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    Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt find emotional truth (and lots of funny) in ‘I’m Just Ken’

    by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times Nov 14, 2023 3 minutes
    In this handout provided by A.M.P.A.S., from left, Andrew Wyatt, Anthony Rossomando, Lady Gaga and Mark Ronson pose with the Music award for' Shallow' from' A Star Is Born' backstage during the 91st Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre on Feb. 24, 2019, in Hollywood, California.

    Mark Ronson has always been a mumbler, his soft, unobtrusive speaking voice a product of both his transatlantic upbringing and — notwithstanding the chart-topping pop songs he’s helped create — his general disinclination toward fame.

    But when the 48-year-old songwriter and producer cut a demo of a tune for the character of Ken to sing in Greta Gerwig’s big-budget “Barbie” movie, Ronson purposely went marble-mouthed to avoid bringing inordinate attention to a clever lyric he’d penned about Barbie’s maybe-boyfriend.

    “I just didn’t want them to think I was coming too hard with the funny,” he says

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