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The runway hit, which he collaborated with Bruno Mars, finally puts him in the spotlight. His new single "Uptown Funk" is so hot now, but not quite everybody remembers his name.
He laughs:
"The photographer came in earlier to shoot for some other thing before and he was like 'Yeah, it's so funny I told my roommate today, I was like oh, he was like, 'who you're going to go shoot?' and he was like 'I'm going to go shoot the white guy from the Bruno Mars video' and just like yes, why wouldn't you say that. That is absolutely true".
He says that the success of the song hasn't sunk in yet. 'Uptown Funk' has peaked at No. 1 in the UK, at No. 2 in Canada and at no. 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 charts.
"Even if the record was garbage, it's Bruno Mars, you're guaranteed a certain level of attention, right?"
"I'm also having this for the first time and with something that I'm as proud of as anything I've ever made it's awesome but at the same time it almost feel like it's happening to somebody else. I feel like I can call myself and be like, 'Hey, congrats on the single doing well.'"
The single even got Ronson and Mars to be hailed a new power couple in the press. The producer says it made him think of a power couple conjoined name and sent a message to Mars.
"I just wrote him an email and I was like 'is it weird that I get a nice feeling when someone calls us a power couple? As if we're Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg or something. Do we need a name? Brark? Manson?'"
Ronson collaborated with novelist Michael Chabon when writing the lyrics for his new album. It wasn't an easy process in the beginning. He explains:
"So I would have a piece of music and Michael would have these amazing lyrics and much cooler and more interesting than anything I've ever worked on which is why I asked him to be a part of it but maybe sometime I'd realize it was more interesting than I was even with my pop sensibility attuned to. Some of the lyrics, they were Leonard Cohen like these stories of these kind of dark people and awesome but maybe for the music that I'd written it didn't seem to fit and I wouldn't be able to tell him exactly what was wrong with it because I liked the lyrics on the page."
But after his album's co-producer Jeff Bhasker intervened, it went from strength to strength.
"Jeff in his endearing but super blunt way has these really adamant rules about songwriting of like. 'These words, no you can't say that cause that word doesn't sing well and you have to have more repetition here, nobody's going to want to hear that' and when we got into it and Jeff was doing a Jeff Bhasker songwriting bootcamp with Michael that was amazing too because Michael was just feeding off and taking it on board and just like getting better and better - not better and better at writing lyrics because he was doing that amazingly from the beginning - but better and better at understanding the lyrics for this record and what it needs to be."
Ronson's collaboration with Bruno Mars – on the chart-topping "Uptown Funk" is available now, while his full album, "Uptown Special," is due in January.
For Studio+, I am Chi Huiguang.
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