Bruno Mars "Unorthodox Jukebox"

He might have intended for these songs to be played on an Unorthodox Jukebox, but there are traces of artists who may even be prominent on traditional ones; not just the artists you expect either.  
            The opening tune has to be one of my favorites, and not just because of the “Young Girls,” but because it sounds like it features an energized harmonic assault. He may sound a little jaded, “But love don't exist/When you live like this.” He worries they may even kill him; another case file in 1000 Ways to Die? The first single sounds like somebody that I used to know, or even a band that used to patrol in a police car; the chorus may even be a message in a bottle. This third track features an expected MJ influence, but who wants to argue with a “Gorilla,”or musical icon?                                                                                                                       Whenever popular music employs the use of disco it just seems possess the value of a dime a dozen, but this one is more likely to be the “Treasure” of someone else.                                         The bass may have been left behind, but it refuses to drown its sorrows in “Moonshine;” even when the melodies are playing who’s crying now? As he professed at the start he suffers an affliction; which may have been the cause of “...a good strong woman like you to walk out my life/Now I never, never get to clean up the mess I made, ohh…/And it haunts me every time I close my eyes.” The piano ballad recalls the time, in the words of Mars, “When I Was Your Man.” What a great trade off! He loses a faithful, strong woman for a girl named “Natalie.” Not only stealing his heart, but also she ran away “…with all my money/And she did it for fun.” What does he expect? His friends warned him of her tendencies to favor gold. He lost his cash, and his lust (or love) for this girl, and now he not only abandons the attempt of trying to win her back, but also the tempo for a pop-reggae slow-jam in “Show Me.” The next song features a bangin’ sister who doesn’t practice what she preaches, if she went to a traditional church, but “She only go to the church where dollars fall.” Just like money can inhibit some from seeing the more important aspects of life, the added elements sometimes cause the feeling of congestion; like the refrain, which is an aggressive demand in the same vein as the chorus of teach me how to dougie, or the added keyboard which makes it stronger. Favorites: Young Girls, Locked Out of Heaven, Treasure, Moonshine, Money Make Her Smile, and If I Knew.