24K Magic

On his latest, “Uptown Funk” vocalist and animatronic sequined suit Bruno Mars compresses all of his various personae into one: The retro song-and-dance man who happens to be really, really horny.

After Marvin Gaye’s family won a lawsuit against Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams for copyright infringement over the hit “Blurred Lines,” it stood to reason that similar lawsuits would follow. In late October, that suspicion came to fruition: The Minneapolis band Collage sued Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson for…

Half an hour of party tunes that sound like the best bits of ’90s R&B. '24K Magic' reviewed by the NME team.

Our take on pop superstar's third album.

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Bruno Mars charms his way through these opulently produced 90s-style R&B tunes

Bruno Mars’s album is a tidy, if derivative, antidote to today’s overthought, overwrought pop.