FRIDAY THOUGHTS: UPTOWN FUNK

I heard and saw the "Uptown Funk" video, for the first time, while waiting for a flight this past weekend. 

It was on a loop, so everyone in the B terminal at Cleveland Hopkins Airport had an opportunity for it to grow on us. 

For a minute, we were playing our personal versions of "Name That Tune"; just humming and trying to recall what songs this new offering reminded us of. 

Turns out, that we could be naming songs all day, because it's a super funky puzzle, made up of pieces of a lot of songs.

This is one, fun, catchy tune (and it's always good and refreshing to hear actual singing and real instruments being played on a track), but is it an homage to, and celebration of Zapp, Prince, The Gap Band, and others, or just straight, unintended musical theft? 

Doesn’t every song have the potential to remind you of another, by virtue of the limited amount of notes that are available to musicians? 

Still, I liked the nostalgia of it, and downloaded it when I got home.

When I figured out they were saying "smoother than a fresh jar of Skippy", I cracked up laughing. That IS pretty smooth...lol...(By the way, fellas, is saggin' officially over? Will we see the return of suits from Cignal and Cavalier Men's Shop?) 

Now about that "Hallelujah". Hey! HEY! Wait a minute! Is that cool? Can you just throw a "hallelujah" in a song all willy-nilly? Is it poetry? "Hallelujah" isn't one of those words you can hijack to mean something else, is it? 

Many religious people get pretty testy (and even violent) when any aspect of their faith is used in an unorthodox or disrespectful way. 

Do Christians have a bone to pick with Mr. Ronson and Mr. Mars, or no? Should we feel some kind of way? Should we call the religious "POlice"?... 

"It's your hallelujah?" "Shake your hallelujah?" "Hit your hallelujah?" 

“Sit your hallelujah?"... followed by one of the HIGHEST notes in the song, sung in that back vowel "oo"...and the promise that Uptown Funk will give the girls a reason to... say it?...or dance?...on Saturday night?...in the spot?...and if you don't believe him, just watch...him...dance...like...ummm...David?

 

Okay...okay...I know...way too deep...lol

The string and horn sections are smokin', and you COULD kinda lose yourself (and some weight) dancing to this little ditty.

Should we be prudish and "slow to take offense", or keep on tapping our feet, and think, "God you're gonna get the praise, that's due your great name, one way, or another."
Whatcha think, Chirren? 

"Just watch".