Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk!

Disappointing, but it's okay.

EDIT: I swear I was meant to update this review earlier, just didn't get around to it.

This is just awesome now, there are just so many highlights!

Originally, I must say that I was very disappointed with this, because it was totally different to what I was expecting and hoping for from Mark Ronson. For some reason, on the first few listens, it just didn't capture me at all and I totally wasn't interested.

Then it became a big hit, and this frustrated me a lot, because I really wasn't understanding the hype. All the praise this song was receiving made me hate this song at some points in time, because I generally hate overpraised songs (or songs that are acclaimed more than I think they are deserving of) as much as songs I think are actually bad.

Even in my mid-decade chart, I said that this song had "diminished any hope I ever had" for becoming a Mark Ronson fan. This just shows the dislike I had for this at some points in time.

But then again, there were times scattered among this hate where I heard this song and just loved it, so I was constantly rebounding between loving and hating it. That is why I didn't get around to editing my review earlier, because every time I heard this, I would probably want to come on here and change my review, and my rating of this would have constantly fluctuated around 1* to 5* on probably a weekly (heck, even daily) basis.

Therefore, there was a lot of frustration, which wasn't helped by the fact that it seemed to be hanging around forever.

A few months later, after the hype settled down, I heard the song again by chance and was just loving the fun of it all. Just enjoying it without all the talk, and listening to it in isolation, made me realise there was a lot to like.

One thing that annoyed me at first is the deep-voiced "doo-doo-doo", but, while still irking me a little, actually leads into Bruno's entrance (along with that nice little guitar part) really well.

Then Bruno gets going, and it is all great from here. Some very cool lines here, with each one improving on the previous one somehow, my favourite being "I'm too hot (hot damn)/ Make a dragon wanna retire man". But then again, each line pretty much hits its target, and Bruno's delivery of it all faultless.

Also, the "owh" before the beginning of the first verse and the "yah"'s before the "Don't believe me just watch" parts just get me amped up, and are probably my favourite parts of the track actually.

If anything, I think the music during the verses is a bit simplistic (just drums I think), but at least it keeps the focus on what Bruno is spitting out at us. It then builds during that pre-chorus, and then explodes during that "breakdown" part. The sound effects are just perfect too (particularly the kiss after "Gotta kiss myself I'm so pretty").

The outro is magnificent too, however, that final blast of the trumpets just doesn't sound right to me, which is a shame because that is the final noise we hear on the track. I'm just saying that a song shouldn't end on that note.

Besides that, this is great, and I really wish I enjoyed this when it was big. Better late than never I suppose, but it really would have been nice to been in on this when everyone else was.

As for comparison with OutKast's "Hey Ya", to me, I still don't like this anywhere near as much as that, which goes to show what I think of that song, because I had a lot of good things to say about this. That song is in another class which this probably will never get to, keeping how much this grew on me in mind.

#24 EOY 2015

3* -> 5*
Laatst gewijzigd: 13/03/2016 05:35