While the background and lyrics of the song are simple, it sets Bruno up as a rich man ready to spoil his love.
Those things include beautiful beach houses, extravagant foods, and fancy cars. In the song, Bruno tells his lady love all the things he likes. "That's What I Like" is the fourth song on 24K MAGIC, the album's second radio single, and the winner of three 2018 Grammys: Song of the Year, Best R&B Song, and Best R&B Performance. Originally released as the fourth and last single of Doo-Wops and Hooligans, "Marry You" is about Bruno falling head over heels for a girl at first sight. We were almost in tears, just the power of music…the power of what it is we can create." The first time we saw one of those YouTube videos, it changed everything for us. "We always thought it was a good song and catchy, but we didn’t think it would affect pop culture the way that it has. "It was more of a racy kind of idea, as opposed to this classic marriage tune it has become," he said. Songwriter Phillip Lawrence once talked about the song's creation on American Songwriter. The pop song features a unique use of wedding bells that make it stand out amongst other popular love songs.
"Marry You"Ī song that's been the background track for countless wedding proposals, "Marry You" is a fun-loving tune inspired by the spontaneity of Vegas marriages. While it may be hard to choose favorites, here are Live365's picks for the Top 10 Bruno Mars Songs! 10. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with several others also peaking within the top 5. On top of that, he has had seven singles reach No. Bruno Mars has eleven Grammys, four Guinness World Records, and a 3x certified Platinum album ( 24K MAGIC), and his iconic 2015 Super Bowl performance drew in a record-breaking total viewership of 115.3 million. The singer/songwriter has come a long way since his early days as the world's youngest Elvis impersonator in Hawaii. Paak that debuted during this year's Grammys), his solo discography is filled with hits, meaning a ranking is in order! As of November 2018, the album has accumulated three million album-equivalent units in the United States.On January 28, 2018, at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards, 24K Magic won the awards for Best Engineered Album/Non-Classical, Best R&B Album, and Album of the Year.Īs part of promotion for the album, Mars embarked on his third worldwide concert tour, the 24K Magic World Tour (2017–2018)."Stop! Wait a minute." Did you really think we wouldn't cover Bruno Mars's greatest hits on the Live365 blog? Besides Bruno spending time in the limelight recently due to his work with Silk Sonic (the R&B collaboration between him and Anderson. "That's What I Like" became Mars's seventh number-one song on the US Billboard Hot 100. Five singles were released from the album: the title track, "That's What I Like", "Versace on the Floor", "Chunky", and "Finesse" (featuring Cardi B). As such, the album stayed atop the US R&B albums chart for 21 weeks. It is also the first album by Mars to enter the R&B and hip hop charts in the United States, ranked by Billboard magazine. The production of the album was handled by newly formed production trio Shampoo Press & Curl, consisting of Mars, Brody Brown and Philip Lawrence.The album is considered by some music critics to be influenced by 1980s and early 1990s pop nostalgia. Recording sessions for the album took place between fall 2015 and September 2016 at Glenwood Place Studios in Burbank, California. The follow-up to Mars's successful second album, Unorthodox Jukebox (2012), it explores genres similar to those of its predecessor, such as soul and funk, while Mars and his team focused on capturing the R&B sound that was very popular in the 1990s, described by the singer as the reason he fell in love with music in the first place. It was released worldwide on November 18, 2016, by Atlantic Records. 24K Magic (stylized as XXIVK Magic) is the third studio album by American singer Bruno Mars.