Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Eric Nally, Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee & Grandmaster Caz - Downtown

It sounds like "Thrift Shop" meets "Uptown Funk". If you haven't heard this song yet, now you know what to expect.

I happened to stay up very late last night (3 am, to anyone interested), and when searching on Facebook before going to bed, it turns out Macklemore just released a new song, and my staying up late was rewarded immediately.

I've watched the video clip 3 times in the last day and heard the song on the radio twice already, but all I can say is that I am hooked! I'm just loving this.

For me, this made more of an impact on me than "Uptown Funk" did on first listen, and I also got to watch the music video when it was at a similar viewership count to "Thrift Shop" (in the tens of thousands), so it's going to be hard for me to not compare it to either of those songs.

As a matter of fact, I think I'm already starting to like "Uptown Funk" more because of this song, which is good, because that is a song I always wanted to like more than I actually did.

I'm not sure whether I should like or dislike this song though. Of course I've put forward the reasons for liking it, but a reason I should dislike it is that after listening to this, every other song on the radio just sounds so dull and lifeless in comparison to this. I was never too impressed by "How Deep Is Your Love", but upon listening to that after this, it sounded more boring than ever.

In the end though, of course I'm going to stick with liking it. It's so much fun to me, and could even become my favourite song of his.

Now all I have to do is make sure I don't over-listen to this song, and it's all good.

Hopefully it make a big dent on the charts.

EDIT: I should have done this sooner, but a definite 6*, only my second of the year from memory.

Pretty much everything on the radio in the last couple of months has paled in comparison to this, what with its unrelenting energy, tenacity, humour and irreverence.

Once again, and this is a question I'm asking myself more and more, why would I want to listen to anything else when I could be listening to this instead.

It's good to see that it made #1, only to be torn from that position by some boring drag of a song, which, to me, feels pretty flavourless and dull compared to this.

And I officially like "Uptown Funk" now, mainly due to this (as well as not hearing that on the radio all the time anymore). I'll get around to re-doing my review for that song sometime.

Omi, it looks like you have some competition for best song of the year.

There are only three real contenders for best hit song of the year (this, Omi/Felix Jaehn's "Cheerleader" and The Weeknd's "Can't Feel My Face"). I've been thinking it over for about a month now, but I'm still not any closer to a final answer.

But anyway, back to this song, it's awesome, and may even become my second favourite from him (it's in the same zone as "Thrift Shop"). But as for becoming my favourite Macklemore song ("Can't Hold Us"), I don't think that it is going to get to that level for me. Time will tell.

5* -> 6*
Zuletzt editiert: 07.11.2015 12:41