Last year he hit the top spot with smash hit, 'Just The Way You Are', an adorably nauseous pop-song, that is still hanging around in the charts today. More recently his name has hit the headlines after rumours of him starting up his own record label.
His debut album Doo-Wops & Hooligans, is full of more sickeningly sweet pop and R'n'B
songs but, the ones to watch out for are the modern funk pop sounds that are laced throughout the album.
The first track on the album 'Grenade', is
a pop song with bite! Swapping the slushy for hard powerful metaphors, to show the struggle of someone prepared to do everything for the lady and that just not being reciprocated.
Lyrics that exchange the mush for the brash, 'Throw my hand on a blade for ya', 'I'd jump in front of a train for ya' stand out and indicate passion within the track.
This tracks is narrated by the drums in the music, they speed up and slow down in-accordance with the emotion in a song, becoming the heartbeat.
The best song on album is called 'Runaway Baby', this is a fast, playful funk song. The pace is fast and the chorus seems Maroon 5ived, and would
fit perfectly onto 'Songs about Jane'. This is just a purely fun pop song.
Great lyrics such as, 'so many eager young bunnies that i'd like to pursue. Now even though they are eating out of the palm of my hand there'
s only one carrot and they all gotta share it', show you that he is not only a talented musician, but, a great writer as well.
'Somewhere in Brooklyn' is sure to be released as a single soon as it is a modern Cinderella story, and everyone's a sucker for a fairy tale. The bridge is purposely , designed to be instantly recognised and sung along to, by the fact that every line rhymes and tells a short simple tale. Man sees girl, man likes girl, man loses girl, man has to find girl!
The chorus, "Somewhere, Somewhere in Brooklyn", although intended to be a mark of a love song, is extremely similar to a tune, from the 90s cartoon film, Fievel. A comparison, which I just cannot shift now.
When listening to Doo-Wops & Hooligans, you might be shocked to hear it's Bruno and not caramel voiced Buble! This album is deathly catchy and will turn into a guilty pleasure for people. Some of the tracks on the album are too gushy, far too gushy; 'Our first time', is definately one to miss! It's just too much cheese.
Who would have thought a man who was quoted in Rollingstone saying he chose the sirname 'Mars' to suggest, 'I'm so far out of this world you shouldn't fuck with me', would make such a mellow album.
Not all of the album lived up to the hype, which led to the album being released two weeks early to the original release date, but there are a few that are certainly ones to watch.
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