Plot Summary

A young girl opens the video by singing the French-Canadian folk song “Alouette,” before the action cuts to a bizarre television broadcast. Mark Ronson appears as a guest on a flamboyant Japanese-style talk show, where a conversation about his music suddenly turns into a full performance. Q-Tip and MNDR join him amid synthesizers, split screens, neon graphics, and exaggerated choreography. The clip is bookended by a mock vintage sandwich-spread commercial and an intensely dramatic tennis match, giving the whole thing the feel of a lost broadcast from an alternate 1970s or ’80s.

Factoids & Trivia

Warren Fu directed the video, which premiered online on June 14, 2010. It was one of Fu’s earliest major music-video projects and helped establish his distinctive retro-futurist style.

The production credits include Brandon Cox as director of photography, Benji Bamps as art director, Madeline Weaks as stylist, and Justin Krook as offline editor. The video was produced by Partizan.

Fu’s design combines references to vintage television, Japanese variety shows, American music programs, and science-fiction aesthetics. Its red, black, and neon palette has often been compared to the visual language of Knight Rider and early electronic futurism.

The video’s playful use of split screens, graphic overlays, deliberately artificial sets, and abrupt changes in tone makes it resemble a television program assembled from several unrelated genres.

“Bang Bang Bang” draws musically and lyrically from “Alouette,” the traditional French-Canadian children’s song. The girl singing at the beginning provides a direct visual link to that source.

The song features Q-Tip and MNDR, whose appearances are integrated into the studio-performance sections rather than treated as separate cameos.

Fu had previously worked at Industrial Light & Magic, and his interest in retro visions of the future can be seen throughout the clip. The video’s effects are intentionally stylized rather than designed to look seamless or contemporary.

“Bang Bang Bang” was the lead single from Record Collection, released under the name Mark Ronson & The Business Intl. The single reached No. 6 on the UK Singles Chart.

The clip was later ranked No. 9 on a 2010 list of the year’s best music videos, reflecting how strongly its carefully constructed visual world stood out from more conventional performance promos.