BTS’ Jimin is now the proud proprietor of a six-stringed slice of pop-culture historical past — Ken’s guitar from the Barbie film.
Ryan Gosling, who stars as Ken within the Margot Robbie-led hit, had reached out to the Ok-pop star with the “humble providing” of the instrument, an admission that Jimin had captured the Western Ken look first, and did it “greatest.”
The Hollywood star has delivered on his promise.
Jimin is now in receipt of the custom-made guitar, which is emblazoned with Ken’s title and a horse picture, and obtained a exercise within the movie as Gosling carried out a canopy of Matchbox Twenty’s “Push”.
In “Hello Ryan and hello Ken, it’s Jimin. Congrats in your massive launch,” Jimin feedback in a brand new message, from one Ken to a different. “My followers are excited to see your video, so thanks a lot. I might see that you simply look nice in my outfit. Thanks for this guitar. I actually like it and I stay up for watching Barbie. Go, Barbie!”
The video is accompanied with the caption, “Thanks for having my outfit in #BarbieTheMovie! You rocked it, Ken.”
Earlier, in a video message shared previous to the SAG-AFTRA strike, Gosling defined, “I discover that your ‘Permission to Dance’ outfit is similar as my Ken outfit within the upcoming film Barbie. I’ve to provide it to you — you wore it first. You undoubtedly wore it greatest and there’s an unstated Ken code that in case you chunk one other Ken’s fashion, it’s important to give them your most prized possession.” He added, “I hope you’ll settle for Ken’s guitar as my humble providing. Moreover, Ken doesn’t actually play anyway, so…it’ll be a lot better in your palms.”
Barbie has been a world hit, clocking one of many greatest openings for the reason that pandemic and scoring the highest opening of the 12 months up to now. In response to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie took $162 million on the North American field workplace over July 21-23, smashing the opening-weekend document for a feminine director.
Talking with the The New York Occasions, the director admitted she was “perplexed” after seeing the movie’s success. “It’s been superb to stroll round and see individuals in pink,” she added. “By no means in my wildest goals did I think about one thing like this.”
Jimin has greater than sufficient star energy of his personal. In April, he led the Billboard Artist 100 chart, due to the discharge of his new solo album, FACE (through BigHit Music/Geffen/Interscope Information), and its breakout monitor, “Like Loopy.”
That single blasted to No. 1 on the Billboard Sizzling 100, changing into Jimin’s first solo No. 1 outdoors BTS, which has scored six chart leaders.
