DJ Mark Ronson’s latest album titled Version hit stores today, below is an excerpt from EW, above a video from the single “Stop Me.”
In 2003, I wrote in this magazine that Mark Ronson’s debut, Here Comes The Fuzz, was a “cloying and insubstantial” attempt to replicate the kind of uberhip, VIP-clogged parties at which the DJ/producer plied his trade. (Harsh, I know, but the name-dropping was deafening.) Nearly four years later, the stepson of Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones has gone from celebutante spinner to producer du jour - and he’s making the better use of those gilded connections. Version features the sexy breakouts who put him on top, Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse, plus indelible ham Robbie Williams and RIP MC Ol’ Dirty Bastard. But this time, Ronson forsakes hip-hop-heavy originals for an extended karaoke session, with participants joyously twisting popular tunes by everyone from Radiohead to Britney Spears, and - what do you know! - it turns out to the be the monster jam of the season…
Read the rest of this story on Entertainment Weekly, and visit MarkRonson.net for more.
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