He seems to just be going for it. Mark Ronson wants to produce huge songs... y'know summer anthem kinda stuff. With "Bang Bang Bang" he succeeds. It it both fresh sounding for a 'Ronson Production' and seems entirely in step with his progression as a producer and where the current scene is England is right now. He's not a businessman... he's a business man and he incorporates just enough synth-lines to make that revival happy, just enough hip hop to sell the record (y'know 'move units'), and just enough of his whit-boy-soul influences to keep that part of his persona in check.
Rock & Roll is currently dead, but people like Mark Ronson who are not "rock & roll" at all are keeping the "anything goes" ideals of it alive by accident; and for that alone that makes him important at the moment. As a songwriter and producer he has the swagger of an updated Noel Gallagher with a little bit of Jay-Z and Phil Spector thrown in for good measure.
This is first single of of the new record out later this summer. Needless to say I am excited.
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