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Music producerMark Ronsonsays he identifies as sapiosexual.
On Thursday’s episode ofGood Morning Britain, Ronson, 44, revealed the news after learning the term backstage.
By definition, a sapiosexual person is “someone who finds intelligence and the human mind to be the most sexually attractive feature for a potential sexual relationship,” according toPsychology Today.
Ronson and his wife, French model Joséphine De La Baume, split in 2017 after six years of marriage. Their divorce was finalized in 2018.
“Yeah, I didn’t know that there was a word for it,” Ronson said onGood Morning Britain.
“We were all arguing backstage in the dressing room with a couple of your producers,” he continued. “And yes, I feel like I identify as sapiosexual.”
Mark Ronson and Josephine De La Baume.Karwai Tang/Getty
Ronson’s declaration comes a few months after heconfirmed he was datingSaturday Night Livetalent executive Rebecca Schwartz.
In his cover story forWSJ‘s March Men’s Style Issue, the award-winning musician — who co-wrote “Shallow” withLady GagaforA Star Is Born— confirmed he has a new love. Ronson and Schwartz were spotted at the Oscars together in February.
As Ronson put on a Supreme varsity jacket during the interview, he mentioned that the jacket belonged to his girlfriend — “whose very mention seems to brighten his expression,” according to the publication.
“Yeah, I am in a relationship,” Ronson toldWSJ. “It’s good. I’m dating a nice girl.”
Mark Ronson and Rebecca Schwartz.Splash News
It is not immediately clear as to whether or not the two are still an item. (The Sunreportsthe two split in May.)
During hisWSJinterview, Ronson also opened up about how his split with De La Baum impacted his music.
On his fifth album,Late Night Feelings, which dropped in March, Ronson collaborated withMiley Cyrusfor the track “Nothing Breaks Like a Heart.”
He shared that he got a tattoo of a cracked heart-shaped disco ball on the inside of his right arm — the logo for the song — to not only commemorate the project but to also cover an earlier tattoo of the name “Joséphine” inside a red heart.
Lady Gaga and Mark Ronson.Kevin Mazur/VF19/WireImage
“It wasn’t conscious — I wasn’t like, ‘Okay, I’m gonna make this my breakup album,’” Ronson toldWSJ. “I don’t want to seem exploitative. [De La Baume has her] own pain and trauma. Both of us are… living it. The simple fact of the matter is I was going through these things, and I had to make a record. They were gonna collide at some point.”
“This was writing from the point of view of an emotion first, then figuring out the beat,” he toldWSJ. “What’s funny is this is my most melancholy record but my most consistently dancey record.”
When Ronson wrote “Shallow” with Gaga, which she then performed withBradley CooperinA Star Is Born, it was during a time that his marriage to de La Baume was struggling and also when Gaga had justended thingswith her then-fiancé, Taylor Kinney.
“We were all going through relationship s—” he said toWSJ., recalling the sessions with fellow co-writers Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt. “Everybody was willing to bring their troubles to that song.”
Ronson said writing the song was “like therapy, even though there’s so much hurt in this song.”
source: people.com
