Bruno Mars – 24K Magic (2016)
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Critically-acclaimed international megastar Bruno Mars has unveiled his first piece of solo music in nearly four years. “Twenty-four Karat Magic” – emphatically – not an album with which to man the barricades, but Mars manages to deliver a lot of conspicuous consumption with more charm than boorishness. Obsessed as it is with surfaces, “24K Magic” packs considerable musical depth in its slavish attention to detail. The cold nihilism of contemporary R&B is anathema to Mars, an old-school song-and-dance man, and so 24K Magic’s vibe of choice revisits the era of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and new jack swing – early 90s 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Almost all of the material involves Mars in winking bad-boy player mode. 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. 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. 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. 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. Like much of what precedes it, the song is a blast. 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.
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Written and produced by Shampoo Press & Curl, '24K Magic' (pronounced twenty-four karat magic) sees Bruno bringing the bounce to his newest single. The multi-GRAMMY-winning Mars has also announced his highly-anticipated third studio album - also dubbed 24K Magic. 24K Magic by Bruno Mars on WhoSampled. Discover all of this album's music connections, watch videos, listen to music, discuss and download.
01 – 24K Magic
02 – Chunky
03 – Perm
04 – That’s What I Like
05 – Versace On The Floor
06 – Straight Up & Down
07 – Calling All My Lovelies
08 – Finesse
09 – Too Good To Say Goodbye
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The world is quite excited about Bruno Mars’ forthcoming new album 24K Magic. The lead single has been sitting comfortably in the top 5 of Billboard Hot 100 charts for a few weeks now and the follow up song ‘Versace On The Floor‘ is already becoming a regular part of everyone’s playlists. '24K Magic' (pronounced 'twenty-four karat magic') is a song by American singer and songwriter Bruno Mars. It serves as the lead single from his third studio album of the same name, and was released on October 7, 2016 as a digital download by Atlantic Records. 24K Magic (pronounced 'twenty-four karat magic') is the third studio album by American singer Bruno Mars. It was released on November 18, 2016 by Atlantic Records as the follow-up to his second studio album Unorthodox Jukebox (2012). Recording sessions took place from 2015 to 2016 and the production was done entirely by Shampoo Press & Curl.
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*24K Magic, *the album, sticks to the same well-trod path. It often comes off as a one-man recreation of Mark Ronson’s similarly retro-fetishist *Uptown Special**—*Ronson himself was tapped early on as a potential collaborator—with one key difference: all roles here are filled by Mars.
24K Magic (stylized as XXIVk Magic) is the third studio album by American singer and songwriter Bruno Mars. It was released worldwide on November 18, 2016, by Atlantic Records. 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.[1] Recording sessions for the album took place between Fall 2015 and September 2016 at Glenwood Place Studios in Burbank, California.[2] The production of the album was handled by newly formed production trio Shampoo Press & Curl, consisting of Mars, Brody Brown and Philip Lawrence.[3]
Artist: Bruno Mars
Album: 24K Magic
Genre: Pop, R&B, R&B/Soul
Quality: 320Kbps MP3
Track list:
1. 24K Magic
2. Chunky
3. Perm
4. That's What I Like
5. Versace on the Floor
6. Straight Up & Down
7. Calling All My Lovelies
8. Finesse
9. Too Good to Say Goodbye
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On October 7, 2016, Mars released the lead single from the album, called '24K Magic', along with its music video. He also unveiled the album's official artwork and a link to the album's pre-order on iTunes.[42] On the same date, the album was made available for pre-order worldwide via Mars' official site, offering four different options to purchase.[43] 'That's What I Like' was released as the second single on January 30, 2017.[44] 'Versace on the Floor' was released as the album's third single in the United States on June 13, 2017.[45] Meanwhile a remixed version of the song by French DJ David Guetta was released as the album's third international single on June 27, 2017.[46] It had previously been premiered as the album's first and only promotional single on November 4, 2016.[47][48] 'Chunky' was first released in Australia as the album's fourth single, on November 27, 2017.[49][50] A remixed version of 'Finesse' featuring American rapper Cardi B was released as the album's fifth overall single on January 4, 2018.
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Aside from a couple guest production jobs by former collaborators Jeff Bhasker and Emile Haynie, the album is largely produced by Shampoo Press & Curl—a mildly reorganized incarnation of the Smeezingtons. And as Mars boasted in pre-album press, there are no features.