Rolling Stone

Review: Bruno Mars’ ’24k Magic’ Is a Lush Nineties Throwback

Though 24k Magic is shorter than any Stooges record, human Super Bowl halftime show Bruno Mars still wears a lot of hats: giddy uptown-funk savant, bumping-and-grinding R&B time-traveler, Ashford & ...
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Bruno Mars' '24K Magic' is here: Download and streaming options for the new album

Are your pinky rings on? Are your shoulders and arms ready to lift them to the moon? Because Bruno Mars' 24K Magic, which houses 2016's premier pinky ring anthem "24K Magic," is here. Several of the ...
MusicRadar

“We wrote 24K Magic when Uptown Funk was No 1. So if you hear the same spirit in that song, that's why”: A decade on, we look back at the musical theory and retro gear that ...

As modern classics go, 2016's 24K Magic, the title track of Bruno Mars' third studio album, is a solid entry in the canon, made all the more surprising by its heavy cribbing from funk and classic 80s ...
AV Club

Bruno Mars takes homage-pop to the next level on the escapist 24K Magic

After Marvin Gaye’s family won a lawsuit against Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams for copyright infringement over the hit “Blurred Lines,” it stood to reason that similar lawsuits would follow. In ...