BTS Singer Jimin Plays Ryan Gosling’s Ken Guitar From ‘Barbie’ After Actor Gifted It To Him: Watch

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“Hi Ryan and Hi Ken, it’s Jimin. Congrats connected your large release,” said the K-pop superstar successful a video posted to his societal media connected July 24, days aft Ryan Gosling upheld “the Ken Code” by giving the BTS member Ken’s guitar from the Barbie movie. Jimin, 27, showed disconnected the instrument, which bore a achromatic equine and the sanction “KEN” successful the Metallica font connected the body. “Thank you for this guitar. I truly emotion it, and I look guardant to watching Barbie. Go, Barbie!”

Ryan, 42, didn’t springiness the guitar to Jimin due to the fact that he’s a large instrumentality of “Butter” and wanted to perceive an acoustic rendition. On July 19, Ryan appeared successful a video connected the authoritative Barbie Instagram leafage wherever helium acknowledged what galore BTS ARMYs were pointing out: the outfit that Jimin wore successful BTS’ “Permission To Dance” video was the aforesaid black-and-white occidental outfit that Ken wore successful the Barbie movie.

“I person to springiness it to you. You wore it first. You decidedly wore it best,” Ryan said humbly earlier getting to the substance astatine hand. “There’s an unspoken ‘Ken Code’ that if you wound different Ken’s style, you person to springiness them your astir prized possession. So, I anticipation you’ll judge Ken’s guitar arsenic my humble offering. “Besides, Ken doesn’t truly play, anyways, truthful it’ll beryllium overmuch amended successful your hands.”

Ken mightiness not play, but Ryan surely does. Ryan’s 2 large philharmonic moments successful Barbie: his screen of Matchbox Twenty‘s “Push” and the archetypal opus “I’m Just Ken” (featuring Wolfgang Van Halen and Slash). “[Ryan’s] truly got [that] it had to locomotion this enactment of not being comic oregon parody,” said shaper Mark Ronson, who worked connected the Barbie soundtrack, erstwhile talking astir Ryan’s philharmonic talents to Vanity Fair. “But obviously, the opus [“I’m Just Ken”] is besides benignant of ridiculous astatine times. So helium was truly amazing, and erstwhile helium truly did commencement hitting the large notes, I was like, this dude is simply a vocal powerhouse!”

Ryan, arsenic Ken. Jimin, arsenic Jimin. (Jaap Buitendijk / © Warner Bros. / Courtesy Everett Collection/Joe Schildhorn/BFA.com/Shutterstock)

Barbie was not Ryan’s archetypal spell astatine music, and the occurrence of the movie has brought much eyes to his band, Dead Man’s Bones. Formed with his person Zach Shields in Los Angeles, the 2009 medium Dead Man’s Bones was recorded successful collaboration with the Silverlake Conservatory of Music Children’s Choir and contained songs similar “My Body’s A Zombie For You” and “In The Room Where You Sleep.” (Mental Floss summed it up with their nonfiction titled “Ryan Gosling Recorded An Entire Album Of Halloween Music And It’s Actually Great.”)

When Ryan spoke with iHeartRadio Canada up of the Barbie premiere, iHeartRadio’s Shannon Burns asked if helium would beryllium funny successful bringing the set back. “Never accidental never,” helium said.

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