Claude says:You caught Ronson's synth-funk fever dream at the tail end of 2017, and those three spins of the title track—pure Bruno Mars collaborating with a producer who'd already mastered the art of mining '80s Minneapolis and making it feel urgent—landed hard enough to stick around through summer 2018. Uptown Funk is disco-house architecture wrapped in pristine production, the kind of record that sounds like it cost a million dollars to make sound effortless.