Bruno Mars and Diplo Hit Paris Strip Club for 'Unorthodox' Inspiration
By Matt Diehl
"It turned into this soulful, experimental, electronic, hard-to-explain
thing," Bruno Mars says of the freewheeling sessions that produced his second
solo album Unorthodox Jukebox, due out December 11th. "That's the reason
behind the album title – before I got signed to my current label, executives
would always tell me what I did was too all over the place – too unorthodox.
They couldn't imagine what radio station would play my stuff. I was thinking
about this in my head when I started this album – so I decided to go into
the studio and do whatever I wanted."
嗯就跟之前一直提的一样，前公司非常反对他所写的歌
表示无法想像有哪家电台会播这样的歌
那这也是专辑名称的来由(不正统的)
One thing Mars was sure he did want: to create something unexpected with the
follow up his smash 2010 debut, Doo-Wops & Hooligans, which unleashed gushers
of hits spanning "Just the Way You Are" to "Grenade," transforming him into a
star. To that end, he tossed out the pop rulebook – working with surprise
guests like jazz iconoclast Esperanza Spalding, collaborating with EDM
hitmaker Diplo to create an insane club banger unlike anything Mars has ever
recorded, and pushing a cadre of pop's most innovative producers (Jeff
Bhasker, sonic auteur behind Fun.'s "We Are Young" and hits for Kanye and
Beyoncé; Emile Haynie, crate-digging beatmaster for everyone from Kid Cudi
to Lana Del Rey; and Mark Ronson, stylish groovesmith whose retro-tastic
grooves defined Amy Winehouse's Back to Black) beyond their comfort zone.
所以他决定要跳脱pop的框架，展现和首专完全不一样的风格
为此也请来了各式各样的制作人
"I was traveling in Zanzibar on my honeymoon when I got this call: 'Do you
want to meet Bruno Mars?,'" Mark Ronson says. "I was only kind of familiar
with his music. But we met up in London a month later, and the first thing he
said was, 'I want to sound exactly the opposite of what a Mark Ronson
collaboration with Bruno Mars is supposed to sound like.' That won me over –
and then I found out what a phenomenal talent he is. This is the most
progressive music I've worked on yet. It's going to open up the arteries and
change the sound of music." As such, for "Locked Out of Heaven," Ronson
brought in the rhythm section of his frequent collaborators the Dap-Kings to
achieve a crisply syncopated, locked-in groove. "It's hard to create sounds
with live instrumentation that bump in the club, and Mark Ronson did it
here," Mars says. "Since Back to Black, I've always wanted to get into his
head and see how he does it."
这段是Mark Ronson的谈话
说Bruno当初找上门求合作的时候就表明：
成品要听起来完全不像两人"应该"会搞出来的东西XD
"So much of the record is played live, but still sounds like a hit record on
the radio," adds Jeff Bhasker. "This is Bruno showing new dimensions as a
songwriter and producer." Mars and co. pushed themselves even further on "Old
& Crazy," a bonus track on the album's special Target edition featuring a
face-to-face duet with Esperanza Spalding that Bhasker calls a "kooky,
true-jazz classic, like 'Pennies From Heaven.' It's sounds like a song you'd
hear in a club in 1920s Paris, even though we recorded it on a laptop; we
even use old microphones to give it that feel. It started with an Emile beat,
and then I added a Django Reinhardt sample that I screwed with in Ableton;
then Esperanza came in and nailed her bass and vocal parts live, like an old
pro."
虽然才说批特很少和女声合作，不过新专确实是有这样一首的
和Esperanza Spalding一起合唱的Old & Crazy(不过这首是收在TARGET版本里的)
这首也是复古到无以复加，会让你彷若置身在1920年代的巴黎夜店
为求质感还特地用了老式麦克风来录制
还加入了一点Django Reinhardt的采样桥段!
Meanwhile, Mars' frequent collaborator Diplo – the pair worked together on
"Liquor Store Blues" from Doo-Wops & Hooligans – took Mars even further away
from the safety net on "Money Make Her Smile," surrounding his tale of a
gold-digging super freak with rave sirens and hardcore punk rattle. "That's
the wild card," Mars says. "Diplo has all the sounds in his computer to make
the club go wild. We actually wrote that to be a strip-club anthem. After a
concert in Paris, we went to a strip club; the promoter got on the mic and
said, 'We have a special guest, Bruno Mars!' – and then they played 'Just
the Way You Are.' That's the worst song to hear in that environment, so I
resolved to write a good one." "In our generation, he's the most talented guy
I've worked with," says Diplo, who's crafted hits for everyone from M.I.A to
Beyoncé. "That record, he wanted to have something for the club, that has
some noise on it and an 'I don't give a fuck' feel. Still, he writes giant
pop songs. Bruno just does things with the songwriting I could never do –
I've never spent so much time working on a bridge or post-chorus, but that's
what you have to do."
老面孔合作伙伴Diplo(首专Liquor Store Blues的协力制作人)这次也参与了
Money Make Her Smile的制作
这首的诞生来源满有趣的，当初写来就是为了要成为脱衣舞吧的国歌这样(XD?!
据说是因为当初在巴黎开完演唱会之后，一群人顺道去了脱衣舞吧庆功
结果在介绍Bruno的时候背景音乐是Just the Way You Are…
批特说真是当下囧到深处，所以之后下定决心要好好写一首来雪耻
(感叹一下这种好像很正经却又好像歪到不行的创作理由吧!!!)
Elsewhere, Mars' new material proves more emotionally revealing than ever.
"When I Was Your Man," a stark breakup ballad (co-written with Miike Snow's
Andrew Wyatt) stands out amidst the edgy production, featuring only piano and
Mars' raw, intense vocals. "When we started the record, I was like, 'I'm
never singing another ballad again,' but that came from the gut – it's the
most honest, real thing I've ever sang," he says. "When there are no safe
bets, that's when I feel my blood move."
期待火星人招牌抒情歌的人也不要失望
When I Was Your Man是纯钢琴伴奏的正宗抒情歌
嗯虽然刚开始录制的时候批特想说以后打死都不要再录这样的拔辣情歌了
但结束之后非常自我感觉良好，觉得这应该是他自己唱过最真诚实在的歌了
然后他也表示当未来完全不可捉摸充满挑战性时，他才会觉得自己是确切活着的
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