At just nine songs long, “24K Magic” is a short album - 33 minutes long - but in that half hour, Mars touches on various styles of music and doesn’t fall back on his ballads like previous albums.īruno Mars and his team of musicians find a good balance of dance and R&B songs while never letting the album become a bore. With what is easily his best album, Mars and his production team, Shampoo Press & Curl, deliver music that mixes funk, ‘80s R&B and new jack swing. If this album provides you with that fantasy, then it's done it's job.Bruno Mars is back with his third studio album, “ 24K Magic.” Two years after teaming up with Mark Ronson on “Uptown Funk,” it appears that Mars took some notes from Ronson and returned with an album reminiscent of the “Uptown Funk” sound. Sometimes we all just need a night where we feel like we're the coolest person in the world. Well composed musical content that doesn't exactly have to send a meaningful message, but instead allows you to forget about the daily struggles we as humans face. That said, it's representative of what pop music can and should be. It's not an album we'll be writing about for years and it's certainly not an album that is going to innovate pop music as we know it. Overall, the album is nothing that will blow your socks off. While some tracks do tend to sound a bit similar, each has something distinct that separates them from one another. This personally wouldn't be such an issue if the lyrical content had more to offer. By the time you settle in to the groove of the album, it's coming to an end. A nine song track list clocking in at a little over 33 minutes, you sometimes feel as if you're listening to an unfinished product. Ultimately, it's downfall is the lack of content it contains. 24K Magic represents quintessential pop music in 2016 and provides a fresh and timeless alternative to most of the content on Top 40 today. Tracks like "Chunky" and "Finesse" ooze funky synths while "Versace On The Floor" and "Too Good To Say Goodbye" help highlight the immense vocal talent that Mars possesses.
What it lacks in lyrical content though, it makes up for with production. None of the lyrical content here will have you doing anything more than forming a posse with your co-workers and possibly investing in a pinky ring. While I've never cared much for the billionaire mogul with all the women gimmick that Bruno has exuded in recent years, it not something that turns me off from the music.
Pop music today often sounds commercialized and repetitive which makes this album all the more special. Soulful and smooth with gigantic doses of swagger injected into the lining of almost every track, Bruno completely delivered. Our third full-length offering in the Bruno Mars catalog, this could have been a pop music masterpiece or a cheesy capitalization off the wildly successful "Uptown Funk". In this particular case, the singles were a clear representation of how the album was going to sound. There have been countless times where an artist releases promotional singles and I really enjoy them, but when the body of work itself arrives I find myself wanting more. There have been One of the things that upsets me about music is the promotional singles not representing what the entire album consists of. One of the things that upsets me about music is the promotional singles not representing what the entire album consists of.
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