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Ryan Gosling<\/a> brought the house down at the <\/span>2024 Oscars<\/a> on Sunday, with his <\/span>long-awaited performance<\/a> of “I’m Just Ken” from the <\/span>Barbie<\/em><\/a> movie.<\/span><\/p>\n Gosling was joined by the song’s producers, Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, as well as four of his fellow Kens from the movie — Scott Evans, Ncuti Gatwa, Kingsley Ben-Adir and Simu Liu. Even Slash and Wolfgang Van Halen were part of the massive production, joining in for the song’s epic guitar solos.<\/span><\/p>\n Ronson told ET on the red carpet ahead of the performance that Gosling “kinda wrote the whole script” for the long-awaited live rendition. The actor started off in the audience, sharing a cheeky moment with his Barbie, <\/span>Margot Robbie<\/a>, before he took the stage with a whole host of dancing Kens, who joined him in some dramatics on a set of pink stairs, brought the “Ken-ergy” with some epic choreography, and lifted him in the air, spinning him around before Gosling took the show out into the crowd again, singing along with Robbie, <\/span>Barbie<\/span><\/em> director <\/span>Greta Gerwig<\/a>, <\/span>America Ferrera<\/a>\u00a0and <\/span>Emma Stone<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Many Oscars viewers pointed out that the performance of the Oscar-nominated <\/span>Barbie<\/span><\/em> song paid homage to another one of history’s most famous blondes: <\/span>Marilyn Monroe<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n In the 1953 movie musical,\u00a0<\/span>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,<\/span><\/em> Monroe performs “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” in a stunning hot pink gown, on a set of red stairs surrounded by suitors. The performance, which became one of the bombshell’s most iconic movie moments, was clearly an inspiration for Gosling’s Oscar rendition — though in his case, the tuxedo-clad Kens around him carried large cutouts of Barbie heads, instead of hearts.<\/span><\/p>\n And the layers of interweaving movie references don’t stop there. In 2020’s\u00a0<\/span>Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)<\/span><\/em>, the titular DC Comics villain hallucinates herself performing “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” why being drugged and tortured by an enemy. Harley Quinn, of course, being played by none other than the Barbie to Gosling’s Ken, Margot Robbie.<\/span><\/p>\n Though “I’m Just Ken” ultimately lost Best Original Song to another <\/span>Barbie<\/span><\/em> soundtrack standout — Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” — there’s no doubt Gosling’s performance will remain a memorable moment in Oscars history for years to come.<\/span><\/p>\n “I’m Just Ken” even led the actor to another career first last summer, when it landed him on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time. The track <\/span>debuted at No. 87<\/a> last August.<\/span><\/p>\n Shockingly, however, Ronson <\/span>recently revealed<\/a> that the song almost didn’t make it in the movie.<\/span><\/p>\n