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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樣，前公司非常反對他所寫的歌表示無法想像有哪家電台會播這樣的歌那這也是專輯名稱的來由(不正統的) 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. 所以他決定要跳脫pop的框架，展現和首專完全不一樣的風格為此也請來了各式各樣的製作人 "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." 這段是Mark Ronson的談話說Bruno當初找上門求合作的時候就表明：成品要聽起來完全不像兩人"應該"會搞出來的東西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." 雖然才說批特很少和女聲合作，不過新專確實是有這樣一首的和Esperanza Spalding一起合唱的Old & Crazy(不過這首是收在TARGET版本裡的) 這首也是復古到無以復加，會讓你彷若置身在1920年代的巴黎夜店為求質感還特地用了老式麥克風來錄製還加入了一點Django Reinhardt的採樣橋段! 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." 老面孔合作夥伴Diplo(首專Liquor Store Blues的協力製作人)這次也參與了 Money Make Her Smile的製作這首的誕生來源滿有趣的，當初寫來就是為了要成為脫衣舞吧的國歌這樣(XD?! 據說是因為當初在巴黎開完演唱會之後，一群人順道去了脫衣舞吧慶功結果在介紹Bruno的時候背景音樂是Just the Way You Are… 批特說真是當下囧到深處，所以之後下定決心要好好寫一首來雪恥 (感嘆一下這種好像很正經卻又好像歪到不行的創作理由吧!!!) 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是純鋼琴伴奏的正宗抒情歌嗯雖然剛開始錄製的時候批特想說以後打死都不要再錄這樣的拔辣情歌了但結束之後非常自我感覺良好，覺得這應該是他自己唱過最真誠實在的歌了然後他也表示當未來完全不可捉摸充滿挑戰性時，他才會覺得自己是確切活著的以上! 新聞來源 http://0rz.tw/g3ZIG -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 124.218.8.164