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.
Released four years after the multi-platinum Unorthodox Jukebox, 24K Magic -- or XXIVK Magic, if you're foolish enough to go by the cover -- might as well be considered the full-length sequel to "Uptown Funk," Bruno Mars' 2014 hit collaboration with Mark Ronson.
Embracing change and doing it with a no nonsense nine track project, 24K Magic is simplistically spectacularBruno Mars’ new album is everything fans and critics hoped it would be.
Bruno Mars’s album is a tidy, if derivative, antidote to today’s overthought, overwrought pop.