You Must Watch Sam Neill, A Walking Beam Of Light, Play ‘Uptown Funk’ On The Ukulele
He dropped into Mark Ronson's livestream to blow the roof off the place with his cover.
Truly we do not deserve Sam Neill.
The beloved actor has spent the last few months transforming into one of the most popular celebrities on the planet, in no small part thanks to his extremely wholesome Twitter account. On it, Neill wanders around his grassy paddocks while talking to his farmyard friends, including a delightful hungry pig and a duck named after Charlie Pickering. It’s basically as good as internet content gets, to be honest.
Now, Neill has doubled down on that aesthetic by popping into Mark Ronson’s coronavirus livestream to blast through ‘Uptown Funk’ on ukulele.
“Some songs just get you straight in the heart,” Neill said while introducing his brief ditty. “And this is one of them.
“It was written by the great Mark Ronson, and covered by the great Bruno Mars. And this is my version. I’ll try not to cry.”
From there, the actor launched into his own haunted, reverb-heavy cover of ‘Uptown Funk’. And ya know what? It’s great. Sometimes with stuff like this, the end product is, at best, cute. But this is a genuinely innovative and emotionally inventive cover of one of the great pop songs of the last 50 years or so.
Drink it up. And remember: Sam Neill is the best of us.