Throughout most of the "retro" video, Ronson, Mars and The Hooligans are singing, walking and dancing in the middle of the streets. Ronson is seen mostly lingering in the background, while Mars takes the spotlight. At one point, during the video, Ronson and Mars get their hair put in perm curlers at a hair salon and their shoes shined. As Mars sings "Fill my cup, put some liquor in it", one of his bandmates does so. The singer also yells at his chauffeur to get the limousine as he, Ronson and the band "jive" next to it. Towards the end of the video, Ronson, Mars, The Hooligans and Jeff Bhasker perform the song in a closed set to several people. Joe Lynch of "Billboard" praised the video, finding it to be as "ebullient" as the song, calling Ronson and Mars "impossibly cool". "Rap-Up" praised Mars' and The Hooligans' dance moves. Tom Breihan of "Stereogum" said, "I had no idea [Mars] had "ersatz Morris Day" in his arsenal." Ryan Reed from "Rolling Stone" called the video "goofy". The clip made the cut on several lists of best music videos of the year. Lyndsey Parker, also writing in "Rolling Stone" felt Ronson and Mars complement Morris Day and The Time's "funky-fresh-to-death tradition well", ranking it number six on the list of 20 videos. On its list of the 20 Best Music Videos of 2014 compiled by "Paste", Dacey Orr ranked the video at number 11 saying it "has all of the fun and embellishment and color and choreography to be a real classic". On the "Stereogum" 40 Best Music Videos of 2014, Breihan placed it at number 25. He wrote, "imagine a world in which circa-1986 Jonathan Demme had directed a movie about Morris Day & The Time". Harriet Gibsone writing for "The Guardian" found the video has "super-slick, Jackson-like group choreography, glossy production and retro styling". The video received multiple awards and nominations. In 2015, it was nominated for British Video of the Year at the BRIT Awards. At the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, it received nominations for Video of the Year, Best Pop Video, Best Collaboration and Best Direction and an award for Best Male Video.