183-585: " Young Girls " is a song by American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars . It was composed by Mars, Philip Lawrence and Ari Levine, a songwriting and record production trio known as the Smeezingtons , as well as Jeff Bhasker , and Emile Haynie , with additional songwriter credits by Mac Davis , for Mars's second studio album Unorthodox Jukebox (2012). It is a midtempo , doo-wop -influenced pop ballad that garnered comparisons to Mars's " It Will Rain " and Lana Del Rey 's music. Its instrumentation includes drums, synths, piano and elements of electro music . The song
366-398: A Stroh violin which uses a conical horn connected to a diaphragm that in turn is connected to the violin bridge. The horn was no longer needed once electrical recording was developed. The long-playing 33 1 ⁄ 3 rpm microgroove LP record , was developed at Columbia Records and introduced in 1948. The short-playing but convenient 7-inch (18 cm) 45 rpm microgroove vinyl single
549-512: A microphone was used to convert the sound into an electrical signal that was amplified and used to actuate the recording stylus. This innovation eliminated the "horn sound" resonances characteristic of the acoustical process, produced clearer and more full-bodied recordings by greatly extending the useful range of audio frequencies, and allowed previously unrecordable distant and feeble sounds to be captured. During this time, several radio-related developments in electronics converged to revolutionize
732-685: A sound track . The projector used a steady light and a photodetector to convert these variations back into an electrical signal, which was amplified and sent to loudspeakers behind the screen. Optical sound became the standard motion picture audio system throughout the world and remains so for theatrical release prints despite attempts in the 1950s to substitute magnetic soundtracks. Currently, all release prints on 35 mm movie film include an analog optical soundtrack, usually stereo with Dolby SR noise reduction. In addition, an optically recorded digital soundtrack in Dolby Digital or Sony SDDS form
915-420: A "blessing" nowadays. Jon Caramanica of The New York Times found 24K Magic to show the singer's vocal ability from tenderness to "the more forceful side of his voice". Mars has explained his writing process: "I don't sit down and think, 'I'm going to write a song'", since "You can't force creativeness" as inspiration comes out of the blue in different places. Ideas occur suddenly to him; and occasionally, he
1098-496: A "nimble, soulful vocalist" on Unorthodox Jukebox . Jim Farber of the New York Daily News likened the voice "the purity, cream and range of mid-period Michael Jackson" in a review of a concert promoting Unorthodox Jukebox . On 24K Magic , Consequence of Sound ' s Karen Gwen affirmed that Mars showed his "pips" and pushed his vocals to the limit. She described his voice as a "clear, unapologetic tenor" being
1281-469: A Brahms Serenade, and the last movement of Bruckner's 8th Symphony with Von Karajan. Other early German stereophonic tapes are believed to have been destroyed in bombings. Not until Ampex introduced the first commercial two-track tape recorders in the late 1940s did stereo tape recording become commercially feasible. Despite the availability of multitrack tape, stereo did not become the standard system for commercial music recording for some years, and remained
1464-578: A Motown vibe, Billionaire was a reggae acoustic guitar-driven song, though one of my favorites is the CeeLo Green song. I don't think anyone else could've sung that song. And there's Just the Way You Are . If you know my story, you know I love all different genres of music." Mars feels that growing up in Hawaii influenced his style, giving the songs a reggae sound. He explains: "In Hawaii some of
1647-668: A Smile ". The song became his first number one on the Billboard Global 200 , and reached number two in the US. It reached the top spot of several countries, including the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland, and received nominations for Song of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 2025 Grammy Awards . A month later, Mars and New Zealand–South Korean singer Rosé released their collaboration single " Apt. ",
1830-407: A coating of soot as the paper was passed under it. An 1860 phonautogram of " Au Clair de la Lune ", a French folk song, was played back as sound for the first time in 2008 by scanning it and using software to convert the undulating line, which graphically encoded the sound, into a corresponding digital audio file. Thomas Edison's work on two other innovations, the telegraph and the telephone, led to
2013-485: A condenser type developed there in 1916 and greatly improved in 1922, and the best amplifiers and test equipment. They had already patented an electromechanical recorder in 1918, and in the early 1920s, they decided to intensively apply their hardware and expertise to developing two state-of-the-art systems for electronically recording and reproducing sound: one that employed conventional discs and another that recorded optically on motion picture film. Their engineers pioneered
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#17327831948402196-404: A couple of songs on the guitar Bay-Schuck wanted to sign him immediately. However, it took roughly three years for Atlantic Records to finally sign Mars, because they felt it was too early and that he still needed to develop as an artist. In 2008, on the verge of giving up, they received a call from Brandon Creed, who was looking for songs for a reunited Menudo . He liked their song "Lost", which
2379-478: A date for the release, stating: "Until it's done ... It's gotta be just as good if not better". At the 2016 Grammy Awards "Uptown Funk" won Ronson and Mars a Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Record of the Year. On February 7, 2016, British band Coldplay headlined the Super Bowl 50 halftime show with Mars and American singer Beyoncé as guest acts, marking their second appearance on
2562-402: A few crude telephone-based recording devices with no means of amplification, such as the telegraphone , it remained so until the 1920s. Between the invention of the phonograph in 1877 and the first commercial digital recordings in the early 1970s, arguably the most important milestone in the history of sound recording was the introduction of what was then called electrical recording , in which
2745-509: A high level of complexity and sophistication. The combined impact with innovations such as the endless loop broadcast cartridge led to significant changes in the pacing and production style of radio program content and advertising. In 1881, it was noted during experiments in transmitting sound from the Paris Opera that it was possible to follow the movement of singers on the stage if earpieces connected to different microphones were held to
2928-483: A hit pop song is, because you can have talent and music ability, but understanding what makes a hit pop song is a whole other discipline." Lindsey confessed he "held Mars back for five years while they learned an extensive catalog of hit music." In a different interview, Brown corroborated the former story. During this time, Mars played cover songs around Los Angeles in a band called Sex Panther, with Bhasker and Eric Hernandez (the former's brother), who eventually became
3111-585: A major consumer audio format and advances in electronic and mechanical miniaturization led to the development of the Sony Walkman , a pocket-sized cassette player introduced in 1979. The Walkman was the first personal music player and it gave a major boost to sales of prerecorded cassettes. A key advance in audio fidelity came with the Dolby A noise reduction system, invented by Ray Dolby and introduced into professional recording studios in 1966. It suppressed
3294-508: A major impact on his musical evolution; he reflected: I'm a big fan of 1950s Elvis when he would go on stage and scare people because he was a force and girls would go nuts! You can say the same thing for Prince or The Police . It's just guys who know that people are here to see a show, so I watch those guys and I love studying them because I'm a fan. He also impersonated Michael Jackson, another major inspiration. The hip-hop productions by The Neptunes and Timbaland , that were played on
3477-628: A major influence and account for his reggae roots. Hip-hop acts like Jay-Z , The Roots , and Cody Chesnutt were among some of his favorites, and have influenced his compositions. Each of these musical genres has influenced the singer's musical style; he observed: "It's not easy to [create] songs with that mixture of rock and soul and hip-hop, and there's only a handful of them." Mars also admires classical music. Other artists Mars has said inspired his work include Janet Jackson , Jimi Hendrix , Amy Winehouse , Sly Stone , Carlos Santana , George Clinton , and Usher . Mars has also stated that he
3660-743: A master roll which had been created on a special piano, which punched holes in the master as a live performer played the song. Thus, the roll represented a recording of the actual performance of an individual, not just the more common method of punching the master roll through transcription of the sheet music. This technology to record a live performance onto a piano roll was not developed until 1904. Piano rolls were in continuous mass production from 1896 to 2008. A 1908 U.S. Supreme Court copyright case noted that, in 1902 alone, there were between 70,000 and 75,000 player pianos manufactured, and between 1,000,000 and 1,500,000 piano rolls produced. The first device that could record actual sounds as they passed through
3843-554: A much larger proportion of people to hear famous orchestras, operas, singers and bands, because even if a person could not afford to hear the live concert, they may be able to hear the recording. The availability of sound recording thus helped to spread musical styles to new regions, countries and continents. The cultural influence went in a number of directions. Sound recordings enabled Western music lovers to hear actual recordings of Asian, Middle Eastern and African groups and performers, increasing awareness of non-Western musical styles. At
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#17327831948404026-578: A musical career. Following a brief contract with Motown Records , he established his name in the music industry as a songwriter and co-founder of the production team the Smeezingtons . He rose to fame as a recording artist following his guest performances on the singles " Nothin' on You " (2009) by B.o.B and " Billionaire " (2010) by Travie McCoy , which reached number one and four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 , respectively. Mars pop-influenced debut album, Doo-Wops & Hooligans (2010), amassed
4209-475: A production team consisting of Mars, Lawrence, and Brown, which replaced the Smeezingtons. In May 2016, the singer split with his manager and started his own management company, Gorilla Management, operated by Aaron Elharar. At the 2017 Grammy Awards , his work (as part of the Smeezingtons) on Adele's " All I Ask ", a track from her third studio album, 25 (2015), brought him a Grammy Award for Album of
4392-402: A result, each performance of a song or piece would be slightly different. With the development of analog sound recording, though, a performance could be permanently fixed, in all of its elements: pitch, rhythm, timbre, ornaments and expression. This meant that many more elements of a performance would be captured and disseminated to other listeners. The development of sound recording also enabled
4575-509: A solo artist in 2012. The album has since sold over six million copies worldwide. " Locked out of Heaven " was released in October 2012, and preceded the release of Unorthodox Jukebox , an album produced mainly by the Smeezingtons. The song topped the U.S. and Canada charts, peaking at number two on the UK. It also charted within the top ten in various countries. Other singles released from
4758-510: A specialist market during the 1950s. EMI (UK) was the first company to release commercial stereophonic tapes. They issued their first Stereosonic tape in 1954. Others quickly followed, under the His Master's Voice (HMV) and Columbia labels. 161 Stereosonic tapes were released, mostly classical music or lyric recordings. RCA imported these tapes into the USA. Although some HMV tapes released in
4941-464: A stereo soundtrack was Walt Disney's Fantasia , released in 1940. The 1941 release of Fantasia used the Fantasound sound system. This system used a separate film for the sound, synchronized with the film carrying the picture. The sound film had four double-width optical soundtracks, three for left, center, and right audio—and a fourth as a "control" track with three recorded tones that controlled
5124-474: A studio version with Chris Martins of Spin labeling it an "epic studio-recorded glory". On a more thorough review, Idolator 's Carl Williott found the production "dynamic" comparing it to compositions by Lana Del Rey and while "the pre-chorus could be from a 60's girl group", the "percussion and electro flitting in the background" is what makes pop music nowadays. He concluded, that it's "a flipside" to Mars's lead single . HitFix 's critic Melinda Newman gave
5307-470: A three-octave tenor vocal range. Jon Caramanica of The New York Times commented that he is one of the most "versatile and accessible singers in pop, with a light, soul-influenced voice that's an easy fit in a range of styles, a universal donor", while Tim Sendra from AllMusic described the singer's vocals on Doo-Wops & Hooligans as "the kind of smooth instrument that slips into your ear like honey." Jody Rosen from Rolling Stone called Mars
5490-469: A variety of materials including mild steel, thorn, and even sapphire. Discs had a distinctly limited playing life that varied depending on how they were manufactured. Earlier, purely acoustic methods of recording had limited sensitivity and frequency range. Mid-frequency range notes could be recorded, but very low and very high frequencies could not. Instruments such as the violin were difficult to transfer to disc. One technique to deal with this involved using
5673-429: A variety of techniques from remixing to pseudostereo . Magnetic tape transformed the recording industry. By the early 1950s, most commercial recordings were mastered on tape instead of recorded directly to disc. Tape facilitated a degree of manipulation in the recording process that was impractical with mixes and multiple generations of directly recorded discs. An early example is Les Paul 's 1951 recording of How High
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5856-476: A wide frequency range and high audio quality are not. The development of analog sound recording in the nineteenth century and its widespread use throughout the twentieth century had a huge impact on the development of music. Before analog sound recording was invented, most music was as a live performance. Throughout the medieval , Renaissance , Baroque , Classical , and through much of the Romantic music era ,
6039-550: A worldwide standard for higher-quality recording on vinyl records. The Ernest Ansermet recording of Igor Stravinsky 's Petrushka was key in the development of full frequency range records and alerting the listening public to high fidelity in 1946. Until the mid-1960s, record companies mixed and released most popular music in monophonic sound. From mid-1960s until the early 1970s, major recordings were commonly released in both mono and stereo. Recordings originally released only in mono have been rerendered and released in stereo using
6222-474: Is amplified and connected to a loudspeaker to produce sound. Long before sound was first recorded, music was recorded—first by written music notation , then also by mechanical devices (e.g., wind-up music boxes , in which a mechanism turns a spindle, which plucks metal tines, thus reproducing a melody ). Automatic music reproduction traces back as far as the 9th century, when the Banū Mūsā brothers invented
6405-443: Is a fan of Alicia Keys , Jessie J , Jack White , The Saturdays , and Kings of Leon . Mars's music has been noted for displaying a wide variety of styles, musical genres, and influences, including pop, R&B, funk , soul , reggae , and rock. His debut album, Doo-Wops & Hooligans , is predominantly a pop, reggae pop and R&B record. It is influenced by most of the genres mentioned above. Many of his songs on
6588-423: Is able to materialize them into lyrics. He has said that he typically writes songs by playing the guitar or piano first. Mars plays drums, guitar, keyboard, bass, piano, ukulele, and congas. He usually plays the instrumentation or part of it, on his albums and on the songs he composes for other artists. Mars claims that his work with other artists has influenced his musical style: " Nothin' on You had
6771-411: Is achieved by a microphone diaphragm that senses changes in atmospheric pressure caused by acoustic sound waves and records them as a mechanical representation of the sound waves on a medium such as a phonograph record (in which a stylus cuts grooves on a record). In magnetic tape recording, the sound waves vibrate the microphone diaphragm and are converted into a varying electric current , which
6954-517: Is an American singer-songwriter. He is known for his stage performances, retro showmanship, and for singing in a wide range of musical styles, including pop , R&B , funk , soul , reggae , disco , and rock . Mars is accompanied by his band, the Hooligans , whose members are also backup singers and dancers. In 2021, Mars and fellow singer Anderson .Paak formed the musical superduo Silk Sonic . Mars moved to Los Angeles in 2003 to pursue
7137-417: Is likely to be present. An optically recorded timecode is also commonly included to synchronize CDROMs that contain a DTS soundtrack. This period also saw several other historic developments including the introduction of the first practical magnetic sound recording system, the magnetic wire recorder , which was based on the work of Danish inventor Valdemar Poulsen . Magnetic wire recorders were effective, but
7320-492: Is one of six children and came from a musical family which exposed him to a diverse mix of music genres, including first and foremost rock and roll , and later reggae , hip hop , and rhythm and blues . His mother was both a singer and a dancer, and his father performed Little Richard 's music, which inspired him as a young child. His uncle was an Elvis Presley impersonator , and also encouraged three-year-old Mars to perform songs on stage by Presley and Michael Jackson . At
7503-542: Is originally from Brooklyn , New York. Mars has stated that his Jewish ancestors were from Hungary and Ukraine . His mother emigrated from the Philippines to Hawaii, and was of Filipino and some Spanish ancestry. His parents met while performing in a show in which his mother was a hula dancer and his father played percussion. At the age of two, he was nicknamed "Bruno" by his father because of his resemblance to professional wrestler Bruno Sammartino . Mars
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7686-422: Is then converted to a varying magnetic field by an electromagnet , which makes a representation of the sound as magnetized areas on a plastic tape with a magnetic coating on it. Analog sound reproduction is the reverse process, with a larger loudspeaker diaphragm causing changes to atmospheric pressure to form acoustic sound waves. Digital recording and reproduction converts the analog sound signal picked up by
7869-575: The Billboard Hot 100 number-one single " Leave the Door Open " which received four Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year. His 2024 duets " Die with a Smile " with Lady Gaga and " Apt. " with Rosé both peaked at number one on the Billboard Global 200 . Mars has sold over 130 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time . Eight of his songs have reached number one on
8052-661: The Time 100 and Forbes Celebrity 100 . Mars became the first artist to receive six diamond-certified songs in the United States and has been regarded as a pop icon due to his influential career. Peter Gene Hernandez was born on October 8, 1985, in Honolulu , Hawaii, to Peter Hernandez and Bernadette San Pedro Bayot growing up in the Waikiki neighborhood of Honolulu. His father has Puerto Rican and Jewish heritage, and
8235-551: The BET Awards 2021 , International Group of the Year at the 2022 Brit Awards and Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration, Traditional at the 53rd NAACP Image Awards . They received three awards at the 2021 Soul Train Music Awards , including Song of the Year for "Leave the Door Open". At the 2022 Grammy Awards , Silk Sonic won Record of the Year, Song of The Year, Best R&B Performance and Best R&B Song for
8418-721: The Billboard 200 and entered at the top-five in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. " Leave the Door Open ", " Skate , " Smokin out the Window ", a cover version of Con Funk Shun 's " Love's Train " and " After Last Night " featuring Thundercat and Collins were released as singles. "Leave the Door Open" peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and in New Zealand. "Smokin out the Window" peaked at number five on
8601-514: The Billboard Hot 100 and his concert tours are some of the highest-grossing in history. He has received 15 Grammy Awards (including three Record of the Year wins), four Brit Awards , eleven American Music Awards , 13 Soul Train Awards and holds three Guinness World Records , among other accolades . He featured on Music Week ' s best songwriters (2011) and Billboard ' s Greatest of All Time Artists (2019) lists and rankings such as
8784-513: The Billboard Hot 100 and number four in New Zealand. All the singles, but "Skate", topped the Billboard Adult R&;B Songs , which led the album to become the second with four number-one singles on the aforementioned chart, tying with Toni Braxton 's self-titled studio album (1993). In early 2022, Silk Sonic started their debut concert residency titled An Evening with Silk Sonic at Park MGM . The duo won Best Group at
8967-532: The Billboard Hot 100, New Zealand, the UK, as well as multiple other charts, and " The Lazy Song ", which peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached the top spot in the UK and Denmark. Other singles include " Talking to the Moon ", exclusively released in Brazil and topped Billboard Brasil 's Hot Pop Songs and Hot 100 Airplay . " Marry You ", only released to international markets, entering
9150-526: The Billboard Hot 100. Mars's third album, the R&;B-focused 24K Magic (2016), received seven Grammy Awards, winning the major categories of Album of the Year , Record of the Year, and Song of the Year . The album produced the U.S. number one single " That's What I Like " and the successful singles " 24K Magic " and a remix of " Finesse " featuring Cardi B . Silk Sonic 's soul and 1970s R&B-inspired album, An Evening with Silk Sonic (2021), contained
9333-568: The Chladni patterns produced by sound in stone representations, although this theory has not been conclusively proved. In the 14th century, a mechanical bell-ringer controlled by a rotating cylinder was introduced in Flanders . Similar designs appeared in barrel organs (15th century), musical clocks (1598), barrel pianos (1805), and music boxes ( c. 1800 ). A music box is an automatic musical instrument that produces sounds by
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#17327831948409516-613: The MelOn Music Awards for the category "Best Pop". "Young Girls" was able to chart in the United States on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 , which acts as an extension of the Billboard Hot 100 , at number 102 and entered at number 64 on the Canadian Hot 100 on November 24, 2012, two weeks after the song was released as a promotional single. Following the release of Unorthodox Jukebox , on December 12, 2012,
9699-567: The Moonshine Jungle Tour , from June 2013 to October 2014. He also announced a concert residency titled Bruno Mars at The Chelsea, Las Vegas , Paradise, Nevada . The tour grossed $ 156.4 million. On September 8, 2013, Mars was disclosed as the headline performer at the Super Bowl XLVIII halftime show , which took place on February 2, 2014, with American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers as special guests. It
9882-707: The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show , aired on CBS . Sam Lansky of Idolator said the performance during the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show was "impressive", despite the singer not being "runway-friendly as RiRi ". On December 7, 2012, Mars and his band sung the record on, the German show, "Sat 1 Frühstücksfernsehen" and on December 31, 2012, at the New Year Alan Carr's Specstacular . It was performed occasionally on The Moonshine Jungle Tour (2013–2014). The song
10065-536: The compact disc (CD) in 1982 brought significant improvements in the quality and durability of recordings. The CD initiated another massive wave of change in the consumer music industry, with vinyl records effectively relegated to a small niche market by the mid-1990s. The record industry fiercely resisted the introduction of digital systems, fearing wholesale piracy on a medium able to produce perfect copies of original released recordings. The most recent and revolutionary developments have been in digital recording, with
10248-452: The graphic equalizer , which could be connected together to create a complete home sound system. These developments were rapidly taken up by major Japanese electronics companies, which soon flooded the world market with relatively affordable, high-quality transistorized audio components. By the 1980s, corporations like Sony had become world leaders in the music recording and playback industry. The advent of digital sound recording and later
10431-424: The verse – pre-chorus – chorus pattern. It begins with the singer "dumbly" trying to get noticed by "these bright-eyed honeys", since he can't help to fall for their "dubious charms", despite "recognizing [the] sin while indulging in it". The song's lyrics are in the same vein as Gary Puckett & The Union Gap 's " Young Girl " and The Knack 's " My Sharona " as pointed out by HitFix 's Melinda Newman. She added,
10614-467: The "heavy drums", reminding " Phil Spector –esque tom-toms", and they "counterpoint to the ascendant melody" with "bits of electro " fading in the background. The chorus would fit in a "60's girl group" due to the join forces of Mars's "retro crooner sensibilities with modern sonic flourishes". Carl Williot of Idolator noted that the "delicate but dynamic production" on "Young Girls" is reminiscent of Lana Del Rey . The lyrics to "Young Girls" follow
10797-597: The "slums of Hawaii", on the back of a car, on rooftops, and in an abandoned bird zoo, Paradise Park, where his father worked before it closed. Mars transferred to another school and was bullied initially, but he became popular in the last days of school. The time Mars spent impersonating Presley had a major impact on his musical evolution and performing techniques. He later began playing guitar after being inspired by American rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix . In 2010, he also acknowledged his Hawaiian roots and musical family as an influence, explaining: "Growing up in Hawaii made me
10980-406: The 1920s, Phonofilm and other early motion picture sound systems employed optical recording technology, in which the audio signal was graphically recorded on photographic film. The amplitude variations comprising the signal were used to modulate a light source which was imaged onto the moving film through a narrow slit, allowing the signal to be photographed as variations in the density or width of
11163-549: The 1980s, but in the 1960s the pre-recorded 8-track tape was launched as a consumer audio format by the Lear Jet aircraft company. Aimed particularly at the automotive market, they were the first practical, affordable car hi-fi systems, and could produce sound quality superior to that of the compact cassette. The smaller size and greater durability – augmented by the ability to create home-recorded music mixtapes since 8-track recorders were rare – saw
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#173278319484011346-494: The Apollo . He received seven awards at the 2017 American Music Awards , including Artist of the Year , two for "That's What I Like" and other two for 24K Magic . He also won Album/Mixtape of the Year at the 2017 Soul Train Music Awards , in addition to four other awards. At the 2018 Grammy Awards , Mars won in the six categories for which he was nominated: Album of the Year and Best R&B Album for 24K Magic , Record of
11529-562: The Hawaiian tabloid shopper MidWeek as "Little Elvis" and performed in the halftime show of the 1990 Aloha Bowl . In 1992, he appeared in a cameo role in the film Honeymoon in Vegas and was interviewed by Pauly Shore on MTV. When Mars was six years old, he was featured on The Arsenio Hall Show and throughout grade school, he performed with his family's band, two shows a night, covering Frankie Lymon and Little Anthony . When he
11712-432: The Moon , on which Paul played eight overdubbed guitar tracks. In the 1960s Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys , Frank Zappa , and The Beatles (with producer George Martin ) were among the first popular artists to explore the possibilities of multitrack recording techniques and effects on their landmark albums Pet Sounds , Freak Out! , and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band . The next important innovation
11895-573: The Smeezingtons , along with Bhasker and Haynie. The song was recorded by Levine at Levcon Studios in Los Angeles and mixed by Manny Marroquin at Larrabee Sound Studios in North Hollywood, California . Charles Moniz served as the track's additional engineer, Brent Kolatalo and Ken Lewis engineered the big drums. It was mastered by David Kutch at The Mastering Place. "Young Girls" was first performed on Saturday Night Live and
12078-426: The Smeezingtons. The song topped the charts in various countries, including Australia, Canada and the U.S. The album, released on October 5, 2010, debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 and number one in the UK. It also charted at number one in the Netherlands and Canada. Doo-Wops & Hooligans has since sold 15.5 million copies worldwide. It spawned two other singles, " Grenade ", which topped
12261-662: The Stereotypes . In September 2018, Mars and American rappers Gucci Mane and Kodak Black released " Wake Up in the Sky " for Mane's thirteenth studio album, Evil Genius (2018). It reached number 11 in the US. In February 2019, Cardi B and Mars released " Please Me ". The single peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100. It also reached the top-20 of Canada, New Zealand and the UK. Five months later, British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran , American singer-songwriter Chris Stapleton , and Mars collaborated on " Blow ", for
12444-607: The Super Bowl halftime. It became one of the most watched halftime shows in Super Bowl history. In early 2016, Mars was working with bass player Jamareo Artis , musician Brody Brown, singer-songwriter Andrew Wyatt and EDM producer Skrillex . The album was set to be issued in March but was postponed several months due to Mars's appearance at the Super Bowl halftime show. At that time, seven songs had already been recorded. They were composed mainly by Shampoo Press & Curl,
12627-546: The Temptations . The singer, while in high school, became well known in Hawaiian entertainment, becoming the opening gig for a huge magic show and impersonating Michael Jackson in a celebrity-impersonators show, making $ 75 per performance. After his sister who lived in Los Angeles played his demo for Mike Lynn (the head of A&R at Dr. Dre 's Aftermath Entertainment record label), Lynn summoned Mars to Los Angeles. In 2003, shortly after graduating from high school at
12810-473: The U.S. It has since sold over five million copies globally. Four more singles were released throughout 2017 and 2018: " That's What I Like ", " Versace on the Floor ", " Chunky ", exclusively released in Australia, and a remix of " Finesse " featuring American rapper Cardi B . "That's What I Like" was the album's highest-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number one, while "Finesse" reached
12993-424: The U.S. and reached the top-20 of various countries. Mars started to promote his debut album as the opening act for American bands Maroon 5 and OneRepublic on the fall leg of the former act's Palm Trees & Power Lines Tour . Later, on October 18, 2010, the singer began a co-headlined European concert tour with McCoy that lasted until early November. Doo-Wops & Hooligans received further promotion when
13176-464: The US Billboard 200 and a music video was released for the song "The Other Side" featuring American singer CeeLo Green and B.o.B. Mars, with the Smeezingtons, also composed Green's successful single " Fuck You " (2010). On July 20, 2010, Mars released " Just the Way You Are " as the lead single from his debut studio album, Doo-Wops & Hooligans (2010), an album produced mainly by
13359-597: The USA cost up to $ 15, two-track stereophonic tapes were more successful in America during the second half of the 1950s. The history of stereo recording changed after the late 1957 introduction of the Westrex stereo phonograph disc , which used the groove format developed earlier by Blumlein. Decca Records in England came out with FFRR (Full Frequency Range Recording) in the 1940s, which became internationally accepted as
13542-617: The United Kingdom, after its official release. The track peaked at number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 and stayed there for 14 weeks. In the Mainstream Top 40 the aforementioned song peaked inside the top 10, at number 9, something which the previous single was unable to do, thus ending the top 10 streak. It was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). In Canada,
13725-463: The United States. It was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The track was performed live on Saturday Night Live and occasionally on The Moonshine Jungle Tour (2013–14). During a MTV interview, Bruno Mars explained why the track was the first on the track list of the album "It really shows you what this album is going to be, and just where I was when I started" it. He felt that anyone can easily relate to
13908-542: The Year for the title track and Song of The Year, Best R&B Performance and Best R&B Song for "That's What I Like". 24K Magic also won a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical , for the work of the album's engineers. Mars worked on Chic 's studio album It's About Time (2018), with the song expected to be featured on Chic's next studio album, according to musician Nile Rodgers . In early 2018, Mars worked with recording engineer Charles Moniz , as well as songwriting and recording production team
14091-407: The Year, Non-Classical as part of the Smeezingtons. At the 2012 Grammy Awards , Mars lost all the six categories in which he was nominated to British singer Adele . The categories included Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album for Doo-Wops & Hooligans , Best Pop Solo Performance , Record and Song of the Year for "Grenade", while Producer of the Year, Non-Classical as the Smeezingtons
14274-449: The Year, while "When I Was Your Man" was nominated for Best Pop Solo Performance. In the same year, the album was recognized with a Juno Award for International Album of the Year . Aside from his music career, Mars cast as Roberto in the movie Rio 2 (2014). He also contributed to the film's soundtrack with the song "Welcome Back". On November 10, 2014, British musician Mark Ronson released " Uptown Funk ", featuring Mars. The song
14457-510: The Year. In 2017, Guinness World Records recognized Mars as the "First Male Artist to achieve three 10-million-selling-singles". In October 2016, " 24K Magic " was released as the lead single of 24K Magic . It peaked at number four in the U.S. and reached the top in France and New Zealand. The album, issued on November 18, 2016, debuted at number two in Canada, France, New Zealand, and
14640-500: The additional benefit of being marginally louder than cylinders. Sales of the gramophone record overtook the cylinder ca. 1910, and by the end of World War I the disc had become the dominant commercial recording format. Edison, who was the main producer of cylinders, created the Edison Disc Record in an attempt to regain his market. The double-sided (nominally 78 rpm) shellac disc was the standard consumer music format from
14823-541: The adoption of his stage name was also an effort to "avoid being stereotyped", as the music industry tried to pigeonhole him as another Latin artist. They even tried to convince Mars to sing in Spanish. "I'd always been a working musician in Hawaii and never had problems paying rent. And then it's like, 'Now I'm in L.A. and my phone's getting shut off.' That's when reality hit. I started DJing. I told this person I could DJ because they said they could pay me $ 75 cash under
15006-424: The age of 17, Mars moved to Los Angeles to pursue a musical career. At the time, he lived on Mansfield Avenue and was surprised by the poverty and squalor of the neighborhood. He adopted his stage name from the childhood nickname his father gave him, adding "Mars" at the end because: "I felt like I didn't have no pizzazz, and a lot of girls say I'm out of this world, so I was like I guess I'm from Mars ." Moreover,
15189-452: The age of four, Mars began performing five days a week with his family's band, The Love Notes, and became known in Hawaii for his impersonation of Elvis Presley . When he was five he urinated on himself during a performance of Presley's " Can't Help Falling in Love " (1961), which led his parents to think they could be making a mistake. However, Mars never wavered. In 1990, Mars was featured in
15372-407: The air (but could not play them back—the purpose was only visual study) was the phonautograph , patented in 1857 by Parisian inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville . The earliest known recordings of the human voice are phonautograph recordings, called phonautograms , made in 1857. They consist of sheets of paper with sound-wave-modulated white lines created by a vibrating stylus that cut through
15555-791: The album include " When I Was Your Man ", " Treasure ", " Gorilla " and " Young Girls ". "When I Was Your Man" reached number one Billboard Hot 100, aside from Elvis Presley, no other male artist has achieved five number-one singles quicker than Mars. It also peaked at number three in Canada, number two in the UK, and was top-ten in various countries. "Treasure" reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 and number four in Canada, but had less commercial success in other countries. Mars contributed vocals to Jamaican-American EDM trio Major Lazer 's " Bubble Butt ", released in May 2013. The single also features American rappers Tyga , 2 Chainz , and singer Mystic . Mars ran his second headlining concert tour,
15738-410: The album was close to completion after months of production work, with a new sound and an unconfirmed release date. Mars is also planning a new aesthetic to go with it and is in early talks with Live Nation Entertainment to set up a tour throughout 2024 and 2025, with "large-scale, three-dimensional" performances. On August 16, 2024, Mars and Lady Gaga released their collaborative single " Die with
15921-508: The album, reflect "feel-good", carefree, and optimistic sentiments. However darker subjects are addressed in his songs, detailing failed relationships, pain and loneliness. His subsequent release, Unorthodox Jukebox , as with his debut album, is infused with different influences including disco, funk, rock, reggae and soul, as well as balladry . Lyrically, the album is different from the former, addressing traditional notions of romance, male chauvinism, and sexuality. The explicit content in
16104-494: The amount of data that can be stored on a single medium, such as Super Audio CD , DVD-A , Blu-ray Disc , and HD DVD became available, longer programs of higher quality fit onto a single disc. Sound files are readily downloaded from the Internet and other sources, and copied onto computers and digital audio players. Digital audio technology is now used in all areas of audio, from casual use of music files of moderate quality to
16287-417: The background of hiss, which was the only easily audible downside of mastering on tape instead of recording directly to disc. A competing system, dbx , invented by David Blackmer, also found success in professional audio. A simpler variant of Dolby's noise reduction system, known as Dolby B, greatly improved the sound of cassette tape recordings by reducing the especially high level of hiss that resulted from
16470-409: The backing vocals) remain from Doo-Wops ", while prospecting the earnest from "It Will Rain". On the other hand, Paste ' s Ryan Reed criticized Mars's for playing safe on "Young Girls", unlike most of the other tracks on the album. He explained that the singer "steps sideways" and the record "is a 'shout-out-to-the-honeys' belter" for various reasons. In 2013, "Young Girls" received an award at
16653-492: The basis of all electronic sound systems until the commercial introduction of the first transistor -based audio devices in the mid-1950s. During World War I, engineers in the United States and Great Britain worked on ways to record and reproduce, among other things, the sound of a German U-boat for training purposes. Acoustical recording methods of the time could not reproduce the sounds accurately. The earliest results were not promising. The first electrical recording issued to
16836-513: The biggest radio stations are reggae. That music brings people together. It's not urban music or pop music. It's just songs. That's what makes it cross over so well. The song comes first." Philip Lawrence , one of his music partners, stated: "What people don't know is there's a darker underbelly to Bruno Mars." Nevertheless, most of his music is romantic and Mars himself says: "I blame that on me singing to girls back in high school". Brody Brown , who has worked various times with Mars, affirmed that
17019-454: The cassette become the dominant consumer format for portable audio devices in the 1970s and 1980s. There had been experiments with multi-channel sound for many years – usually for special musical or cultural events – but the first commercial application of the concept came in the early 1970s with the introduction of Quadraphonic sound. This spin-off development from multitrack recording used four tracks (instead of
17202-407: The cassette's miniaturized tape format. The compact cassette format also benefited from improvements to the tape itself as coatings with wider frequency responses and lower inherent noise were developed, often based on cobalt and chrome oxides as the magnetic material instead of the more usual iron oxide. The multitrack audio cartridge had been in wide use in the radio industry, from the late 1950s to
17385-447: The commercial recording, distribution, and sale of sound recordings became a growing new international industry, with the most popular titles selling millions of units by the early 1900s. A process for mass-producing duplicate wax cylinders by molding instead of engraving them was put into effect in 1901. The development of mass-production techniques enabled cylinder recordings to become a major new consumer item in industrial countries and
17568-434: The conclusion that the best way to further his career was writing and producing hit songs." —Strang on developing Mars's career. Lindsey showed Mars and fellow songwriters Brody Brown and Jeff Bhasker (who Mars met through Mike Lynn) the ins and outs of writing pop music and acted as a mentor, helping them to hone their craft. Bhasker explained that Lindsey would "mentor us, and kind of give us lectures as to what
17751-505: The controversy came to focus on concern for the perception of moving image and sound. There are individual and cultural preferences for either method. While approaches and opinions vary, some emphasize sound as paramount, others focus on technology preferences as the deciding factor. Analog fans might embrace limitations as strengths of the medium inherent in the compositional, editing, mixing, and listening phases. Digital advocates boast flexibility in similar processes. This debate fosters
17934-456: The correct equipment, of the released music. It eventually faded out in the late 1970s, although this early venture paved the way for the eventual introduction of domestic surround sound systems in home theatre use, which gained popularity following the introduction of the DVD. The replacement of the relatively fragile vacuum tube by the smaller, rugged and efficient transistor also accelerated
18117-538: The cumbersome disc-to-disc editing procedures previously in some limited use, together with tape's consistently high audio quality finally convinced radio networks to routinely prerecord their entertainment programming, most of which had formerly been broadcast live. Also, for the first time, broadcasters, regulators and other interested parties were able to undertake comprehensive audio logging of each day's radio broadcasts. Innovations like multitracking and tape echo allowed radio programs and advertisements to be produced to
18300-407: The cylinder was the main consumer format from the late 1880s until around 1910. The next major technical development was the invention of the gramophone record , generally credited to Emile Berliner and patented in 1887, though others had demonstrated similar disk apparatus earlier, most notably Alexander Graham Bell in 1881. Discs were easier to manufacture, transport and store, and they had
18483-572: The development of the phonograph. Edison was working on a machine in 1877 that would transcribe telegraphic signals onto paper tape, which could then be transferred over the telegraph again and again. The phonograph was both in a cylinder and a disc form. On April 30, 1877, French poet, humorous writer and inventor Charles Cros submitted a sealed envelope containing a letter to the Academy of Sciences in Paris fully explaining his proposed method, called
18666-490: The development of various uncompressed and compressed digital audio file formats , processors capable and fast enough to convert the digital data to sound in real time , and inexpensive mass storage . This generated new types of portable digital audio players . The minidisc player, using ATRAC compression on small, re-writeable discs was introduced in the 1990s, but became obsolescent as solid-state non-volatile flash memory dropped in price. As technologies that increase
18849-675: The drummer of The Hooligans. When Lawrence was first told he should meet Mars he was reluctant to do so since he did not even have money for bus fare. Keith Harris , the drummer for the American musical group The Black Eyed Peas , told Lawrence: "Whatever it costs you to get out here, I'll reimburse you." Lawrence responded: "Just give me five dollars back for the bus." The pair began collaborating, writing songs for Mars, but they received many rejections from record labels. In 2006, Lawrence introduced Mars to his future A&R manager at Atlantic Records , Aaron Bay-Schuck . After hearing him play
19032-507: The earliest known mechanical musical instrument, in this case, a hydropowered (water-powered) organ that played interchangeable cylinders. According to Charles B. Fowler, this "... cylinder with raised pins on the surface remained the basic device to produce and reproduce music mechanically until the second half of the nineteenth century." Carvings in the Rosslyn Chapel from the 1560s may represent an early attempt to record
19215-444: The early 1910s to the late 1950s. In various permutations, the audio disc format became the primary medium for consumer sound recordings until the end of the 20th century. Although there was no universally accepted speed, and various companies offered discs that played at several different speeds, the major recording companies eventually settled on a de facto industry standard of nominally 78 revolutions per minute. The specified speed
19398-472: The first "big hit" he and Lawrence wrote was the 2009 single " Right Round " by Flo Rida : "That was our first taste of what could really happen with a hit we hundred-percented". He also co-wrote the Sugababes 's " Get Sexy " (2009) and provided backing vocals on their album Sweet 7 (2010). In 2009, he was featured as a singer on Far East Movement 's second studio album, Animal , on the track "3D". In
19581-477: The former's fourth studio album, No.6 Collaborations Project (2019). In October 2019, Mars posted a picture of himself in a recording studio, indicating new music. In February 2020, it was announced a partnership between Mars and Disney for a "music-themed theatrical narrative", in which the singer will both star and produce the movie. A month later, it was confirmed that Mars was working on his next album with American musician Babyface . While on quarantine,
19764-411: The freedom and luxury to walk into a studio and say, 'Today I want to do a hip-hop, R&B, soul or rock record'". He announced Unorthodox Jukebox release date, December 11, 2012. The album debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, eventually peaking at number one on the chart. It also charted at number one in Australia, Canada, and in the UK, where it became the third fastest-selling album by
19947-402: The high recording speeds required, they used enormous reels about one meter in diameter, and the thin tape frequently broke, sending jagged lengths of razor steel flying around the studio. Magnetic tape recording uses an amplified electrical audio signal to generate analogous variations of the magnetic field produced by a tape head , which impresses corresponding variations of magnetization on
20130-462: The latter is in charge of both the melody and lyrics of his tracks, "I'll just do the music, but Bruno does both. I chime in on some things with words, but the majority of the content is written by Bruno and Phil (Lawrence)." Mars is known for his retro showmanship, which is widely acclaimed by tour critics and reviewers. Deanna Ramsay of The Jakarta Post described Mars as a "truly global star". Boston Herald ' s Jim Sullivan compared
20313-540: The latter song. At the BET Awards 2022 Silk Sonic won Album of the Year for their debut album and Video of the Year . The same music video also won Video of the Year at the 2022 Soul Train Music Awards . In 2022, Mars continued his second concert residency Bruno Mars at Park MGM and started a small world tour in Sydney and Tokyo. The shows continued in 2023, in several countries such as South Korea, Philippines, Brazil, Chile, Georgia, Qatar and Israel. In 2024,
20496-523: The lead single of Rosé's debut album, Rosie (2024). The song became his second number one on the Billboard Global 200, reached the top spot in Australia and New Zealand. Mars was raised on his father's 1950s doo-wop collection–"simple four-chord songs that got straight to the point"–and on Little Richard, Frankie Lymon, Little Anthony , and Jerry Lee Lewis . As a child, Mars spent time impersonating Elvis Presley . The playacting had
20679-521: The lyrics are "sweet" and tortuous as he sings "Oh, I still dream of a simple life/ Boy meets girl/ makes her his wife/ But love don't exist when you live like this... All these roads steer me wrong/ But I still drive them all night long/ all night long". There is a sentiment of "lament" in the song, "Oh you young wild girls/ You'll be the death of me". "Young Girls" debuted to mixed and positive reviews among critics . After its premiere during Mars's performance on Saturday Night Live , it became available as
20862-432: The lyrics called the track "enjoyable". The lyrics have not gone undecided for PopMatters ' Matt Cibula who named them a "classic lament" and added "is as widescreen and wide-open as things get these days". The same could be said for Jason Lipshut who, while writing for Billboard , found Mars's "recognizing sin while indulging in it" on the "sleek" lyrics and composition. However, a "throwback vibe (established from
21045-540: The main way that songs and instrumental pieces were recorded was through music notation . While notation indicates the pitches of the melody and their rhythm many aspects of the performance are undocumented. Indeed, in the Medieval era, Gregorian chant did not indicate the rhythm of the chant. In the Baroque era, instrumental pieces often lack a tempo indication and usually none of the ornaments were written down. As
21228-523: The man I am. I used to do a lot of shows in Hawaii with my father's band. Everybody in my family sings, everyone plays instruments ... I've just been surrounded by it." When he attended President Theodore Roosevelt High School in Honolulu he sang in a group called The School Boys, who did several shows including opening for his father's new band, performing songs by the Isley Brothers and
21411-475: The microphone to a digital form by the process of sampling . This lets the audio data be stored and transmitted by a wider variety of media. Digital recording stores audio as a series of binary numbers (zeros and ones) representing samples of the amplitude of the audio signal at equal time intervals, at a sample rate high enough to convey all sounds capable of being heard . A digital audio signal must be reconverted to analog form during playback before it
21594-651: The most demanding professional applications. New applications such as internet radio and podcasting have appeared. Technological developments in recording, editing, and consuming have transformed the record , movie and television industries in recent decades. Audio editing became practicable with the invention of magnetic tape recording , but technologies like MIDI , sound synthesis and digital audio workstations allow greater control and efficiency for composers and artists. Digital audio techniques and mass storage have reduced recording costs such that high-quality recordings can be produced in small studios. Today,
21777-402: The moving tape. In playback mode, the signal path is reversed, the tape head acting as a miniature electric generator as the varyingly magnetized tape passes over it. The original solid steel ribbon was replaced by a much more practical coated paper tape, but acetate soon replaced paper as the standard tape base. Acetate has fairly low tensile strength and if very thin it will snap easily, so it
21960-599: The next few years, the lesser record companies licensed or developed other electrical recording systems. By 1929 only the budget label Harmony was still issuing new recordings made by the old acoustical process. Comparison of some surviving Western Electric test recordings with early commercial releases indicates that the record companies artificially reduced the frequency range of recordings so they would not overwhelm non-electronic playback equipment, which reproduced very low frequencies as an unpleasant rattle and rapidly wore out discs with strongly recorded high frequencies. In
22143-488: The next two years, Blumlein developed stereo microphones and a stereo disc-cutting head, and recorded a number of short films with stereo soundtracks. In the 1930s, experiments with magnetic tape enabled the development of the first practical commercial sound systems that could record and reproduce high-fidelity stereophonic sound . The experiments with stereo during the 1930s and 1940s were hampered by problems with synchronization. A major breakthrough in practical stereo sound
22326-466: The number-one singles " Just the Way You Are ", " Grenade ", and " The Lazy Song ". His second album, Unorthodox Jukebox (2012), explored various genres and had two U.S. number one singles, " Locked Out of Heaven " and " When I Was Your Man ". In 2014, Mars was featured on Mark Ronson 's " Uptown Funk ", which spent a total of seven weeks atop the UK Singles Chart and fourteen weeks atop
22509-405: The only issued electrical recording. Several record companies and independent inventors, notably Orlando Marsh , experimented with equipment and techniques for electrical recording in the early 1920s. Marsh's electrically recorded Autograph Records were already being sold to the public in 1924, a year before the first such offerings from the major record companies, but their overall sound quality
22692-416: The paleophone. Though no trace of a working paleophone was ever found, Cros is remembered by some historians as an early inventor of a sound recording and reproduction machine. The first practical sound recording and reproduction device was the mechanical phonograph cylinder , invented by Thomas Edison in 1877 and patented in 1878. The invention soon spread across the globe and over the next two decades
22875-665: The playback volume of the three audio channels. Because of the complex equipment this system required, Disney exhibited the movie as a roadshow, and only in the United States. Regular releases of the movie used standard mono optical 35 mm stock until 1956, when Disney released the film with a stereo soundtrack that used the Cinemascope four-track magnetic sound system. German audio engineers working on magnetic tape developed stereo recording by 1941. Of 250 stereophonic recordings made during WW2, only three survive: Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto with Walter Gieseking and Arthur Rother,
23058-808: The process of making a recording is separated into tracking, mixing and mastering . Multitrack recording makes it possible to capture signals from several microphones, or from different takes to tape, disc or mass storage allowing previously unavailable flexibility in the mixing and mastering stages. There are many different digital audio recording and processing programs running under several computer operating systems for all purposes, ranging from casual users and serious amateurs working on small projects to professional sound engineers who are recording albums, film scores and doing sound design for video games . Digital dictation software for recording and transcribing speech has different requirements; intelligibility and flexible playback facilities are priorities, while
23241-413: The processing of the video, saying "It's going to be something I’ve never done before, I promise you that". A day before the performance on Victoria's Secret show an official audio video of the song was uploaded to YouTube . The official music video was never released. "Young Girls" made its debut during a performance on Saturday Night Live in October 2012. On December 4, 2012, Mars recorded performance on
23424-549: The public, with little fanfare, was of November 11, 1920, funeral service for The Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey , London. The recording engineers used microphones of the type used in contemporary telephones. Four were discreetly set up in the abbey and wired to recording equipment in a vehicle outside. Although electronic amplification was used, the audio was weak and unclear, as only possible in those circumstances. For several years, this little-noted disc remained
23607-673: The radio, also influenced him. Mars's musical style gravitated initially towards R&B . He was influenced by artists such as Keith Sweat , Jodeci , and R. Kelly . As a child he also took notice of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis , New Edition , Bobby Brown , Boyz II Men , Teddy Riley , and Babyface . At the same time, he also listened to 1950s rock 'n' roll , doo-wop music, and Motown . In high school, he listened to classic rock groups such as Led Zeppelin , and The Beatles , whose influences can be heard in his work, as well as singers with high voices, like Stevie Wonder and Freddie Mercury . Bob Marley , and local bands in Hawaii, were
23790-681: The record "There's a moment in your life where you start going out every night, and it's so fun, but then you start to lose yourself". The singer compared the song's sentiment to " Lookin' for Love in All the Wrong Places ", adding "It's another confession". In a different interview Mars furthered the concept of the track as it's about you "losing yourself", which happened to him in L.A. during his early years. He added, "If you're out there wilding out, drinking and partying, that's not real life." Mars stated that he felt like "an old blues man" when writing
23973-590: The recording industry. Tape made possible the first sound recordings totally created by electronic means, opening the way for the bold sonic experiments of the Musique Concrète school and avant-garde composers like Karlheinz Stockhausen , which in turn led to the innovative pop music recordings of artists such as the Beatles and the Beach Boys . The ease and accuracy of tape editing, as compared to
24156-540: The recording process. These included improved microphones and auxiliary devices such as electronic filters, all dependent on electronic amplification to be of practical use in recording. In 1906, Lee De Forest invented the Audion triode vacuum tube, an electronic valve that could amplify weak electrical signals. By 1915, it was in use in long-distance telephone circuits that made conversations between New York and San Francisco practical. Refined versions of this tube were
24339-594: The rights to the Blattnerphone, and newly developed Marconi-Stille recorders were installed in the BBC's Maida Vale Studios in March 1935. The tape used in Blattnerphones and Marconi-Stille recorders was the same material used to make razor blades, and not surprisingly the fearsome Marconi-Stille recorders were considered so dangerous that technicians had to operate them from another room for safety. Because of
24522-466: The sale of consumer high-fidelity sound systems from the 1960s onward. In the 1950s, most record players were monophonic and had relatively low sound quality. Few consumers could afford high-quality stereophonic sound systems. In the 1960s, American manufacturers introduced a new generation of modular hi-fi components — separate turntables, pre-amplifiers, amplifiers, both combined as integrated amplifiers, tape recorders, and other ancillary equipment like
24705-505: The same tape many times, sounds could be duplicated from tape to tape with only minor loss of quality, and recordings could now be very precisely edited by physically cutting the tape and rejoining it. Within a few years of the introduction of the first commercial tape recorder—the Ampex 200 model, launched in 1948—American musician-inventor Les Paul had invented the first multitrack tape recorder , ushering in another technical revolution in
24888-514: The same time, sound recordings enabled music lovers outside the West to hear the most famous North American and European groups and singers. As digital recording developed, so did a controversy commonly known as the analog versus digital controversy. Audio professionals, audiophiles, consumers, musicians alike contributed to the debate based on their interaction with the media and the preferences for analog or digital processes. Scholarly discourse on
25071-550: The same time. On November 26, 2013, it was released as an official single in Australia. On the following week, it was the most added track to radio stations. Despite that, the highest position the single was able to peak was at number 62, when the song was set to be released as the second single. Nevertheless, the record was certified gold by the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA). "Young Girls" reached its highest mark at number 83 in
25254-467: The same year, he was also featured on American pastor and hip hop artist Jaeson Ma 's debut single "Love" and on American rapper Travie McCoy 's "One at a Time", a charity single for MTV 's Staying Alive foundation. He reached prominence as a solo artist after being featured on, and composing (as part of the production group the Smeezingtons ) American rapper B.o.B 's " Nothin' on You " (2009) and McCoy's " Billionaire " (2010); both songs peaked within
25437-404: The sheet music, the song is composed in the key of A major with a time signature in common time , and a moderate groove of 125 beats per minute . The song opens with "methodical strings " mixed with "quadruplets, floppy and fuzz wind in the opening bars", along with synths and a piano as Mars's vocal delivery "soars". The music progresses with a "thumping martial beat" on the percussion of
25620-728: The showmanship of Mars to Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley. Kevin Johnson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch called Mars a "consummate performer." The Boston Globe 's Sarah Rodman said that Mars shows an "indefatigable ecstatic approach to performing" and "classic showmanship." In the same vein, Jim Farber of the Daily News commented about the halftime show at Super Bowl XLVIII that Mars "brings old-school showmanship to dynamic performance." The singer took its inspiration by playing videotapes of Elvis, James Brown and Michael Jackson when he
25803-699: The singer embarked on his first headlined concert tour, The Doo-Wops & Hooligans Tour , which ran from November 2010 to January 2012. Nevertheless, in February 2011, a joint co-headlining tour between Mars and Janelle Monáe was announced, dubbed Hooligans in Wondaland Tour (2011). The concert tour was performed in North America in May and June 2011. Mars turned down offers to open for notable artists on arena tours, opting instead to play at smaller venues such as theaters and ballrooms. This made
25986-508: The singer wrote music every day for his upcoming album. In the same year, Mars sold part of his song catalog to Warner Chappell Music , keeping a small share. In exchange for its payment, Warner Chappell Music will collect future income from the songs. Mars's co-publishing contract with BMG was also a part of the deal. In 2021, Mars was reportedly paid $ 3.2 million to perform at a private show in Cape Cod , Massachusetts . The performance
26169-414: The singer's experience with Motown proved to be beneficial to his career. American songwriter and record producer Philip Lawrence was also signed to the label. After Mars was dropped by the label less than a year after being signed, he stayed in Los Angeles and landed a music publishing deal in 2005 with American record producers Steve Lindsey and Cameron Strang at Westside Independent. "Bruno came to
26352-588: The song " Gorilla " caused a controversy in Australia. Mars's third album, 24K Magic , was significantly influenced by R&B, funk , pop and new jack swing . Lyrically, the album involves themes of money and sex. An Evening with Silk Sonic is the debut studio album by American musical superduo Silk Sonic , composed of Mars and Anderson .Paak . The album is rooted in R&;B , soul , funk , hip hop and pop music. It explores themes of "seduction, romance", reconciliation and materialism. Mars possesses
26535-484: The song peaked at number 19 and Music Canada (MC) awarded a gold certification to it, and made the 2013 year end list of the Canadian Hot 100. On December 12, 2012, it was reported for the first time that "Young Girls" would be the second single, a music video was already in production as of December 6, 2012 and was set to be directed by Cameron Duddy . Mars admitted to be spending a lot of his time thinking about
26718-491: The song was issued to United States and United Kingdom contemporary hit radios on December 10, 2013, and February 17, 2014, respectively. Italian radio stations began adding the track onto their playlists on February 26, 2014. "Young Girls" is a "woeful" midtempo pop ballad. The "pop anthem" is also influenced by a groove from Mars's debut studio album , noticeable on the backing vocals, and it contains elements of "the shaded earnestness" found in " It Will Rain ". According to
26901-473: The song, and wanted to re-create the sentiment when some young girls were giving him the "runaround". Furthermore, he wasn't willing to stay too far from his roots when it comes to writing lyrics for his album, explaining "I'm not there yet...to sing about politics". He concluded that writing and singing songs about girls is what he knows best, "I'm not going to preach what I don't know. As much as I love 2 Chainz 's " All I Want for My Birthday " (2012). A demo of
27084-471: The song, only featuring the vocals and an acoustic guitar, was exclusively released as bonus track on the Target edition of the album, on December 11, 2012. Almost a year later, on November 5, 2013, the demo of the song was also included on the deluxe edition of the album, released in various countries. The song was re-registered with a new writing credit for Mac Davis . Davis explained he met Jeff Bhasker , who
27267-566: The sound quality was poor, so between the wars, they were primarily used for voice recording and marketed as business dictating machines. In 1924, a German engineer, Kurt Stille, improved the Telegraphone with an electronic amplifier. The following year, Ludwig Blattner began work that eventually produced the Blattnerphone, which used steel tape instead of wire. The BBC started using Blattnerphones in 1930 to record radio programs. In 1933, radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi 's company purchased
27450-423: The system and both made their earliest published electrical recordings in February 1925, but neither actually released them until several months later. To avoid making their existing catalogs instantly obsolete, the two long-time archrivals agreed privately not to publicize the new process until November 1925, by which time enough electrically recorded repertory would be available to meet the anticipated demand. During
27633-408: The table. I didn't know how to DJ. I lost that job pretty quick." —Mars speaking about his experiences of moving to Los Angeles to pursue a musical career. Shortly after moving to Los Angeles, Mars signed a record contract with Motown Records in 2004, but the deal "went nowhere", leading him to have a conversation with will.i.am 's management, which also turned out to be fruitless. However,
27816-568: The top ten of various countries, and " Count On Me ", which served as the final single in Australia. Mars released " It Will Rain " for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 film soundtrack (2011). The single reached number three in the U.S. and number two in New Zealand. During this period, Mars featured on " Lighters " with American hip hop duo Bad Meets Evil , " Mirror " with American rapper Lil Wayne , and " Young, Wild & Free " with American rappers Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg . The songs peaked at number four, sixteen, and seven in
27999-616: The top ten of various music charts, with the former charting at number one on both the United States Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart . Mars said of these successful singles: "I think those songs weren't meant to be full-sung songs. If I'd sung all of 'Nothin' on You', it might've sounded like some '90s R&B ." On May 11, 2010, Mars released his debut extended play (EP), It's Better If You Don't Understand . It peaked at number 99 on
28182-577: The top-three. Both singles reached number three in Canada, number four and two in New Zealand, respectively. All appeared on Billboard ' s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs , with "That's What I Like" and "Finesse" reaching number one. In late 2016, the singer started his second concert residency titled Bruno Mars at Park MGM . He also announced his third headlining concert tour, 24K Magic World Tour (2017-18), which grossed more than $ 300 million worldwide. On November 29, 2017, CBS aired Mars's first TV concert special, Bruno Mars: 24K Magic Live at
28365-430: The tour less lucrative, but helped him build his fan base. At the 2011 Grammy Awards , Mars won his first Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Just the Way You Are" and received other six nominations for his work: Best Rap Song , Best Rap/Sung Collaboration and Record of the Year for "Nothin' on You"; the latter category along with Song of the Year for "Fuck You" by CeeLo Green, and Producer of
28548-471: The tour spawned shows in Tokyo, Bangkok, Singapore and concluded with a 14-show tour in Brazil, Bruno Mars: Live in Brazil . In February 2023, Brody Brown revealed that Mars was working on his fourth solo studio album, and called him to help produce it. During that year, Mars also worked with Philip Lawrence , American singer-songwriter James Fauntleroy and D'Mile . In May 2023, a music insider revealed
28731-514: The track a B− rating, praising the melody and Mars's vocal delivery, writing "he makes it all sound so sweet, and as if he really is tortured by these young girls", but ultimately calling the lyrics "a little skeevy". Jon Caramanica of The New York Times , while reviewing the album, believed that it "swells something serious. The ambition is undeniable". He compared it to the music of U2 and Daughtry . On mixed review, Andy Gill of The Independent , while describing Mars's "impassioned shame" on
28914-509: The track re-entered at number 63 on the latter chart, it debuted in France at number 123, in the United Kingdom at number 141 and the song debuted at the top spot on the South Korea International Singles chart. In Australia, when the record was scheduled to be the second single from the album, it debuted at number 62 and it made its first appearance at number 27 in the New Zealand charts, peaking at number 23 around
29097-495: The two ears. This discovery was commercialized in 1890 with the Théâtrophone system, which operated for over forty years until 1932. In 1931, Alan Blumlein , a British electronics engineer working for EMI , designed a way to make the sound of an actor in a film follow his movement across the screen. In December 1931, he submitted a patent application including the idea, and in 1933 this became UK patent number 394,325 . Over
29280-615: The two used in stereo) and four speakers to create a 360-degree audio field around the listener. Following the release of the first consumer 4-channel hi-fi systems, a number of popular albums were released in one of the competing four-channel formats; among the best known are Mike Oldfield 's Tubular Bells and Pink Floyd 's The Dark Side of the Moon . Quadraphonic sound was not a commercial success, partly because of competing and somewhat incompatible four-channel sound systems (e.g., CBS , JVC , Dynaco and others all had systems) and generally poor quality, even when played as intended on
29463-450: The use of a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc so as to pluck the tuned teeth (or lamellae ) of a steel comb. The fairground organ , developed in 1892, used a system of accordion-folded punched cardboard books. The player piano , first demonstrated in 1876, used a punched paper scroll that could store a long piece of music. The most sophisticated of the piano rolls were "hand-played," meaning that they were duplicates from
29646-566: The use of mechanical analogs of electrical circuits and developed a superior "rubber line" recorder for cutting the groove into the wax master in the disc recording system. By 1924, such dramatic progress had been made that Western Electric arranged a demonstration for the two leading record companies, the Victor Talking Machine Company and the Columbia Phonograph Company . Both soon licensed
29829-446: The world to hear this song that I wrote called 'Young Girls,' and I put it out". However, a week later, while performing " When I Was Your Man " on the third-season finale of The Voice , he announced that the track played would be the second official single from the album. The fifth and overall single, "Young Girls", was first released in Australia, on November 26, 2013, after being promoted by Mars in radio station, Nova . Subsequently,
30012-549: Was 78.26 rpm in America and 77.92 rpm throughout the rest of the world. The difference in speeds was due to the difference in the cycle frequencies of the AC electricity that powered the stroboscopes used to calibrate recording lathes and turntables. The nominal speed of the disc format gave rise to its common nickname, the "seventy-eight" (though not until other speeds had become available). Discs were made of shellac or similar brittle plastic-like materials, played with needles made from
30195-437: Was a child he had a small version of a drum set, guitar, piano, and some percussion and learned to play the instruments. When Mars was 12, his parents divorced, ending The Love Notes act. His father's various businesses which ranged from temporary-tattoo parlors to memorabilia shops, failed. As a result, there was no longer a steady source of income. He moved out of his parents' house along with his brother and father. They lived in
30378-471: Was a major commercial success, reaching number one in several countries, including Australia, Canada and New Zealand. "Uptown Funk" spent a total of fourteen and seven weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart, respectively. The song became a worldwide phenomenon with a major impact on pop culture . In September 2014, Mars began working on his third studio album, affirming, "Now it's time to start writing chapter 3". He had not come up with
30561-414: Was acceptable. The compact 45 format required very little material. Vinyl offered improved performance, both in stamping and in playback. Vinyl records were, over-optimistically, advertised as "unbreakable". They were not, but they were much less fragile than shellac, which had itself once been touted as "unbreakable" compared to wax cylinders. Sound recording began as a purely mechanical process. Except for
30744-466: Was delivered to Motorola CEO son's wedding. On February 26, 2021, Mars and American rapper Anderson .Paak announced they have recorded an album together under the band name Silk Sonic . Their debut album, An Evening with Silk Sonic , released on November 12, 2021, features American musician Bootsy Collins as a special guest host. It was mainly produced by Mars and American record producer and songwriter D'Mile . The album debuted at number two on
30927-459: Was further improved just after World War II by American audio engineer John T. Mullin with backing from Bing Crosby Enterprises. Mullin's pioneering recorders were modifications of captured German recorders. In the late 1940s, the Ampex company produced the first tape recorders commercially available in the US. Magnetic tape brought about sweeping changes in both radio and the recording industry. Sound could be recorded, erased and re-recorded on
31110-414: Was in the studio with Mars, through Neil Jacobson. Bhasker asked him to come to the studio and at that time they were looking at a rhyme for the chorus. Davis ended up writing the hook. He won a BMI Pop Award in 2015 due to his work on this song. "Young Girls" was written by Mars, Philip Lawrence , Levine, Bhasker, Emile Haynie and Davis, while production was handled by the former three under their alias,
31293-530: Was in turn eventually superseded by polyester. This technology, the basis for almost all commercial recording from the 1950s to the 1980s, was developed in the 1930s by German audio engineers who also rediscovered the principle of AC biasing (first used in the 1920s for wire recorders ), which dramatically improved the frequency response of tape recordings. The K1 Magnetophon was the first practical tape recorder, developed by AEG in Germany in 1935. The technology
31476-411: Was introduced by RCA Victor in 1949. In the US and most developed countries, the two new vinyl formats completely replaced 78 rpm shellac discs by the end of the 1950s, but in some corners of the world, the 78 lingered on far into the 1960s. Vinyl was much more expensive than shellac, one of the several factors that made its use for 78 rpm records very unusual, but with a long-playing disc the added cost
31659-598: Was lost to English producer Paul Epworth . During that time, Mars also won his first American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist , International Male Solo Artist at the Brit Awards and the Echo Award for Best International Male. In March 2012, Mars signed a worldwide publishing deal with BMG Chrysalis US. In September 2012, when interviewed by Billboard magazine, Mars stated that his next album would be more musically varied, adding: "I want to have
31842-448: Was made by Bell Laboratories , who in 1937 demonstrated a practical system of two-channel stereo, using dual optical sound tracks on film. Major movie studios quickly developed three-track and four-track sound systems, and the first stereo sound recording for a commercial film was made by Judy Garland for the MGM movie Listen, Darling in 1938. The first commercially released movie with
32025-481: Was recognized as the Best Pop of 2013 at the MelOn Music Awards . Commercially, "Young Girls" charted in some countries, along with the released of its parent album, such as South Korea, where it reached number one, United Kingdom and Canada. Before it was canceled as the second single it peaked in Australia and New Zealand at 62 and 23, respectively. As the fifth single it reached the position of 19 in Canada and 32 in
32208-633: Was recorded by Mark Kozelek for his 2013 acoustic cover songs album Like Rats . It was also covered by Chris Jamison and Jonathan Wyndham during their Battle Round in the seventh season of The Voice and was made available for purchase on October 13, 2014. Credits adapted from the liner notes of Unorthodox Jukebox and ASCAP. Sales figures based on certification alone. Shipments figures based on certification alone. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. Bruno Mars Peter Gene Hernandez (born October 8, 1985), known professionally as Bruno Mars ,
32391-424: Was released as the first promotional single taken from Unorthodox Jukebox , on November 6, 2012, on iTunes . Later, it was reported by Mars that the record was scheduled to be the second single from the album. This release involved little planning according to Mars "I felt [it] was good. None of these things are planned, which one goes first, which one goes second. One day I wake up and I say, 'You know what? I want
32574-483: Was released as the first promotional single and later as the fifth overall single from Unorthodox Jukebox , being first serviced to contemporary hit radio in Australia on November 26, 2013. "Young Girls" received generally mixed to positive reviews. Many music critics noted the complex instrumental and praised Mars's vocals on the record. Its lyrics, detailing the fact of the singer being unable to resist his attraction to young girls, were met with criticism. The single
32757-479: Was small cartridge-based tape systems, of which the compact cassette , commercialized by the Philips electronics company in 1964, is the best known. Initially a low-fidelity format for spoken-word voice recording and inadequate for music reproduction, after a series of improvements it entirely replaced the competing consumer tape formats: the larger 8-track tape (used primarily in cars). The compact cassette became
32940-454: Was the first Super Bowl halftime headlined by a performer under 30 in a decade. It was the most watched halftime show in the history of the Super Bowl at that time, drawing a rating of 115.3 million viewers. The viewership for the halftime show was higher than that for the game. At the 2014 Grammy Awards , Mars won the award for Best Pop Vocal Album for Unorthodox Jukebox . "Locked Out of Heaven" earned nominations for Record and Song of
33123-410: Was too low to demonstrate any obvious advantage over traditional acoustical methods. Marsh's microphone technique was idiosyncratic and his work had little if any impact on the systems being developed by others. Telephone industry giant Western Electric had research laboratories with material and human resources that no record company or independent inventor could match. They had the best microphone,
33306-537: Was written for Mars. The duo did not want to give the song away, but when they were offered $ 20,000 for it, they agreed. The sale of this song allowed them to continue working, and Mars and Lawrence decided that they would write and produce songs together for other artists. Eventually Creed became the former's manager for nine years. Before becoming a successful solo artist, Mars was an acknowledged music producer, writing songs for Alexandra Burke , Adam Levine , Brandy , Sean Kingston , and K'naan . Mars stated that
33489-532: Was younger. Now before shows he watches Brown's T.A.M.I. Show , James Hendrix's Live at Woodstock or Prince performing " Purple Rain " (1984). Sound recording and reproduction Sound recording and reproduction is the electrical , mechanical , electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music , or sound effects . The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording . Acoustic analog recording
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