{"id":118508,"date":"2024-09-27T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T00:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/09\/27\/10-years-later-vance-joy-recalls-the-riptide-uptown-funk-michelle-pfeiffer-battle\/"},"modified":"2024-09-27T00:01:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T00:01:25","slug":"10-years-later-vance-joy-recalls-the-riptide-uptown-funk-michelle-pfeiffer-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/09\/27\/10-years-later-vance-joy-recalls-the-riptide-uptown-funk-michelle-pfeiffer-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"10 years later, Vance Joy recalls the “Riptide”\/”Uptown Funk” Michelle Pfeiffer battle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At the end of 2014 and into 2015,\u00a0not one but two songs referencing the actor Michelle Pfeiffer<\/strong> were charting on the\u00a0Billboard<\/em> Hot 100: Vance Joy<\/strong>‘s “Riptide,” and Mark Ronson<\/strong> and Bruno Mars<\/strong>‘ “Uptown Funk.” A decade later, Vance\u00a0reminds ABC Audio that his song was released first, but he bears no ill will toward the “Uptown Funk” guys.<\/p>\n

“That’s a good song, and it’s proved to be a good song ’cause it’s so popular,” Vance, born\u00a0James Keogh<\/strong>, says.<\/p>\n

On the off chance that Ronson and Mars did hear “Riptide” while they were working on “Uptown Funk,” Keogh doesn’t think they purposefully copied his song.<\/p>\n

“I think it would’ve come out in a really subliminal way,” Keogh says. “Then it’s like, ‘OK, well, it’s perfect, we can’t beat it, we’re not gonna say another person’s name,’ ’cause it won’t have the same power.'”<\/p>\n

In remembering how he first came up with the Pfeiffer reference for “Riptide,” Keogh shares he was “obsessed with the Batman Returns<\/em> movie” as a kid.<\/p>\n

“She was an amazing Catwoman,” Keogh says. “I watched that film so many times, I got it for Christmas when I was, like,\u00a07 or 8.”<\/p>\n

In addition to knowing that his song came first, Keogh is comforted by the fact that Pfeiffer is aware of her shout-out in “Riptide” and even sent him a gift.<\/p>\n

“I guess we follow each other on Instagram,” Keogh says. “She has a fragrance that she’s created, and she sent me a sampler kit to my house in Melbourne.”<\/p>\n

“Riptide” appears on the debut Vance Joy album, 2014’s\u00a0\ufeffDream Your Life Away<\/em>\ufeff. Vance is celebrating its 10th\u00a0anniversary on a U.S. tour, which continues Thursday in New York City.<\/p>\n

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