If you managed to get through last week without listening to the infectious, funky jam that is Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson with Bruno Mars, watch the new music video now! It’s impossibly cool! It’s one of the most joyous songs to be released this year and the video is equally uppy! You’ll be jiving in the streets like the rest of them – or wishing you could.
Grammy-winning producer Mark Ronson takes the back seat in this retro video but is still there lingering in the background, while Mars is in the spotlight belting out the feel-good lyrics. The visual was co-directed by Mars and Cameron Duddy and they jive across town, check out the passing girls, get their shoes shined and even their hair permed. “Girls, Hit Your hallelujah: ‘Cause Uptown Funk Gon’ Give It To You …”
Ronson spoke to Ryan Seacrest about the track: “That song took a lot of work, it took seven months of chasing Bruno around the world on tour and a lot of blood sweat and tears, but I’m very proud of it. I love it. It’s one of my favorite things I’ve ever done … I think that Bruno just — with the lyrics and the vocal delivery — he makes it so it’s not too throwback-y. I guess I love all those things. I guess love live instruments, I love horns, but I also love DJing and playing records in the club that sound amazing. So, we tried to make a hybrid of all those things.”
Uptown Funk is the first single to be cut from Mark Ronson’s upcoming album, Uptown Special, which will be released on January 27, 2015 by RCA Records. Tune into to Saturday Night Live on November 22nd and you can watch them perform it live.
