In this comment sits what could be read as Mars’ mission statement. “ You just needed a beautiful melody, you needed a beautiful voice, and you needed to connect!” “ There were no TRICKS,” Mars once enthused. In addition to Eric Clapton and Joe Cocker’s love ballads, ‘Just the Way You Are’ paid homage to the ’50s doo-wop and Motown hits Mars’ father played him as a child. It’s exactly the same principle, the same thing: just get people on the dancefloor, get the girls smiling.” “ That’s why cavemen were hitting stones to get everybody around the fire and get them feeling sexy.
“ 95 percent of music is about love,” Mars stated to NME in 2016. Love is, after all, pop’s greatest of emotions. I’m just telling a woman she looks beautiful the way she is – and, let’s be honest, what woman doesn’t wanna hear those lyrics?” “Y ou know, there’s no mind-boggling lyrics or twists in the story,” Mars reflected, “ they just come directly from the heart… There’s nothing mind-blowing about it. Talking with Blues and Soul in 2010, Mars shared that he wrote the song in the style of ’70s hits like Joe Cocker’s ‘You Are So Beautiful’ and Eric Clapton’s ‘ Wonderful Tonight’. Its melody was clear and its simple sentiment easy to understand. Mars’ debut single built on this experience. And of all those present it was women who reacted the most.
When he sang love songs he noticed they drew the strongest reaction. Bruno Mars Knew What WorkedĪ performing vocalist since age 4, Bruno Mars knew what worked. I don’t think he could have sung that song.” Bruno Mars poses for a publicity shoot. “ I personally think was better for ,” he later shared of passing up on the song while in conversation with Billboard magazine, “ like ‘F*ck You’ was better for me. The Smezingtons had worked with Green for hit single ‘ Fuck You‘ in August 2010 and they were sure the song was the perfect follow-up. ‘Just the Way You Are’ was originally offered to Gnarls Barkley‘s CeeLo Green. It arrived in the form of a tune Mars and The Smeezingtons almost gave away. Following this, Mars was well placed to realise his ambition of launching a solo career. Establishing a name for himself behind the scenes, Mars then made guest vocalist appearances on chart-topping hits from B.o.B and Travie McCoy. (He would later find success imitating Michael Jackson.)Īn industry outsider, Mars found early success writing and recording hits for other artists as part of production team The Smeezingtons. It was a musical family and Mars followed in the tradition by becoming an Elvis impersonator at age 4. His parents were of Puerto Rican and Filipino heritage. Bruno Mars was born in October 1986 in Waikiki, Hawaii.
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