the South Park movie. Except rated G. The joke is in the idea of the song. Not every song for a movie requires perfect composition and vocals.

WHET the erudite sophisticates of DL yore? Now we get dead-affect kill joy troglodytes such as...

[quote] Why doesn't his wife who is in the business ever come with him on his biggest night?

It wasn't his biggest night. Greta and Margot were not nominated and I think they were all kind of over it. However, they have to go and put on a happy face or they'd get kicked out of the Oscars club.

R37 the OP is probably Poisoned Dragon or a tranny, neither one of which is known for an acute sense of humor.

Super fun with a nod to “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend.” Lighten up, OP!

The chunky Scott Evans was really given it his all.

I'm the Da'Vine balloon tit that is feeling the most pressure.

Ryan sang live; he didn't lip synch.

i had no idea Scott Evans was in this movie (and I’ve seen it), until watching this.

[quote]a brilliant parody of contemplative male power ballads from the '80s.

You’re clearly a Frau, R3.

Anybody remember when Mr Goaling snapped at his gay Asian Barbie costar when he dared to put his arm around a VERY STRAIGHT Ryan at one of the premiers?

I do, and for that alone I’m sick of seeing his rat face and that stupid insipid song everywhere.

[quote]Jeez. Some people suck the fun out of everything.

Well, this is the DataLounge. These shut-ins are just doing the job they signed on for.

I thought it was a great moment in an otherwise boring show.

He lip synced. He’s not a trained singer. There were too many choreographed moments for him to sing it live. And he does NOT have a nice voice at all! Ye sheep idiots.

Read the Variety article about how it came about, R49. He had a coach to help him navigate how to sing whole doing all the movement from stage to audience.

R49 we're sheep because we enjoyed a performance? Okaaaay. Look into threapy maybe

The fact that so many Americans are obsessed with this song and losing their minds over “how great” he is says so much about this increasingly ignorant, Tik Tok and reality tv-obsessed country. Meanwhile, Chinese kids are doing calculus on cell phones on their way to school.

R51 sounds simple, and so easily entertained. R51, do you bounce up and down and clap while watching videos of chimps eating bananas?

R44 There are apparently pictures of when he changed in the Barbie movie studio locker room. I heard that in a blind item that stars are secretly filmed sometimes.

[quote]Read the Variety article about how it came about, [R49]. He had a coach to help him navigate how to sing whole doing all the movement from stage to audience.

It seemed to me that it was sung live rather than lip synched.

R55 I think his voice is so bad that the playback made it appear like an average live singer.

What do you find so "bad" about his voice? I thought it was just fine for that kind of song, it wasn't as if he tried to sing "Nessun dorma."

R57 it sounded like a weed smoker voice. I just simply noticed that he is an actor and not a singer. He has more potential but that would take 5 years of constant singing practice. Does he use botox? Because he barely moved his face during the performance. He kinda looks like Cher with these cheeks.

Did he sing in La La Land?

[quote] Eva Mendez is drop-dead gorgeous.

Her brother is drop-dead gorgeous, too.

wow

Great pecs. Latino Ken.

Bitch stole my act.

R54 oh yeah he so sexy that lil mofo 😋😋😋