History Music / BrunoMars

* OlderThanTheyLook: Does he look like he's just over 30?

* JustTheWayYouAre: "Just the Way You Are", obviously. To our younger tropers, Mars's song is not the Trope Namer; that would be Music/BillyJoel's [[NamesTheSame song of the same name]].

* RefrainFromAssuming:
** "When I Was Your Man" has a handful of phrases in the chorus that one could see it as, but the title is not said until the very end of the song.
** "Uptown Funk" is not "Don't Believe Me Just Watch". Although the latter phrase is not said more (in the radio edit they are both said 18 times, in the album/single version the former is said 30), it is probably the phrase you will remember more in the long run.

[[caption-width-right:300:[[WaxingLyrical He'll catch a grenade for you and uptown funk you up just the way you are, if you let him treasure you, 'cause you make him feel like he's been locked out of Heaven.]]]]

* NiceHat: Frequently sports a fedora. Later a cap with "XXIV", roman numerals for 24, for ''24k Magic''.

* GenreThrowback: One of his specialties. "Treasure" is a throwback to disco, "Locked Out of Heaven" is explicitly an {{Homage}} to Music/ThePolice, "Gorilla" is an emulation of {{Music/Prince}}, and his guest spot on Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk" is a throwback to, well, '70s-style funk. Everything in ''24K Magic'' ranges from Music/JamesBrown influenced funk to NewJackSwing and late 90s/early 2000s Hip Hop and R&B.

* AdultFear: "Grenade" is a song about an abusive relationship that implicitly ends in the victim committing suicide.

* BadassBoast / BoastfulRap:

* ExpectingSomeoneTaller[=/=]FunSize: He's only 5'5".
** PintSizedPowerhouse: His short stature belies his loud, powerful singing voice.

Peter Gene Hernandez (born October 8, 1985), better known as [[StageNames Bruno Mars]], is an American pop/R&B singer/songwriter noted for his throwbacks to various pop music genres. After bursting onto the scene with his song "Nothin' on You" (2010) with the rapper Music/BoB and the song "Billionaire" (2010) with Music/GymClassHeroes frontman Travie [=McCoy=], he rose in stature to one of the most popular artists of the [=2010s=].

On February 25, 2021, after a 4-year hiatus since his album ''24K Magic'', he and Anderson .Paak [[https://twitter.com/BrunoMars/status/1365150996838555648 announced that they are forming a superduo]] named Silk Sonic. Their first album is releasing in January 2022, with their first song, "Leave the Door Open", released on March 5, 2021. In a surprise, their first album, ''An Evening With Silk Sonic'', came out on Nov.12 due to fan demand.

* AnalogyBackfire: "Gorilla". As WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows notes, [[TeenyWeenie a gorilla's penis is only an inch and a half long.]]

On February 25, 2021, after a 4-year hiatus since his album ''24K Magic'', he and Anderson .Paak [[https://twitter.com/BrunoMars/status/1365150996838555648 announced that they are forming a superduo]] named Silk Sonic. Their first album is releasing in January 2022, with their first song, "Leave the Door Open", released on March 5, 2021. In a surprise, their first album, An Evening With Silk Sonic, came out on Nov.12 due to fan demand.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys:
** The video for "The Lazy Song" has dancers in monkey suits.
** There's a gorilla on the cover of the ''Unorthodox Jukebox'' cover, and of course the actual song "Gorilla" on the same.

On February 25, 2021, after a 4-year hiatus since his album ''24K Magic'', he and Anderson .Paak [[https://twitter.com/BrunoMars/status/1365150996838555648 announced that they are forming a superduo]] named Silk Sonic. Their first album is releasing in January 2022, with their first song, "Leave the Door Open", released on March 5, 2021.

* ''An Evening with Silk Sonic'' (2022)

--> Singles: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adLGHcj_fmA "Leave the Door Open"]], “Skate”.

Peter Gene Hernandez (born October 8, 1985), better known as [[StageNames Bruno Mars]], is an American pop/R&B singer/songwriter noted for his throwbacks to various pop music genres. After bursting onto the scene with his song "Nothin' on You" (2010) with the rapper Music/BoB and the song "Billionaire" (2010) with Music/GymClassHeroes frontman Travie [=McCoy=], he has become a very popular artist. He has won ten awards, and has been nominated for 65. His debut album has sold over two million copies and has been certified double-platinum in the USA. His song "Uptown Funk!", a collaboration with British DJ Mark Ronson, is one of the best-selling songs of all time. He also performed at UsefulNotes/SuperBowl XLVIII and 50. He is a member of the production trio called The Smeezingtons, who have produced his own songs as well as for others.

On February 25, 2021, after a 4-year hiatus since ''24K Magic'', he and Anderson .Paak [[https://twitter.com/BrunoMars/status/1365150996838555648 announced that they are forming a superduo]] named Silk Sonic. Their first album is releasing in January 2022, with their first song, "Leave the Door Open", released on March 5, 2021.

[[caption-width-right:300:[[WaxingLyrical He'll catch a grenade for you and uptown funk you up just the way you are, if you let him treasure you, 'cause you make him feel like he's been locked out of Heaven.]]]]

* MixedAncestry: He's half-Filipino (with some distant Spanish ancestry), quarter-Ashkenazi Jewish, and quarter-Puerto Rican.

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Averted in "Grenade".

* DrowningMySorrows: "Liquor Store Blues".

* TheSlacker: In "The Lazy Song".
* SomethingBlues: "Liquor Store Blues".

Peter Gene Hernandez (born October 8, 1985), better known as [[StageNames Bruno Mars]], is an American pop/R&B singer/songwriter. After bursting onto the scene with his song "Nothin' on You" (2010) with the rapper Music/BoB and the song "Billionaire" (2010) with Music/GymClassHeroes frontman Travie [=McCoy=], he has become a very popular artist. He has won ten awards, and has been nominated for 65. His debut album has sold over two million copies and has been certified double-platinum in the USA. His song "Uptown Funk!", a collaboration with British DJ Mark Ronson, is one of the best-selling songs of all time. He also performed at UsefulNotes/SuperBowl XLVIII and 50. He is a member of the production trio called The Smeezingtons, who have produced his own songs as well as for others.

Bruno Mars (born Peter Gene Hernandez on October 8, 1985) is an American pop/R&B singer/songwriter. After bursting onto the scene with his song "Nothin' on You" (2010) with the rapper Music/BoB and the song "Billionaire" (2010) with Music/GymClassHeroes frontman Travie [=McCoy=], he has become a very popular artist. He has won ten awards, and has been nominated for 65. His debut album has sold over two million copies and has been certified double-platinum in the USA. His song "Uptown Funk!", a collaboration with British DJ Mark Ronson, is one of the best-selling songs of all time. He also performed at UsefulNotes/SuperBowl XLVIII and 50. He is a member of the production trio called The Smeezingtons, who have produced his own songs as well as for others.

[[caption-width-right:300:[[IncrediblyLamePun He'll catch a grenade for you and uptown funk you up just the way you are, if you let him treasure you, 'cause you make him feel like he's been locked out of Heaven.]]]]

On February 25, 2021, after a 4-year hiatus since ''24K Magic'', he and Anderson .Paak [[https://twitter.com/BrunoMars/status/1365150996838555648 announced that they are forming a superduo]] named Silk Sonic and their first album is releasing in 2021 with their first song, "Leave the Door Open", released on March 5, 2021.

* ''An Evening with Silk Sonic'' (2021)

--> Singles: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adLGHcj_fmA "Leave the Door Open"]].

On February 25, 2021, after a 4-year hiatus since ''24K Magic'', he and Anderson .Paak [[https://twitter.com/BrunoMars/status/1365150996838555648 announced that they are forming a duo]] named Silk Sonic and their first album is releasing in 2021 with their first song, "Leave the Door Open", released on March 5, 2021.