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Updated Monday, March 11, 2024-03:01

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Ryan Gosling

, the biggest plane-stealer of the year for his humorous and self-parodying

Ken

, was on the verge of eclipsing

Billie Eilish

at the Oscars.

The young singer won the award for

best song in the duel between the two songs from the

Barbie

soundtrack

.

However,

Ryan Gosling

, who was nominated in the

best supporting actor

category and who lost to Robert Downey Jr (

Oppenheimer

), has offered a wonderful performance of his song

I'm Just Ken

.

Dressed in a dazzlingly pink suit, he began singing in a seat behind

Margot Robbie

, ended up on stage with dozens of dancers and showing great vocal power and quite a sense of humor, and surprised the audience with the stellar presence of the Guns N guitarist. 'Roses

Slash

, who did the song's intermission solo.

It was probably

the best moment of the gala

.

With its tongue-in-cheek tone and parody of '80s ultra-processed pop ballads,

I'm Just Ken

has become one of the film's iconic moments.

It sounds like a joke, but it's no joke: it is composed by Mark Ronson, producer of the soundtrack, and Andrew Wyatt, Oscar winner in 2018 with the main theme of

A Star is Born

, performed by Lady Gaga.

Billie Eilish

also shone, in a different way, in the first part of the ceremony: she did it by whispering more than singing

What Was I Made For?

with her brother Finneas on the piano and an orchestra: it is the inevitable arrangement for that intimate, very beautiful and quite memorable ballad.

She is the one who went down in history tonight (again).

At 22 years old,

Billie Eilish has become the youngest person

to have two Oscars.

Two years ago he already won the Oscar for best song for

No Time to Die

, his theme for Daniel Craig's last film as James Bond;

Tonight she got the second for

What Was I Made For

?, the song that has become a great phenomenon of the

Barbie

OST .

The last time someone under 30 won a second Oscar was

Hilary Swank

in 2005 when she won for

Million Dollar Baby.

Billie Eilish already broke several records by winning the big four Grammy Awards

with

her debut album,

When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

She was awarded as the author of the best song, album, recording and for being the best new artist of 2019.

In the best example of how

Hollywood has ignored

Barbie

, the film was only a favorite in this best song category.

Even Greta Gerwig has lost in the best adapted screenplay category, which was won by newcomer Cord Jefferson for

American Fiction

.

What Was I Made For?

It couldn't have been more profitable for Billie Eilish and her brother, Finneas, who at 26 years old also has two Oscars as a co-author.

It has been the only song that Eilish has released in this year of

rest

and with it she has also won the

Golden Globe

for Best Song and the

Grammy

for Best Song of the Year, in addition to adding more than 700 million listens on Spotify and more than 115 million views on YouTube.