Mars has a funny problem-he is at his most appealing on the hooks he sold to other people. It doesn’t sound as if Mars is much worried about the uses that his songs are put to. Reggae-once, long ago, the music of a religious faith and of a dissatisfied underclass-is inoffensive and diluted here, now the worldwide homing signal for recently graduated party-time bros to kick back with a mini-keg. (McCoy intends to dunk on the President’s delegates in a basketball game.) Who is whose guest here? Mars and “Billionaire” are part of the fascinating slow melt that has made it almost impossible to figure out what is or isn’t a hip-hop song, especially those that end up in the Top Ten.
“Billionaire” has an everyman reggae lilt, and gives Mars a nice long time to sing his part, in which he dreams of extreme wealth and of being “on the cover of Forbes magazine.” You might assume that McCoy is the name of the singer, not the anonymous rapper who enters after forty-five seconds and has a few good punch lines, at best. The disobedient and fraught energy that hip-hop brought into pop is absent from Mars’s music, even when he’s collaborating with rappers. What can be considered mildly surprising about Mars and others in his cohort-like the young singer Taio Cruz and the younger, omnipresent Justin Bieber-is his unworried, uncomplicated embrace of entertainment. (That’s a guess, based on where the money is-ask Rod Stewart.)
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His looks are sufficiently delicate to make him appear as young as any fan wants to believe he is, but he’s got a strong jaw that will let him ease into full manhood without any trouble when he decides to ditch the party numbers and go for the all-ballad approach. Mars’s current ubiquity is unremarkable-he’s a light, dashing figure who can write melodies that lodge quickly and repeat painlessly. It took him a few years in California to find his feet, but is that exactly struggling? Mars describes the outfit as “straight Partridge Family” his Elvis routine led to his appearing, when he was five years old, in the 1992 film “Honeymoon in Vegas,” as “midget Elvis.” Mars is a lifelong pro. There is little threat or discontent in Mars, or in his work, and it’s no surprise to learn that he spent his childhood impersonating Elvis, in a Waikiki hotel, in a family band called the Love Notes. (Mars often cites Jackson as an inspiration, speaking of the unsurprising.) Although Wilson, unlike Mars, conveyed pain and joy in even his most anodyne numbers, he had the same kind of permanent approachability that Mars exudes. Mars has an easily marketed wholesome feel that predates much of pop itself-he evokes, both physically and tonally, Jackie Wilson, the sixties pop star who inspired Michael Jackson perhaps more than any other single performer. 1 singles, “Just the Way You Are” and “Grenade,” which is still at No. Both were enormous hits this year, and set the stage for Mars to push his début album, “Doo-Wops & Hooligans,” which has already spawned two No. Mars and his associates were also involved in two songs on which he sings and subsequently steals from the artist of record-“Nothin’ on You,” by the rapper B.o.B., and “Billionaire,” by the sort-of rapper Travie McCoy. He and his songwriting team, the Smeezingtons, helped Cee-Lo Green create his inescapable bit of Motown mimicry and comic profanity “Fuck You!,” which swept the Internet in the fall. When needed, please warn about loud volume/flashing lights/etc.ĭon't post about the same song (etc.) more than once every 10 days.In his permanent approachability, Bruno Mars evokes the sixties pop star Jackie Wilson.
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