--- title: Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars Without Music: Video description: Don't believe me? Just watch canonical: https://time.com/3714131/uptown-funk-without-music/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-18T22:46:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:36.217Z og:title: The 'Uptown Funk' Video With No Music Is Incredibly Awkward og:description: Don't believe me? Just watch og:url: https://time.com/3714131/uptown-funk-without-music/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The 'Uptown Funk' Video With No Music Is Incredibly Awkward twitter:description: Don't believe me? Just watch twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The 'Uptown Funk' Video With No Music Is Incredibly Awkward ## Video: 33 Iconic Beyonce Instagrams In 30 Seconds [Watch (HLS stream): 33 Iconic Beyonce Instagrams In 30 Seconds](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/UjflRACy.m3u8) (0:40)  _Published 2014-09-04. 33 Iconic Beyonce Instagrams In 30 Seconds_ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 18, 2015 10:46 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 18, 2015 10:46 PM UTC You’re likely hearing Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ ultra-catchy hit “Uptown Funk” everywhere you go these days, but the track sounds remarkably less catchy and funky when you remove one key element: the music. The same YouTube channel that stripped the music from Pharrell’s “Happy” — which produced [fascinating, eerie results](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPWgRbBTBwA) — is back with this latest experiment. [House of Halo](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHF0Bxys49VeBu8jR5oh6jg) took “Uptown Funk” and edited out (mostly) everything except the vocals. The video becomes very uncomfortable to watch, because it’s just Bruno Mars and friends strutting around and getting their shoes shined in silence. So this settles it. Let’s please keep the music in our pop songs. Thanks. _Read next:_ [_Mark Ronson on ‘Uptown Funk’: Pop Songs Don’t Need to Have Dumb Lyrics_](http://time.com/3713183/mark-ronson-uptown-funk-bruno-mars/?xid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3714131/uptown-funk-without-music/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3714131/uptown-funk-without-music/"},"headline":"The 'Uptown Funk' Video With No Music Is Incredibly Awkward","datePublished":"2015-02-18T22:46:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:36.217Z","description":"Don't believe me? Just watch","url":"https://time.com/3714131/uptown-funk-without-music/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3714131/uptown-funk-without-music/","name":"The 'Uptown Funk' Video With No Music Is Incredibly Awkward"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"33 Iconic Beyonce Instagrams In 30 Seconds","description":"33 Iconic Beyonce Instagrams In 30 Seconds","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/UjflRACy/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-09-04T18:38:50.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/UjflRACy.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3714131/uptown-funk-without-music/","duration":"PT40S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3714131/uptown-funk-without-music/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```