{"id":490867,"date":"2019-10-03T16:10:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T22:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=893545"},"modified":"2019-10-03T16:10:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T22:10:05","slug":"in-conversation-with-mark-ronson-5-things-we-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/in-conversation-with-mark-ronson-5-things-we-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018In Conversation\u2019 With Mark Ronson: 5 Things We Learned"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2019s \u201cIn Conversation\u201d discussion series, a partnership with Ralph Lauren, began its first installment in conversation with Mark Ronson<\/a> on September 25th. Live and decked out in Polo Ralph Lauren attire, Ronson chronicled his journey through the music industry and answered questions from staff writer Patrick Doyle.<\/p>\n

The two covered everything at the event in Polo Ralph Lauren\u2019s New York City Prince Street store, from his work with Amy Winehouse to his latest single with Miley Cyrus, as well as his recent solo album, Late Night Feelings.<\/em> Here are five things we learned from his interview.<\/p>\n

Ronson and Bruno Mars had a hard time finishing \u201cUptown Funk.\u201d
<\/strong>When asked about one of his most successful records, he recalled following Bruno Mars to several cities on the Unorthodox Jukebox<\/em> tour with a five-string bass in tow. Though they both loved the song and worked tirelessly on it, it wasn\u2019t an instant success. \u201cWe all had this special feeling about it, but then to get something to the finish line \u2026 A lot of times, the song nearly got thrown out. We\u2019d go to sessions for three or four days and he\u2019d be like, \u2018man it really breaks my heart, I guess we\u2019re just never going to finish this song,\u2019\u201d Ronson said. While the self-proclaimed perfectionist would stay up until four in the morning to finish a song, Mars is awake for hours after that. \u201cNobody wants to fall asleep in the studio with Bruno. He has this boundless energy.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

He chased after Cyrus until the right song finally came along.
<\/strong>After hearing Cyrus perform \u201c50 Ways to Leave Your Lover\u201d for Saturday Night Live<\/em>\u2019s 40th anniversary episode, Ronson knew he wanted to work with the singer\u2019s country side \u2013 but couldn\u2019t get a hold of her for four years. \u201cI just became obsessed with her voice and got her number, and was lightly stalking her for a couple years,\u201d he said, \u201cshe would just send a generic emoji back to the longest paragraph that I\u2019d write quite earnestly.\u201d A song he wrote with Ilsey Juber in 2018 turned out to be perfect timing; when Cyrus heard it, she immediately asked if Ronson was free the following Tuesday. \u201cNothing Breaks Like a Heart,\u201d featuring Cyrus is the ninth track off Late Night Feelings<\/em>. \u201cI didn\u2019t mean to make the breakup record or the personal record but it\u2019s just what happened,\u201d he says. His recent divorce from model Jos\u00e9phine de La Baumem played a large part in the series of heartbreak-themed songs. <\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Ronson, \u201cShallow\u201d wasn\u2019t the only song from A Star Is Born<\/em> that could\u2019ve won an Oscar.
<\/strong>\u201cI didn\u2019t know [Bradley Cooper] was going to write it into the script,\u201d Ronson says, \u201cI actually wanted to ask Bradley Cooper right there, cause there are so many other good songs in the film, \u2018Is this going to be the song you nominate?\u2019 But that seemed greedy.\u201d The scene where Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga\u2019s characters, Ally and Jack, first sing \u201cShallow\u201d is now one of the most recognizable moments of the film, aided by their live performance and Best Original Song win at the 91st Academy Awards. The song\u2019s impact lives far beyond of the movie screen, unlike the other tracks from A Star Is Born.<\/em> Still, Ronson maintains his humility, saying, \u201cI know \u2018Shallow\u2019 is the biggest song from it but any one of those songs \u2026 could have a good shot at winning the award.\u201d<\/p>\n

When working with legends like Paul McCartney, he can get a little too starstruck.|
<\/strong>\u201cI am a big fan, at the end of the day, so I do get excited,\u201d Ronson says. He\u2019s produced or written on albums for Duran Duran, Adele, Queens of the Stone Age, Lady Gaga, and Paul McCartney, and remembers fangirling in front of a few of them. \u201cYou have those couple of days, grace periods \u2026 to get over your nerves, and start to be there and deliver and do you what you were brought in to do.\u201d He referred to everything in then studio as \u201ckryptonite\u201d in his hands, the disbelief causing him to stutter. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing and it\u2019s also just as fucking terrifying.\u201d When working on New<\/em>, he says McCartney understood that \u201cyou\u2019re gonna drop some shit for the first day,\u201d and was kind to his loyal fan.<\/p>\n

He remembers Winehouse as talented and funny, not \u201cwild.\u201d
<\/strong>Ronson won Producer of the Year at the 2008 Grammy Awards the same year that Winehouse\u2019s Back to Black<\/em> won best Pop Vocal Album. He recalls her behaving stubbornly when it came to instrumental details, but they got along well when co-writing the title track and producing together. \u201cOne thing I really learned from Amy \u2026 she was very blunt,\u201d he said. \u201cI met her at a time when she was really, really together, so when people would say to me \u2018Oh, that Amy Winehouse, she\u2019s a bit wild, right?\u2019 I\u2019d be like, I have no idea what you\u2019re talking about. This girl comes to the studio every day at 12 and we write some great shit and go shoot pool.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rolling Stone\u2019s \u201cIn Conversation\u201d discussion series, a partnership with Ralph Lauren, began its first installment in conversation with Mark Ronson on September 25th. Live and decked out in Polo Ralph Lauren attire, Ronson chronicled his journey through the music industry and answered questions from staff writer Patrick Doyle. The two covered everything at the event […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-21 19:40:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}