So what's our thoughts on "Uptown Funk"?

[The Curmudgeon]

There are few pop songs with as strange a beginning as Mark Ronson's monster hit "Uptown Funk." It debuted, sort of, in early December, when Simon Cowell had one of his X Factor people perform the song before the original was even released onto radio, a genuine first for any song. In a first for the X Factor, that live performance of a song no-one had heard up to that point shot straight to number one, meaning Mark Ronson had to rush-release his version by almost a month before people were sick of hearing it before it was even released.

That too shot straight to number one, being momentarily replaced by the X Factor winner (see, told you it was a weird story) and then back to number one again for a total of eight weeks.

People have heralded the success of this and the earlier Daft Punk "Get Lucky" track as a return to a more 70's inspired funk sound. Easy to see why, this and Get Lucky were two of the biggest cross-over hit singles in years, and they - gasp - featured real vocalists and real musicians as well.

So what do you think of "Uptown Funk?" Do you think it's cut-and-paste copycat stuff, or a truly inspired piece of pop funk for a digital age?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPf0YbXqDm0

[Ben]

Well... I don't hate it. That's about the best I can say for it.

[InvisibleWolfMan]

I wasn't sure what to make of it first, but I could immediately hear the James Brown-esqe funk that Prince so masterfully adapted with his cohorts to make the Minneapolis Sound. Every time I hear it now, I think it's quite brilliant and the only thing that stops this from being greater is the fact that it is not The Time nor His Royal Badness performing it.

[trashcanman]

It's been done and done better, but a rehash of old good music is better than the rehashes of new terrible music radio usually goes with. And welcome back, Wolfie.