Mark Ronson on 'Uptown Funk': Pop Songs Don't Need to Have Dumb Lyrics
Mark Ronson's brassy Bruno Mars jam “Uptown Funk” was the first new Billboard No. 1 of 2015. And though it's also the first chart-topping single for Ronson (in both the U.S. and the U.K.), you're probably already familiar with his work: in addition to …
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Tearing Up the Pop Charts
The most conspicuously gifted among them was Hutton's pianist, Ruth Lowe, an occasional composer who, like Irving Berlin, lost a spouse not long after getting married—Lowe's groom died in surgery—and found herself, in mourning, moved to write a song.
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Madonna, 'Rebel Heart'
Over stark chords on an acoustic guitar, “Joan of Arc” reveals something more shocking than Madonna's usual Molotov cocktail of sex and religion: “Each time they write a hateful word / Draggin' my soul into the dirt / I wanna die / I never admit it …
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