also lol are there no more obvious comparisons to be made here than chromeo or is that just an attempt to make this sound >= decent (not that chromeo were ever particularly beloved around here)
― dyl, Friday, 7 October 2016 07:35 (seven years ago) link
chromeo were beloved? (iirc)
― flopson, Friday, 7 October 2016 14:23 (seven years ago) link
i like several chromeo songs
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 7 October 2016 14:42 (seven years ago) link
more like dam-funk imo
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 7 October 2016 15:19 (seven years ago) link
chromeo is sick and i like this song because it sounds like vintage bad boy production
― J0rdan S., Friday, 7 October 2016 15:31 (seven years ago) link
This is relatively retrained for a Bruno Mars song. I like that he isn't laying it on as thick as he usually does
― Evan R, Friday, 7 October 2016 15:48 (seven years ago) link
it sounds even more like overly studied and awkwardly strained pastiche than usual, which is saying something because that's what pretty much all of his music from "locked out of heaven" onward is
the way it's such a small step away from "uptown funk" (which i actually liked! a lot!) is also a bit eyeroll-inducing too. speaking of eyes i'm convinced his obnoxiously omnipresent sunglasses must be concealing some bionic ones, + a brain with only one preprogrammed setting still in operation. semiannual maintenance required!
i suppose the lyrics (esp in 2nd verse) will come across as 'edgy' enough for grandparents to feel vaguely dangerous while enjoying, altho it's mostly just word salad of contemporary slang phrases. but i guess that is all pop music right
what i'm trying to say is i feel like i will only hate it more the more i am forced to hear it in the wild
― dyl, Friday, 7 October 2016 16:15 (seven years ago) link
yeah otm
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 7 October 2016 16:20 (seven years ago) link
I love it
― bunny slopes, Friday, 7 October 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
it's pretty great but the hooks feelthin, they're just sliding off my mind at the moment
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 October 2016 22:06 (seven years ago) link
I even love that "#blessed" line at this point.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 10 October 2016 00:20 (seven years ago) link
The instrumental segment from 1:01 to 1:17 (repeated later) is either a sample or really close copy of something else. What is it? Help!
― matt2, Monday, 10 October 2016 13:55 (seven years ago) link
I don't know, but I've been having that exact same thought as well.
― MarkoP, Monday, 10 October 2016 15:53 (seven years ago) link
this whole song sounds so much like Candy Girl
― Spottie, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 20:58 (seven years ago) link
Chromeo are great. this is pretty good. the only bit that sounds Bad Boy to me are the synths that sounds like the can't nobody hold me down synths, otherwise this sounds way more west coast
― Spottie, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link
Chromeo make good songs and are cool guys and I'll fight you if you disagree.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 21:09 (seven years ago) link
This Bruno Mars song sounds ok-ish. Not enough hooks or energy to be a big hit.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 21:10 (seven years ago) link
More than a Chromeo song it sounds like a diminishing return of Uptown Funk and that song was on the charts for so long I feel like people wont be too impressed by its less talented cousin.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 21:12 (seven years ago) link
Maybe if it was released during the uptown funk craze... then again looking at the current top 10 in the billboard charts maybe it desrves a chance.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 21:15 (seven years ago) link
I probably listen to more Chromeo with my family than anything else.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 21:29 (seven years ago) link
CHUNKY http://www.rap-up.com/2016/10/15/bruno-mars-performs-24k-magic-chunky-on-snl/
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 16 October 2016 07:02 (seven years ago) link
such a good performer
― Spottie, Sunday, 16 October 2016 07:39 (seven years ago) link
So even his backup singers on that are kind of stealing P-thugg's look. I don't know how to feel about this... it feels like too little too late for me. On one hand it's not terrible but on the other I think it's unfair that Chromeo (and dozens of other artists) has been doing this schtick for more than 10 years with way better songs and this gets a chance at stardom because Bruno Mars. Even Capital Cities have done more interesting things with this sort of nu-disco funk thing.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 16 October 2016 07:44 (seven years ago) link
"with way better songs"
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Sunday, 16 October 2016 21:35 (seven years ago) link
didn't Chromeo have a proper pop radio breakthrough a couple years ago?
― flopson, Sunday, 16 October 2016 21:41 (seven years ago) link
pumped to hear 24k Magic everywhere all the time forever, love the part where he channels Mystikal
― flopson, Sunday, 16 October 2016 21:51 (seven years ago) link
This new song isn't bad, in that it is at least as good as that Timberlake song from the summer. He's clearly riding the "Uptown Funk" wave, in which case I suppose I'm mildly disappointed that he might not be interested in pursuing his earlier apparent goal of becoming his era's Billy Joel anymore.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Sunday, 16 October 2016 22:13 (seven years ago) link
He didn't sound half-bad on SNL, which makes him the best live performer ever on that show
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Sunday, 16 October 2016 22:19 (seven years ago) link
C H U N K Y is my shit
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 16 October 2016 22:32 (seven years ago) link
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40)
Better song:https://youtu.be/630cDjrdjmU
Better song:https://youtu.be/fGksDvKZ9ek
Better song:https://youtu.be/7BurNCK5Pc8
Better song:https://youtu.be/6XCcWlgVqHA
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 16 October 2016 22:45 (seven years ago) link
ez
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid
versus
the way it's such a small step away from "uptown funk" (which i actually liked! a lot!) is also a bit eyeroll-inducing too.-Dyl
He has skills & I used to like him more; but on SNL I thought he came across overly studied and awkwardly strained. Forced retro not saved by singing about hashtags
― curmudgeon, Monday, 17 October 2016 16:08 (seven years ago) link
lol Moka.... . . . Imagine how fans of the actual 80s r&b felt
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 17 October 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
Imagine earnestly accusing Bruno mars of appropriating chromeo
Even Capital Cities have done more interesting things with this sort of nu-disco funk thing.
You went too far.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 17 October 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
wow the challops are out in full force today
― maura, Monday, 17 October 2016 19:55 (seven years ago) link
i tried to look up bruno mars "chunky" and this was the first result lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUrS91wt5Qc
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 17 October 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, October 17, 2016 3:32 PM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
looooool this thread
― Best Beloved Trump-Pence (some dude), Saturday, 22 October 2016 15:32 (seven years ago) link
What is that pingy bell-like sound heard throughout the song (usually at the beginning of the verses)? It's a sound very prevalent in a lot of 90's r&b and g-funk type stuff, but I don't know if it was something also heard in the 70s and 80s funk that preceded it. Can someone clear this up for me?
― MarkoP, Saturday, 22 October 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
"versace on the floor" is INCREDIBLE
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 3 November 2016 17:29 (seven years ago) link
fake mj/stevie rhodes ballad -> rené and angela/late '80s isleys shuffly slow jam
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 3 November 2016 17:33 (seven years ago) link
wow yeah, that chorus is really something
― bunny slopes, Thursday, 3 November 2016 18:10 (seven years ago) link
I can't wait for this album, for real.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 4 November 2016 04:27 (seven years ago) link
Yep really enjoying everything I've heard so far from this record
― art baengels (monotony), Friday, 4 November 2016 05:23 (seven years ago) link
this album is delightful
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 16:51 (seven years ago) link
"versace on the floor" sounds like if peabo bryson made sex jams for ALADDIN and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST instead of "love themes"
― josh, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 17:03 (seven years ago) link
Take off your clothes!
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 17:48 (seven years ago) link
God bless Bruno Mars for "Finesse".
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, 17 November 2016 01:06 (seven years ago) link
"versace on the floor" would be better if the beginning were in free tempo instead of locked into a click track
― qop (crüt), Thursday, 17 November 2016 02:24 (seven years ago) link
record is basically bobby brown + the time.
its not bad.
― jamiesummerz, Friday, 18 November 2016 10:54 (seven years ago) link
― qop (crüt), Wednesday, November 16, 2016 9:24 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i didn't even notice what about the beginning was bugging me, but you are right, the lyrics are really straightforward, the lack of a free tempo makes them feel less heartfelt somehow. great song though.
― kruezer2, Friday, 18 November 2016 16:02 (seven years ago) link
I could see him stretching out the intro when it's done live.
― MarkoP, Friday, 18 November 2016 16:05 (seven years ago) link
I'm a sucker for New Jack Swing pastiche, and this video is totally lovable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsoLEjrDogU
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 11 January 2018 15:01 (six years ago) link
yeah i like it too
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 11 January 2018 15:13 (six years ago) link
Yeah, this video is perfect. They nailed it.
I'm still shocked that Versace On The Floor was such a flop. I guess no-one was really there for a David Guetta remix.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 11 January 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link
love that vid/song
― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Thursday, 11 January 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
Cardi B as a fly girl is on point
― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Thursday, 11 January 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
otm
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 11 January 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link
i like it enough that i probably won't change the station when it inevitably comes on but something about it leaves me cold. like a number of his other pastiches it's almost too on the nose.
it got me wondering, what was the last bruno mars single i liked that wasn't obvious pastiche? (i know that's, like, the majority of his output from "locked out of heaven" onward.) maybe "it will rain"? and it took me a while to warm up to that.
― dyl, Friday, 12 January 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
and i really liked "versace on the floor"! can't say i'm surprised it wasn't big but i would have welcomed it.
― dyl, Friday, 12 January 2018 01:32 (six years ago) link
still not tired of uptown funk when it comes on. that song is like 20 pastiches.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 January 2018 03:59 (six years ago) link
“that’s what i like” is not an obvious pastiche
― J0rdan S., Friday, 12 January 2018 08:05 (six years ago) link
Ahah « Finesse » could almost be one of the 90s New Jack parodies J Timberlake made like 10y ago...Bruno Mars’ « Dick in a tiny box », girls.
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 12 January 2018 11:40 (six years ago) link
oh right i forgot about "that's what i like" (even tho i still hear it all the time), that is a good one! + hits the spot as far as being referential but not eye-rollingly nostalgic
― dyl, Friday, 12 January 2018 23:14 (six years ago) link
what exactly is the source of today's bruno mars discourse
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 9 March 2018 16:58 (six years ago) link
i think it's this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9NTvCyprsA
― J0rdan S., Friday, 9 March 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
thanks, all I could find was reactions
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 9 March 2018 17:36 (six years ago) link