Three Shots

"Bang Bang Bang" landed in 2010 as the lead single from Mark Ronson’s Record Collection, and it earns its title immediately: MNDR’s cold vocoder, Q-Tip doing exactly what Q-Tip does, and a synth-funk production sitting in a strange pocket between retro and genuinely modern. Ronson had already proven he could assemble pop records better than almost anyone working, but this one had a looser, weirder edge—less polished than his earlier work, and better for it. The kind of track that lodges in your skull for three days before you consciously register that you’re enjoying it.