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During the Critics’ Choice Awards on Sunday, the power ballad was performed in Barbie Ryan Gosling won the award for the best song.
Writers Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt took to the stage to accept the award, where Ronson, 48, addressed Gosling, 43, as he sat in the audience.
“Ryan Gosling, this is your award as much as ours,” Ronson said. “You made the audience love this song with your unbeatable performance, so thank you.”
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Ronson thanked director Greta Gerwig and her co-writer husband Noah Baumbach, as well as star/co-producer Margot Robbie.
“The fact that you took 11 minutes into this prog-rock, power-ballad, dream-ballet, Shred fest so the guys could have a little cry and hold hands, we’re really forever in your debt for that,” Ronson told Gerwig. , 40.
The best song category included two more songs from Barbie soundtrack, Barbie: Album: Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Night” and Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” The other nominees were Movie Super Mario Bros the song “Peaches”, sung by Jack Black in the animated film, “Road to Freedom” by Lenny Kravitz from Rustin and the Disney song “This Wish” written by Julia Michaels Desire.
Three awards in the category of best song helped in the lead Barbie to be the title with the most nominations at the 2024 awards. The hit blockbuster, helmed by director Gerwig, received a whopping 18 nominations, including awards for Best Picture, Best Ensemble, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, among other awards.
The Critics Choice Award marks the second major trophy of this award season for music from Barbie picked up. At last Sunday’s Golden Globes, sibling duo Eilish, 22, and Finneas also won Best Original Song.
In her acceptance speech, the “Happier Than Ever” singer opened up about how writing “What Was I Made For?” “somehow saved [her]” after feeling “very miserable and depressed at the time” — a sentiment she shared in interviews following the song’s release.
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The film’s music continued to receive major accolades during this awards season. Multiple songs off the Mark Ronson-produced soundtrack have earned approval from the Recording Academy to compete at the upcoming Grammy Awards on February 4.
A few hits Barbie: Album they are also up for big, coveted awards, such as record and song of the year, and many compete in genre categories as well.
Except Rihanna’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever contribution “Lift Me Up”, the other nominees in the category of best song written for visual media are entirely from Barbie — including Ice Spice and Nicki Minaj’s “Barbie World,” Lipa’s “Dance the Night,” Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken” and “What Was I Made For?” Eilish and Finneas, 26.
The “Houdini” singer’s nominated song, “Dance the Night,” reached the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, and she previously spoke of how it was an “absolute no-brainer” when Ronson asked her to write the disco track. -pop song for the big dance number in the movie.
“[Mark] it was like, ‘I’m working on this movie with Greta Gerwig and it’s Barbieand it’s probably the funniest script I’ve ever read, and I really want you to write a song for the big dance scene in the movie,’ Lipa, 28, recalled during The Hollywood ReporterRound table of songwriters in November. “I thought, ‘This is absolute nonsense. A thousand percent yes.'”
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“I’m Just Ken,” meanwhile, which is featured during a big musical segment in which Gosling’s Ken takes center stage, has become its own pop culture phenomenon—it also charted on the Hot 100 and inspired Saturday night live Sketch.
In the July interview with vanity fairRonson (who co-wrote the song with Andrew Wyatt) explained that it was La la country The actor’s love for the song forced Gerwig to rewrite the entire scene to fit the performance.
“He really got it [that] he had to walk this line of not being funny or a parody,” said the record company producer. “But obviously the song is also funny sometimes. So he was really amazing, and when he really started hitting the high notes, I was like, ‘This guy is a vocal powerhouse!’”
Best Song nominee “Peaches” also became a favorite. Performed by Black’s character Bowser as he professes his unrequited love for Princess Peach (voiced by Anya-Taylor Joy), the actor — who also performs in iconic rock duo Tenacious D — wrote and recorded the song within days, as Insider reported in April.
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“This Wish” is another song from the animated film that received praise and recognition in the category of best song. Ariana DeBose sings a ballad in Disney’s Desirewhich tells the origin of the legendary wannabe star from the House of Mouse movies, as a witty teenage girl named Asha.
Following the film’s release, “This Wish” songwriter pop singer Michaels, 30, spoke to PEOPLE about the pressure she felt to write a “great” Disney song.
“I think a lot of the challenges came from me,” the “Issues” artist shared. “Disney’s legacy alone is music, and so the expectation to create something as great as what came before me was overwhelming.”
She added, “I had so many people on this film who supported me and believed in me and really got me through the process.”
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As for “Road to Freedom,” rock star Kravitz, 59, has lent his talents to the Colman Domingo-helmed biopic about civil rights activist Bayard Rustin and his efforts to organize the 1963 March on Washington. The powerful track, which also features musicians like Trombone Shorty, plays throughout Rustinfinal credits.
In a behind-the-scenes video released by Netflix, the rocker revealed that he was “intrigued” about writing the score for the film, but needed to “be educated” about the historical figure at the center of the film.
“I really didn’t know that much about Bayard Rustin, which ended up showing me that his story needed to be told,” Kravitz said. “The goal was to make a song that would evoke the struggle and triumph of the civil rights movement, as well as pay tribute to Bayard Rustin.”
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