The Romantic-Bruno Mars Album Review:

 

Bruno Mars is back with this fourth solo album (his fifth overall) with “The Romantic” his first in a decade in “24K”. He is one of the most accomplished and talented singer-songwriters musicians in the industry who is always collaborating with others like Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, and the last album he worked on under the title Silk Sonic with Anderson Paak. The album peaked atop the Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums US charts while also reaching number one in Canada. It is rare to listen to an album and not want to skip songs as it is a nice ride from the start to the end during the listening experience. It is the type of album that makes you smile or enjoy the experience because so many tracks are upbeat, funky, and groovy and make you want to dance or tap your feet to the beat. It does really show off his vocal strengths too.

            This upbeat R&B, pop-rock album is exactly what his fans have asked of him for years to come out with because it sounds so much like his older albums. “Cha, Cha, Cha” and the final track “Dance with me” are definitely dance songs. The former is an upbeat song and the latter is  definitely a slow song to dance to as he is talking about falling in love again. Tracks “Risk it all”, “I just might” and “G-d was showing off” all have that same upbeat-funky-groovy feel of R&B or Latin music. They have the feel of his older work and make you want to get up to dance; the first track does have a nice acoustic-quieter tone to start. The song “Why you want to fight”,  is when the album starts to kick it up a notch some cool guitar riffs and he sounds like a lounge or do-wop singer singing the blues in a way. While “On my soul” also has some good guitar riffs, is fast paced, with some guitar solos and some more ‘oofm’ to it. “Something serious” could be considered a song to dance to but he is definitely serious in the tone of the lyrics in the song. While the remaining song “Nothing left” is the one really serious song even though he is covering love in the other tracks for the most part. You can hear the emotional aspect in his vocals as there is more depth to the song too and it rocks out too.

            Mars has captured the romantic in him with these love songs of R&B, Hip-Hop, Pop-Rock and dance. He has also accomplished putting out music his fans can enjoy as it brings you back to his debut album or the previous ones. Because of his talent he will always be collaborating with other artists on either one track or even a whole album, which is fine. But the fans get kind of lucky that he is always releasing new music no matter if it’s as a solo artist or with others. Just know this man is not done making more music and let’s enjoy the ride that we all have been on since he started writing music for others and has been writing music for himself.