Bruno Mars

by **pollei** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 1:14 am

swiftie13 wrote:
pollei wrote:Where is Leo92 when you need him!?
I just had a dream he came back.. I miss him sooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!!! one of my best buds here

Me too

Where is he?

by **swiftie13** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 1:17 am

pollei wrote:
swiftie13 wrote:
pollei wrote:Where is Leo92 when you need him!?
I just had a dream he came back.. I miss him sooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!!! one of my best buds here
Me too Where is he?

I have no idea! :evil:

so glad you came back! The posters I made friends with while a young spammer here are all gone!

by **Serby** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 1:28 am

^ I'm a young spammer, we can be friends

.. I promise I won't go

by **Titan3510** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 9:18 am

I want Bruno to make R&B music. Stuff like It Will Rain...

And I want it to have a bit of a lyrical edge in it. And since we have an abundance of sex ballads, he should stay away from making those...

by **Wmosi** » Sat Apr 07, 2012 10:51 pm

Titan3510 wrote:I want Bruno to make R&B music.

What about Europe??

He'd flop on a WW scale if he went strictly R&B. :lol:

by **Titan3510** » Sun Apr 08, 2012 2:19 am

Wmosi wrote:
Titan3510 wrote:I want Bruno to make R&B music.
What about Europe??

He'd flop on a WW scale if he went strictly R&B.

I don't know...

...I just think soul music suits Bruno better than pop music does...

And, you said so yourself....he can't do another old school album...

How much did Bruno sell outside of the US by the way?

by **abi** » Sun Apr 08, 2012 8:15 am

Titan3510 wrote:How much did Bruno sell outside of the US by the way?

The album?

+ 1,384,000 UK (4x Platinum)
+ 400,000 Germany (2x Platinum)
+ 280,000 Australia (4x Platinum)
+ 160,000 Canada (2x Platinum)
+ 100,000 Japan (Gold)
+ 75,000 New Zealand (5x Platinum)

by **Wmosi** » Sun Apr 08, 2012 11:57 am

Titan3510 wrote:
Wmosi wrote:
Titan3510 wrote:I want Bruno to make R&B music.
What about Europe??

He'd flop on a WW scale if he went strictly R&B.
I don't know...

...I just think soul music suits Bruno better than pop music does...

And, you said so yourself....he can't do another old school album...

How much did Bruno sell outside of the US by the way?

According to MusicCharts.net, the album's at 5.7 million WW, and only about 1.6 million of that is from the States.

And yeah, Soul music definitely suits him better, but there are other ways of going around that, rather than reverting to R&B.

Plus there are a ton of male R&B artists out there already, there's nothing new he'll be bringing to the table, on that end.

by **Titan3510** » Sun Apr 08, 2012 1:26 pm

abi wrote:
Titan3510 wrote:How much did Bruno sell outside of the US by the way?
The album?

No...the movie...

:wink:

Wmosi wrote:According to MusicCharts.net, the album's at 5.7 million WW, and only about 1.6 million of that is from the States.

That's good...

And yeah, Soul music definitely suits him better, but there are other ways of going around that, rather than reverting to R&B.

Like what?

Plus there are a ton of male R&B artists out there already, there's nothing new he'll be bringing to the table, on that end.

I don't agree. Bruno can certainly do his own thing and have his own style and still be a credible male R&B artist with his own fanbase...

And the whole electro-soul thing that you were talking about? Wouldn't that basically end up being R&B?

All I'm saying is that he should try it. It Will Rain and his R&B tracks are better than a lot of the throwback pop/rock songs on Doo Wops and Hooligans.

He could help R&B be an actually profitable genre again....

by **Serby** » Sun Apr 08, 2012 2:45 pm

Titan3510 wrote:
abi wrote:
Titan3510 wrote:How much did Bruno sell outside of the US by the way?
The album?
No...the movie...

Titan, this is example of when you sound rude/cold. At least, I find it like that.

by **Titan3510** » Sun Apr 08, 2012 9:29 pm

serbia95riri wrote:
Titan3510 wrote:
abi wrote:
Titan3510 wrote:How much did Bruno sell outside of the US by the way?
The album?
No...the movie...

Titan, this is example of when you sound rude/cold. At least, I find it like that.

It was a joke... :lol:

You didn't see my wink emoticon...

Then again, it's an inside joke. So it's going to look weird from the outside...

Abi knows what's up.

by **Wmosi** » Sun Apr 08, 2012 9:42 pm

Titan3510 wrote:I don't agree. Bruno can certainly do his own thing and have his own style and still be a credible male R&B artist with his own fanbase...

And the whole electro-soul thing that you were talking about? Wouldn't that basically end up being R&B?

All I'm saying is that he should try it. It Will Rain and his R&B tracks are better than a lot of the throwback pop/rock songs on Doo Wops and Hooligans.

Which R&B tracks are you referring to? :lol:

Apart from Nothin on You (which is legit amazing)....

Electro-Soul i'm thinking of doesn't necessarily have to be R&B. I can't think of any examples at the moment though. :oops:

by **Titan3510** » Sun Apr 08, 2012 9:55 pm

Wmosi wrote:
Titan3510 wrote:I don't agree. Bruno can certainly do his own thing and have his own style and still be a credible male R&B artist with his own fanbase...

And the whole electro-soul thing that you were talking about? Wouldn't that basically end up being R&B?

All I'm saying is that he should try it. It Will Rain and his R&B tracks are better than a lot of the throwback pop/rock songs on Doo Wops and Hooligans.
Which R&B tracks are you referring to? Apart from Nothin on You (which is legit amazing)....

Electro-Soul i'm thinking of doesn't necessarily have to be R&B. I can't think of any examples at the moment though.

To be honest...I feel the same way.

Outside of Nothin' On You and Talking To The Moon, I can't think of any examples either...

Not by name at least. A good chunk of his unreleased songs are R&B though....

by **swiftie13** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 1:37 pm

serbia95riri wrote:
Titan3510 wrote:
abi wrote:
Titan3510 wrote:How much did Bruno sell outside of the US by the way?
The album?
No...the movie...

Titan, this is example of when you sound rude/cold. At least, I find it like that.

I found this a funny joke! :lol:

..

by **abi** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 1:50 pm

Titan3510 wrote:
Wmosi wrote:Which R&B tracks are you referring to? Apart from Nothin on You (which is legit amazing)....

Electro-Soul i'm thinking of doesn't necessarily have to be R&B. I can't think of any examples at the moment though.
To be honest...I feel the same way.

Outside of Nothin' On You and Talking To The Moon, I can't think of any examples either...

Not by name at least. A good chunk of his unreleased songs are R&B though....

If you count "Climax" as an electro-soul track, then I could really see Bruno doing stuff like that and making it a huge hit.

PS: Titan did you read my PM? :oops:

by **jadders** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 9:44 am

I think the second album might be a bit of jazz because he just said on twitter that Esperanza Spalding is the person he wanted to collabrate with next

by **Wmosi** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:53 pm

I found the perfect album that describes the sound i was talking about earlier - 808s & Heartbreaks.

by **Noahh** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 10:26 pm

Wmosi wrote:I found the perfect album that describes the sound i was talking about earlier - 808s & Heartbreaks.

Yes I would love that!

by **Pompeii** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 10:40 pm

Noahh wrote:
Wmosi wrote:I found the perfect album that describes the sound i was talking about earlier - 808s & Heartbreaks.
Yes I would love that!

Yeah, me too.

by **abi** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 11:00 pm

^No thanks. :lol:

by **Noahh** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 11:01 pm

Well I mean not the autotuned vocals, but more like the sound/vibe/productions of 808's & Heartbreak... :wink:

by **Wmosi** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 11:05 pm

Noahh wrote:Well I mean not the autotuned vocals, but more like the sound/vibe/productions of 808's & Heartbreak...

Exactly.

Can you imagine his vocals over the production on Heartless, Love Lockdown or Paranoid. I'd die.

So long as we don't get a rehash of the DW&H sound, or a bunch of run-of-the-mill R&B songs, i'm good.

by **Noahh** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 11:06 pm

Wmosi wrote:
Noahh wrote:Well I mean not the autotuned vocals, but more like the sound/vibe/productions of 808's & Heartbreak...
Exactly.

Can you imagine his vocals over the production on Heartless, Love Lockdown or Paranoid. I'd die.

WORD!!

That would be amazing! 8-)

by **Titan3510** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 3:17 am

Wmosi wrote:
Noahh wrote:Well I mean not the autotuned vocals, but more like the sound/vibe/productions of 808's & Heartbreak...
Exactly.

Can you imagine his vocals over the production on Heartless, Love Lockdown or Paranoid. I'd die.

by **ThaInfo1** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 6:57 am

I'd melt if he did a song like Climax.