bruno mars got arrested for cocaine possession

if you don't want your fav record hated on maybe don't bring it up out of the blue in an unrelated thread fyi

lol at u taking me serious and missing the thread ref

i didn't really understand the coke post but i assume your intention wasn't to turn the thread into a fiona apple hatefest either way

i'm playing the long game

so is Barack Obama.

i really like "when i was your man"

got a "someone like you 2K13" vibe off it

i should check out this album

"if i knew" is amazingly great

http://media.tumblr.com/aba1bad07d01eadd2848cd06bcc5a654/tumblr_inline_ms4kokuSa51qz4rgp.jpg

lol.

he was probably one of the few tolerable parts of the show last night even tho he sang "gorilla"

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/nfl-reportedly-picks-bruno-mars-perform-super-bowl-183507191--nfl.html

lol. does he have enough recognizable songs to fill up a set?

on second thought i guess if justin timberlake can perform at the vmas for like an hour straight anything is possible

I saw Bruno Mars live a few weeks ago and he was great. I can't hate.

yeah he's a good fit, he could do soul/mj covers and it would be fine

you only need a handful of recognizable tracks really

The Stones only did 3 songs, and most of the others do 4.

yeah, he has five #1s, he could a medley of shortened versions of all them and easily fill the 15 minute slot.

Plus bust out another cameo a la Sting, or one of the songs someone else had a hit with.

I hope his halftime show features actual gorillas

oh god i am really scared that "The Lazy Song" video is going to be recreated in the Super Bowl halftime show now

I may loathe his voice more than any living creature's, more than I loathe Alicia Keys' these days. Ubiquity's a bitch.

i'm more pro-Bruno than anti-Bruno now, Unorthodox Jukebox won me over big time

hope stays away from that song altogether xxp

hope *he

Super Bowl halftime show, huh?

Anecdotal evidence has it that people were largely impressed. He's no one I listen to on purpose, but when I saw him last year, it was basically exactly like the halftime show, but for 90 minutes or whatever. He and his band are really good on stage. Why were the Chili Peppers there at all?

so people too old or jaded to care who bruno mars is would find someone with name recognition

He's got the James Brown moves down.

And the Police style song

my mom had never heard of him and is now a fan

he drummed!

He was good on the drums. I still like nothing about his music but I came away very very impressed by him as a performer.

He had an unfathomable degree of perfection to his performance while still managing to seem loose.

i loved the drum solo opening

also his drummer is his brother iirc

Yeah that was all pretty slick. No surprise new tour dates got announced right after that, no better ad for it.

he's had years of practice tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS9jCtO0qyA

I thought the aging, shirtless chili peppers jumping out and doing give-it-away was a hilarious art joke though.

It was like having a beautiful cake and then having a comically ugly stripper jump out of it.

that was really the best song they could have done though

all of the 40/50 year old women I was watching with greatly appreciated shirtless RHCP

lol, the 35-year-old women I was with were I guess not at that stage of their lives yet, b/c they kept saying "they really need to wear shirts"

i was thinking about how anthony keidis' tattoos were some of the first tattoos i remember actually fixating on and comprehending as an adolescent and there they are 25 years later

xp: Orly? I missed the game, but here are a couple comments that turned up in my facebook feed via a couple of 35-ish friends:

Anthony Keidis. I so would. Then, now, and always.

I still have the hots for Anthony Kiedis...even in a pair of leggings I would probably wear.

the 50 year woman I was with was not impressed

50 year old

But yes Bruno is a great live performer (I'm just not wowed by his songs).

Didn't know he played drums. Dug that. Dug most of his set, actually. But ugh, fuck the fucking RHCPs and their awful, fundamentally unfunky drummer.

Actually, "unfunky" is too kind. He's negative-funky.

I was surprised that I did recognize a couple of BM's tunes from hearing out there in the ether, he's def a good performer/entertainer but an accurate James Brown impression isn't exactly artistic greatness, but he was like fine.

The switch over to RHCP was just weird. I am happy to report my social media feeds erupted into a bunch of Fishbone jokes and it continued when I went over to my local p-word bar afterward.