Mark Ronson, The Business Intl. - Bang Bang Bang ft. MNDR

What this video is

Released June 2010 as the lead single from Mark Ronson's third studio album Record Collection, 'Bang Bang Bang' marked a deliberate pivot from Ronson's covers-based output toward original composition. The track fused electronic pop, hip-hop, and a melody derived from the French-Canadian children's song 'Alouette,' reflecting the early 2010s trend of cosmopolitan genre collage. The video's Japanese variety-show…

Why it matters

A landmark of the UK electropop-nu-disco revival, 'Bang Bang Bang' synthesized 1980s Duran Duran synth aesthetics, A Tribe Called Quest-lineage hip-hop, and French nursery rhyme motifs into a festival-ready crossover single. Its visual treatment — directed by Warren Fu — established a template for…

The director

Warren Fu is an American music video director, illustrator, and designer, born in Chicago to Taiwanese parents and raised in California. He studied economics at UC Berkeley before joining Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic, where he served as an art…