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I was just recently listening to the song “Marry You” by Bruno Mars. Just to realise that I felt that whole song, that whole album in fact to the deepest corners of my soul, as a 10 year old. So passionately. So toxic. Who did I want to love bomb that badly ??.. I was 10 !!

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Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops & Hooligans

Bruno Mars just released a new album, entitled The Romantic, and it’s… Okay. When I called about it, I thought it was okay, but nothing special. He still has a great voice, but the album was more or less what we’ve always heard from him. There were some Latin flavors on it, but it was pretty sterile pop, disco, and R&B. Listening to that album made me want to go back to the one album that I haven’t heard from them, 2010’s Doo-Wops & Hooligans. This isn’t the first time people heard Bruno Mars, and his history is actually really cool; he came up in Hawaii as a child entertainer, and then eventually became a behind-the-scenes songwriter. He finally decided to make a solo record, but he released a few features and singles before that.

I first heard him on Gym Class Heroes’ frontman Travie McCoy’s song “Billionaire,” which he helped write and perform on. I thought his voice was really good, but I didn’t really listen to him until 2012’s Unorthodox Jukebox. If there are two words that described his early sound, it would be that, because that album was a hodge podge of genres and sounds from the last 50 years by that point; genres like soul, funk, R&B, gospel, pop, and rock were represented, but debut album, Doo-Woops & Hooligans, had a diverse sound as well. In fact, that album showed Mars as being a showman that could pull off multiple styles of music without feeling like he was trying on different hats to see what fit best.

Bruno Mars genuinely loves music, and he loves all kinds, but people did think that he didn’t have an identity. There’s an argument to be made there, especially when his first two albums were just a random assortment of sounds, but the hits were there. “Grenade,” “Marry You,” “The Lazy Song,” and “Just The Way You Are” are some massive songs from the era that people still listen to today. Despite not hearing the whole album at the time, I’ve always wanted to hear it, so I finally pulled the trigger on it, and I’ve been listening to it a few times over the last week.

Truthfully, this album’s pretty good, but it’s too diverse for its own good. I felt the same way about Lady Gaga’s Born This Way from 2011. I just reviewed that, too, and while I liked it, the album had a lot going on, but there were two key differences: the album is way longer and the sound is a bit different. Born This Way is more electronic, and there are many kinds of EDM that are presented on the album, but Doo-Wops has a lot of classic styles of music. It kind of sounds like turning the radio on, whether it’s incorporating over the top pop, rock, R&B, soul, doo-wop, reggae, or folk, just to name a few styles of music. The big singles are the draw here, namely “Grenade,” “Just The Way You Are,” “The Lazy Song,” and “Marry You,” among others, but they’re still catchy and fun all these years later.

Bruno as a vocalist sounds great, especially for a debut, and the songs are written well, but they’re written for a pop album. When I say that, I mean they’re catchy, slick, and upbeat songs that are perfect for pop music radio; if you want good pop music, you won’t be disappointed, but I can’t say this album is influential, long lasting, or anything like that. They’re fun in context of the pop canon, and I’ve wanted to add some more pop albums into the collection. I don’t have a lot of pop, R&B, or soul albums, so I’ve been wanting to rectify that. I’m nostalgic for 2010s pop, so that’s what I wanted, and this is an essential album of the era. I’m not totally in love with this album, but I like it more than his later material, although 2016’s 24K Magic is a great little album that has more of a focused sound through it.