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Doo-Wops & Hooligans is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars, released on October 4, 2010. Mars' writing and production team The Smeezingtons were credited with writing all songs and serve as the album's executive producers. Doo-Wops & Hooligans charted at number three on the Billboard 200 and in the top ten in Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand. Its title refers to doo-wop music and was chosen to reflect simplicity, as well as appeal to both males and females.

The usage of a wide variety of influences was noted by critics, with musical comparisons made to Michael Jackson and Jason Mraz. Many praised the songs' catchy nature, as well as their carefree lyrics. Two digital singles—"Liquor Store Blues" featuring Damian Marley and "Grenade"—were released to promote the album. Lead single "Just the Way You Are" was released on July 19, 2010 and topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four consecutive weeks, going on to become an international top ten hit. "Grenade" was later announced as the second single, and has charted in the top ten in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, as well as becoming his second consecutive number one in the US and UK. A US headlining tour accompanies the album, and ran from November to December 2010.

Background and development

The release of Doo-Wops & Hooligans was announced in a press release on August 25, 2010, following the release of Mars' debut extended play (EP), It's Better If You Don't Understand, earlier in the year.[1] Speaking to MTV News, Mars said the EP gave a "nice effect of what's in store" for the album.[2] The album cover was officially released on August 30, 2010.[3] The official track listing was revealed by Atlantic Records on September 9, 2010.[4] Three of the four songs from It's Better If You Don't Understand are included on the album.[5]

On the title of the album, Mars said, "'Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music... Plus doo wop songs come from a time back in the day when there were no TRICKS! You just needed a beautiful melody, you needed a beautiful voice, and you needed to CONNECT!... So the 'doo-wop' part is for the women!"[6]... But then because, on this album, I have records that women are going to relate to and men are going to relate to, the doo-wops are for the girls and hooligans are for the guys."[7] In addition, he told 4Music, "It explains the two sides of me. Doo-wop is a special form of music I grew up on. It's straight to the point, very simple. I have songs like that. ... I have that simple, romantic side of me but I'm also just a young, regular dude and that's like the hooligan side!"[8]

Composition and influences

Doo-Wops and Hooligans was noted for its diverse variety of influences, with elements of pop,[9] rock,[9] reggae,[9] R&B,[10] soul,[11] and hip hop.[12] Mars' sound has drawn comparisons to Michael Jackson[10][13][14][15]—especially the album's "atmospheric" opener "Grenade" to "Dirty Diana"[11][16]—as well as to Jason Mraz.[12][14][17] Other comparisons in style and sound made include "Grenade" to Kanye West[12] and Shakira,[18] "Just the Way You Are" to U2,[12] "Our First Time" to "Boyz II Men"[19] and singer-songwriters D'Angelo,[9] Al B. Sure!,[11] and Sade,[12] "Runaway Baby" to Little Richard,[12] "The Lazy Song" to Sugar Ray,[10] "Marry You" to Coldplay,[12] "Liquor Store Blues" to Bedouin Soundclash,[15] and "Count on Me" to Israel Kamakawiwoʻole.[20]

Lyrically, many tracks have been described as "feel-good", carefree, and optimistic, including love song "Just the Way You Are" ("When you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while"),[21] the friendship song "Count on Me" ("You can count on me like 1 2 3 / I'll be there"),[9][22] and "Marry You", a song singing of a spontaneous marriage idea.[11][23] In addition, "Runaway Baby" is a guitar-driven "snappy retro trip"[9][11] and "The Lazy Song" is described as a "hymn to sloth" and a "surf stoner's anthem" ("I be loungin' on the couch just chillin' in my Snuggie / click to MTV so they can teach me how to Dougie").[13][14][24] On the other hand, darker subjects are addressed in "Grenade", the album's masochistic heartbreak song ("Take a bullet straight through my brain / Yes, I would die for ya baby"),[11][23][25] "Talking to the Moon" ("Talking to the moon... / In hopes you're on the other side"),[11][23] and the reggae track "Liquor Store Blues" ("I'll take one shot for my pain / One drag for my sorrow").[15][17] The experimental collaboration "The Other Side" was frequently noted as the album's highlight, being the most complicated and having the best production.[24][26][27][28]

Singles

Bruno Mars performing in Houston, Texas on November 24, 2010 on The Doo-Wops & Hooligans Tour.

"Just the Way You Are" was released as the album's lead single on July 19, 2010.[29] It has since topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four consecutive weeks, having sold over 2 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and has been certified platinum in both New Zealand and the US.[30][31][32] It has also peaked at the top of the Australian Singles Chart, the Canadian Hot 100, the Dutch Top 40, the Irish Singles Chart, the New Zealand Singles Chart, and the UK Singles Chart, as well as within the top ten in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.[33][34][35][36] The music video was directed by Ethan Lader and was released on September 8, 2010.[4][37] Included on the album is "The Other Side", featuring rappers Cee Lo Green and B.o.B, earlier released as a single from It's Better If You Don't Understand.[38] The accompanying music video was directed by Nick Bilardello and Cameron Duddy, and was released in July 2010.[39][40]

As promotional singles, "Liquor Store Blues" featuring Damian Marley and "Grenade" were released to the iTunes Store on September 21 and September 28, 2010, respectively.[41][42] "Liquor Store Blues" debuted at number ninety-seven on the Canadian Hot 100 for the week of October 1, 2010.[43] Additionally, "The Lazy Song" charted at number eighty-two in the US the week of the album's release.[44] "Grenade" was later decided as the album's second single and has so far topped the charts in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK, and the US.[45][46][47][48] The music video, directed by Nabil, was released November 19, 2010 and features Mars dragging an upright piano through Los Angeles to sing to the girl of his affections, only to find out she is with another man.[49][50] Another song, "Marry You", charted at number twenty-nine in Australia, sixty-six in the UK,[51] eighty-three in Canada and eighty-five in the US.[45][52] "The Lazy Song" was released as the album's third single, and was sent to U.S. mainstream radio on February 15, 2011.[53]

Release and promotion

Doo-Wops & Hooligans saw its premiere on Myspace on September 24 and was released to digital retailers on October 4, then to stores on October 5, 2010.[4][54] A deluxe edition was released that includes two more tracks: a remix of "Just the Way You Are" featuring Lupe Fiasco and "Somewhere in Brooklyn", originally from It's Better If You Don't Understand.[42][55] The deluxe edition also includes the music videos of "Just the Way You Are" and "The Other Side".[55]

Mars premiered several of the album's songs during a performance at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City on August 25, 2010.[56] He appeared as the musical guest for Saturday Night Live on October 9, 2010, alongside host Jane Lynch, and performed "Just the Way You Are", "Nothin' on You", and "Grenade".[57] Along with OneRepublic, Mars promoted the album opening for Maroon 5 on the fall leg of the Hands All Over Tour that began October 6, 2010. He also supported Travie McCoy on his European tour from mid-October through November 2010.[4] Atlantic has allowed the musical television series Glee to cover two songs from the album; "Just the Way You Are" and "Marry You" were performed on "Furt", an episode that aired in November 2010.[49]

iPhone app Tap Tap made a series of game based on the album. It is called Bruno Mars Revenge. It features all 10 hits off the standard version from the album.[58]

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Reception

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic(61/100)[59]
Review scores
SourceRating
About.com[28]
allmusic[27]
BBC Music(unfavorable)[60]
Canadian Online Explorer[61]
Entertainment Weekly(B+)[11]
The New York Times(favorable)[12]
The New Zealand Herald[18]
Rolling Stone[62]
Slant Magazine[20]
The Washington Post(favorable)[14]

Upon its release, Doo-Wops & Hooligans received mixed to positive reviews from most music critics; it was given a normalized rating of 61/100, based on thirteen reviews on the aggregate website Metacritic.[59] Entertainment Weekly's Leah Greenblatt gave the album a B+ rating, praising Mars for his "instant-access melodies" and "sly snatches of dance-floor swagger", but noting weaknesses in songs deviant from his conventional pop and soul genres.[11] Sean Fennessey of The Washington Post gave the album a favorable review, calling it "effortlessly tuneful" and a good start to a "durable career".[14] Rolling Stone's Jody Rosen called the album "the year's finest debut" whose tracks "deliver pleasure without pretension".[62] Jon Caramanica of The New York Times called Doo-Wops & Hooligans a "fantastically polyglot record that shows him to be a careful study across a range of pop songcraft", applauding its diverse range of influences.[12] Darrly Sterdan of CANOE praised Mars' "romantic crooning" that "will have little girls over the moon in short order."[61] and About.com's Bill Lamb called the album "one of the top debut albums of the year".[28]

Tim Sendra of allmusic gave the album a rating of three stars out of five, calling it "an uneven debut ... [that] doesn't tap into his potential as a writer or a producer". Sendra commended the earlier released song "The Other Side" as the highlight of the album, noting, though, that it "points to a direction Mars could have taken with the album but didn't".[27] Eric Henderson writing for Slant Magazine criticized the album, saying it "manages to wear out its welcome about halfway through", calling it an attempt to "please just about everybody."[20] Scott Kara of The New Zealand Herald enjoyed the first two tracks of the album, but noted it could have had more of both titular elements to raise its "potency".[18] Ken Capobianco was disappointed that the album lacked an autobiographical aspect to it, but otherwise praised Mars' delivery.[24]

Commercial performance

In the United States, Doo-Wops & Hooligans debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 for the week of October 13, 2010, selling 55,000 copies.[63] Since then the album has sold 1,090,000 copies in the United States and was also certified Platinum by the RIAA for shipping over a million copies.[64][65] The album debuted the same week on the Canadian Albums Chart at number six, and reached the top of the chart four months later.[66][67] The album peaked at number one in the UK, in the top five in New Zealand and Australia, and number twenty-nine in Ireland.[68][69][70] In 2011, Doo-Wops & Hooligans was certified platinum in New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK.[71][72][73][74]

Debuting at No. 1, Doo-Wops & Hooligans is the first debut album of a foreign artist to reach No. 1 on the German Albums Chart since Lady Gaga's The Fame did so in January 2010.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Grenade"Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine, Brody Brown, Claude Kelly, Andrew WyattThe Smeezingtons3:42
2."Just the Way You Are"Mars, Lawrence, Levine, Khalil Walton, Khari CainThe Smeezingtons, Needlz3:40
3."Our First Time"Mars, Lawrence, Levine, Dwayne Chin-Quee, Mitchum ChinThe Smeezingtons, The Supa Dups4:03
4."Runaway Baby"Mars, Lawrence, Levine, BrownThe Smeezingtons2:27
5."The Lazy Song"Mars, Lawrence, Levine, K'naan , Joy ThomasThe Smeezingtons3:15
6."Marry You"Mars, Lawrence, LevineThe Smeezingtons3:50
7."Talking to the Moon"Mars, Lawrence, Levine, Albert Winkler, Jeff BhaskerThe Smeezingtons3:37
8."Liquor Store Blues" (featuring Damian Marley)Mars, Lawrence, Levine, Chin-Quee, Mitchum Chin, Damian Marley, Thomas PentzThe Smeezingtons, The Supa Dups3:49
9."Count on Me"Mars, Lawrence, LevineThe Smeezingtons3:17
10."The Other Side" (featuring Cee Lo Green and B.o.B)Mars, Lawrence, Levine, Brown, Mike Caren, Patrick Stump, Kaveh Rastegar, John Wicks, Jeremy Ruzumna, Joshua Lopez, Bobby Simmons, Jr.The Smeezingtons3:47
Deluxe Edition bonus tracks[55]
No.TitleLength
11."Just the Way You Are" (Remix featuring Lupe Fiasco)3:58
12."Somewhere in Brooklyn" (EP version)3:01
Japanese bonus tracks[75]
No.TitleLength
11."Just the Way You Are" (Remix featuring Lupe Fiasco)3:58
12."Somewhere in Brooklyn" (EP version)3:01
13."Talking to the Moon" (Acoustic piano version) 
14."Just the Way You Are" (Live) 
15."Grenade" (Live) 
16."The Other Side" (Live) 
European,Brazilian & Indian bonus tracks[76]
No.TitleLength
11."Somewhere in Brooklyn" (EP version)3:01
12."Talking to the Moon" (Acoustic piano version)3:37
Special New Zealand Tour Edition bonus tracks[77]
No.TitleLength
11."Just the Way You Are" (featuring Lupe Fiasco) (Remix) 
12."Somewhere in Brooklyn" 
13."Talking to the Moon" (Acoustic Piano Version) 
14."Just the Way You Are" (Walmart Soundcheck Version) (Live) 
15."Grenade" (Walmart Soundcheck Version) (Live) 
16."The Other Side" (Walmart Soundcheck Version) (Live) 

Samples

Grenade contains samples of I'll Fight by Jeff Tweedy.

Charts and certifications

Credits and personnel

Sources:[89]

Release history

Region Date Label(s) Formats Edition
France[90] October 4, 2010 Warner Music Digital download Standard
United States[54][55] Atlantic, Elektra Standard, Deluxe
Austria[91] October 5, 2010 Warner Music CD Standard
Canada[92]
Mexico[93][94] Digital download Standard, Deluxe
United States[4][95] Atlantic, Elektra CD Standard, Deluxe
New Zealand[96] October 11, 2010 Warner Music Standard
Australia[97] October 15, 2010
United States[98] December 7, 2010 Atlantic, Elektra LP
Germany[99] January 14, 2011 Warner Music CD, LP Standard
Japan[75] January 12, 2011 CD
Denmark[100] January 17, 2011 CD, digital download
United Kingdom[76] Elektra
Brazil[101] February 18, 2011 Warner Music

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