bodyType

customContents

entityId

entityUuid

articlePageQuery

filter

article

articleBaseAdvertisingInfoArticle

articleListArticle

articleSeoArticle

hooksArticleAcknowledgementGateOverlayArticle

hooksTrackPageViewArticle

hooksContentInterestArticle

articleLinkingDataContent

hooksAmpRedirectArticle

articleSchemaContent

liveArticle

advertZone

sentiment

contentLock

topics

types

sections

paywallTypes

createdDate

publishedDate

sponsorType

urlAlias

moreOnThisArticles

commentCount

authorLocations

authors

corrections

displaySlideShow

multimediaEmbed

printHeadline

seriesContainer

articleSpeeches

socialHeadline

headline

images

flag

firstTopic

glossary

flattenTypeIds

image

relatedLinks

relatedNewsletters

__typename

sponsor

pdfFiles

seriesReverseOrder

series

disableOffPlatformContent

published

updatedDate

summary

subHeadline

body

keywords

readingTime

customTimezone

liveContents

Associated Press



Unorthodox Jukebox 
	Bruno Mars
	Atlantic Records
 
Bruno Mars likes to mix it up. Almost every song on his second album dabbles in a different genre.
The singer-songwriter-producer shows growing sophistication, musically and lyrically, on Unorthodox Jukebox, a retro-pop collection of 10 tracks with elements of rock, funk, country and reggae. There's even a heartbreaking piano ballad.
The 27-year-old - born Peter Gene Hernandez - hinted at his versatility on his 2010 debut, Doo-Wops & Hooligans, a set of love songs that yielded the hit singles Grenade and Just the Way You Are, which won the best male pop vocal performance Grammy Award. He draws from a broader range of musical influences in Unorthodox Jukebox, recalling Michael Jackson, Parliament and even The Police. And there's still love, but also lots of sex.
He channels Prince on Gorilla, all prowess and desire: "You got your legs up in the sky," Mars sings. "You know what I like. You're a dirty little lover." He proclaims "your sex takes me to paradise" on the 1980s-tinged single Locked Out of Heaven. And on the island-style reggae tune Show Me, he urges his lover: "You say you're a woman who knows what she likes, then show me."
But a man can't live on sex alone. The heartfelt If I Knew is reminiscent of a gently country Teen Angel, and Mars is at his best on the bare piano ballad When I Was Your Man.
Sandy Cohen (AP)
 


Album of the week: Unorthodox Jukebox

Bruno Mars

Lifestyle

Arts

Bruno Mars likes to mix it up. Almost every song on his second album dabbles in a different genre. The singer-songwriter-producer shows growing sophistication, musically and lyrically, on Unorthodox Jukebox, a retro-pop collection of 10 tracks with elements of rock, funk, country and reggae. There's even a heartbreaking piano ballad.
