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Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson could easily be dry. This is, after all, a music producer making a show about music production, and he talks shop on topics like autotune, drum machines, reverb and distortion. But rather than coming off as a boring-but-useful YouTube tutorial,
Watch the Sound remains engaging and approachable, even when it gets technical.
From the very first moments,
Watch the Sound is entertaining without shying away from the nitty gritty of music production. It begins with host Mark Ronson describing how he owns negative 25 percent of his hit Ooh Wee ; because of having to pay for the prominent samples of Boney M s Sunny and Dennis Coffey s Scopio, he actually loses money every time it s played. It s a funny story that the dry, deadpan Ronson delivers in his usual straightforward manner. He doesn t exactly ooze charisma, but he s got the knowledge and the star power to serve as an engaging host.