What Sticks

Mark Ronson and Lykke Li made Late Night Feelings and the video’s genuinely compelling. There’s a charge to it, a tension between two people who know what they’re doing.

Ronson’s been around long enough that people take him seriously. British producer based in New York since the nineties, started as a club DJ doing cheap gigs and just kept ascending. The fashion world adopted hip-hop for a moment and he rode that wave—worked with Miley Cyrus, built a solid reputation. But he got smart about it. Decided the music itself mattered more than the scene. He still DJs on Friday nights, still plays clubs with friends. But production’s his real work.

Lykke Li doesn’t vanish into a collaboration. Her songs have their own weight—”I Follow Rivers,” Little Bit. Pairing her with Ronson felt like something that could work, not just a producer hiring a vocalist.

The video’s intimate without being calculated. There’s a tension running through it that suggests something real existed between them before they filmed it. Most promotional material feels made to go viral or impress. This one doesn’t. I watched it more than once.