Bruno Mars

[iain28]

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=lKcexAkm ... KcexAkmEvI

Sounds like some band from the late 70s hmmm now let's think quiet catchy though !

[sockii]

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=lKcexAkmEvI&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DlKcexAkmEvI

Sounds like some band from the late 70s hmmm now let's think quiet catchy though !

Ah ha ha ha oh my. I saw some tweets yesterday about how Police-y it was but hadn't heard it until now.

Quick, someone mash that up with that Gotye song we're all sick to death of now.

[TheEqualizer]

I like the Police-y-ness (or should it be Police-i-ness?)

[Divemistress of the Dark]

It sounds like a cover song! Guess I should've known there was a reason I have a slew of BM in my Spotify playlists...

[giovanni]

Sounds like 'Outlandos' sound at the very beginning, but it evolves in a complete different way. What makes the similarity is the sound of the snare, the early guitar chords and the bass first few notes sound...but just the beginning.
He sings in a very high register, that's another similarity, but I would keep it far far away from a Police-ish comparison.

[drummike]

The performance on SNL was pretty energetic.

[Shangeris]

Today a friend of mine told me to listen to this; he said "This sounds pretty much like a Police song, doesn't it?"

There's a sampler in the video, they might have taken some drum parts from Stewart

[luna_virgo]

The beginning of this sounds kind of Police-ish, but neither of the other two singles I've heard from him sound anything like them.

[HalcyonLisa]

oh crikey I didn't see this, many apologies and great minds think alike and all that.....

[TheEqualizer]

Apparently Sting will be performing with Bruno at the Grammys this weekend. Rhianna will also be joining them.

[lancaster]

I don't get any Police vibes at all. It's a simple backbeat with nothing special to it. The voice is high pitched, yes but, so? I don't know

[TheEqualizer]

Comments by Bruno Mars on the Policeyiness of the song:

http://ca.music.yahoo.com/blogs/sound-c ... 50045.html

Bruno Mars admits to channelling The Police in his new song ‘Locked Out of Heaven’
By Grace Stanisci | Sound Check – Thu, 18 Oct, 2012 2:45 PM EDT

Since the debut of Bruno Mars' new track, "Locked Out Heaven," some critics have claimed it sounds remarkably similar to the music of English reggae/rock band the Police. Now, the 27-year-old musician is confirming that writing songs that resemble those of the classic group is something that he aspires to.
"Hell yeah! You try to write a Police song!" Mars said in an interview with MTV. "I grew up listening to The Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs ... I remember performing a song like 'Roxanne,' and you play those first couple of chords, and you hit that first note, and you watch the whole bar ignite. And as an artist, as a songwriter, it's like 'Man, I want to write a song that makes people's eyes explode the first chord!'"

Giving the track a rating of 3.5 stars out of 5, Rolling Stone picked up on the Police-esque vibe in "Locked Out of Heaven."
"The song is about unbridled passion, but as usual with Mars, the aesthetic is tidy and impeccable, pop songcraft polished to a high-gloss gleam: jittery Police-esque rock-reggae verses that erupt, amid thunder-boom synths, into a steamrolling four-on-the-floor chorus," wrote Rolling Stone's Jody Rosen.

The Los Angeles Times were also reminded of the Sting-fronted band, writing in their review of the track, "It's a lean, bouncy soul-rock cut that quickly mushrooms into a dramatic synth-pop epic -- think the Police (circa 'Ghost in the Machine') infiltrating the Human League."

Mars doesn't seem to be the least bit bothered by the continued comparisons, although he notes to MTV that he is only trying to sound like himself.
"I don't think it initially tried to sound like anybody else, but I picked up the guitar and just started playing [the song's opening chords]," the "Grenade" hitmaker said. "That's how it normally works; I'll pick up a guitar and I'll start humming a melody, and I started singing that, and I was up there in Sting-ville, in that register, so that's what you get ... I tend to listen to a lot of guys with higher registers — Sting being one of them, Freddie Mercury, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder — because I've got a high voice."

[lancaster]

Rock-reggae?
Ghost in the machine?

[Kim]

I hear the similarities, but I'm not feeling it like I feel the Police. I'm curious to hear/see how the Grammy performance goes. It could be really good or really bad. I have an open mind but I'm skeptical. When it comes to Sting, I expect fireworks, because I know he has it in him. If he can't "bring it", he should stay home, so he doesn't embarrass himself (or us!).

[policefan]

I liked that performance @ The Grammy.