Mark Ronson’s newest album Record Collection doesn’t do much for me save for this song, which is probably one of my songs of the year. It’s a sugar rush. MNDR and Q-Tip do the ‘Bang Bang Bang‘. Who needs MTV when you have the US late night talk shows?
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Pretty cool watching the drummer play this beat…