Mark Ronson's “Uptown Funk” completes the lyric “Don't believe me, just...” with “watch.”
The song was recorded by British producer Mark Ronson featuring American singer Bruno Mars. It combines funk, soul, boogie and pop influences, using a deliberately retro sound shaped by 1970s and 1980s dance music. Mars also contributed to the writing and production.
Released in 2014, “Uptown Funk” became a major international hit and topped the charts in numerous countries. In the United States, it spent 14 weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, making it one of the longest-running chart leaders of the 2010s.
Listeners sometimes attribute the song entirely to Bruno Mars because of his prominent vocal performance. Officially, however, it is a Mark Ronson song featuring Mars, a distinction also reflected in the title credit.