In 2015, the music video for Mark Ronson's single " Uptown Funk", which featured Mars, received several awards, including Video of the Year at the Soul Train Music Awards and Best Pop Video-UK at the UK Music Video Awards. In 2013, videos for the singles " When I Was Your Man", " Treasure", which won Best Choreography at the latter event, and " Gorilla", which was controversial for its provocative dancing, were released. In 2012, Mars's music video for " Locked Out of Heaven", from his second album Unorthodox Jukebox (2012), won Best Male Video at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards. Mars followed with three other music videos in 2011, including " It Will Rain" from the soundtrack of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, which won another Best Male Video award at the MTV Video Music Award Japan. In 2011, he received various awards for the "Just the Way You Are" music video, including MTV Video Music Award Japan for Best Male Video and Favorite International Video at the Myx Music Awards. From his debut album Doo-Wops & Hooligans (2010), he released music videos for " Just the Way You Are", " Grenade", " Liquor Store Blues", and " The Lazy Song". A home video for "The Other Side" was issued, introducing Mars as a lead artist. After guest appearing in music videos, including " Long Distance" by Brandy and " Wavin' Flag (Coca-Cola Celebration Mix)" by K'naan, between 20, he was first featured on the chorus and videos for B.o.B.'s " Nothin' on You" and Travie McCoy's " Billionaire". Those who want their rich and modern synthesizer funk minus flash would do well to seek Bugz in the Attic's "Consequences," Dâm-Funk's "Galactic Fun," Amalia's "Welcome to Me," and Anderson Paak's "Am I Wrong," for starters.Bruno Mars performing in Houston, Texas, on November 24, 2010Īmerican singer-songwriter Bruno Mars has released one concert video and appeared in various music videos, films, television shows, and commercials. Like much of what precedes it, the song is a blast. Freeze pushed their genre forward by fusing hip-hop to what they learned from electronic post-disco R&B pioneered by Leon Sylvers III, Kashif, and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.
In living color, decked out with a rattling breakbeat and zipping bassline, "Finesse" revisits the era when producers like Teddy Riley, Dave "Jam" Hall, and Dr. Lead single "24K Magic" is a scrupulous compound of early-'80s funk tricks, another needed injection of good-time energy into commercial airwaves, but the album's true triumph is buried near the end - not that it takes long to get there - and scrapes the dawn of the '90s. He's often just ampin' like Bobby, yet the performances are undeniable, dealt out with all the determination and attitude of a kid who just bought a custom lavender Razz with his paper route money. Almost all of the material involves Mars in winking bad-boy player mode. The clock is turned back a couple more decades to passable strutting James Brown-isms in "Perm," while "Too Good to Say Goodbye," co-written by Babyface, draws its structure and certain components from early-'70s Philly soul. Sonically, '80s here means the gamut and the aftershocks felt the following decade, from the sparking midtempo groove in "Chunky," which recalls Shalamar even more than album two's "Treasure," to some full-blooded new jack swing moves. This is less an affected retro-soul pastiche - like, say, The Return of Bruno - than it is an amusing '80s-centric tribute to black radio. On his third album, Mars, joined primarily by old comrades Philip Lawrence, Brody Brown, and James Fauntleroy, sheds the reggae and new wave inspirations and goes all-out R&B. 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.
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