★★★★★
Few things are more humiliating for a music critic than giving a good review to someone like Bruno Mars. Still, it's hard to deny the guy's amazing ability to write a hook. If he weren't trying so hard to prove something on this follow-up to the wildly successful Doo-Wops & Hooligans, we might even have given it 4Ns, but his desperation to be taken seriously saves us from that shame. The biggest problem is the album's tired genre-hopping jukebox concept...
- nowtoronto.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDDownload as MP3Bruno MarsUnorthodox JukeboxATLANTIC2012 Tell us what you think: Rate and review this album But not too unorthodox, obviously...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2013-01-03
★★★★★
Few things are more humiliating for a music critic than giving a good review to someone like Bruno Mars. Still, it's hard to deny the guy's amazing ability to write a hook. If he weren't trying so hard to prove something on this follow-up to the wildly successful Doo-Wops & Hooligans, we might even have given it 4Ns, but his desperation to be taken seriously saves us from that shame.
The biggest problem is the album's tired genre-hopping jukebox concept...
- www.nowtoronto.com
2012-12-21
★★★★★
Release Date: December 6th, 2012 About three years ago, I bought a copy of Travie McCoy's (who is the frontman of Gym Class Heroes) solo record Lazarus. The record itself was rather mediocre, but the lead single of the song "Billionare" was a very catchy tune and it featured a singer by the name of Bruno Mars, who provided the hook, and as I found out later, helped to write the song itself. It's a very catchy song, and personally, it was one of my favorites on the record...
- absolutepunk.net
2012-12-18
★★★★★
To the rest of the world, Bruno Mars is as harmless as a puppy in a fedora, an old-fashioned entertainer welcome at any mother's dinner table. Mars apparently doesn't see himself that way, though. On his sophomore album, Unorthodox Jukebox, the baby-faced singer unleashes his inner bad boy, losing his mind over girls of a questionable age on "Young Girls," blowing his royalties at the strip club on "Money Make Her Smile," and, on the pelvic-thrust rocker "Gorilla," fucking like an animal...
- www.avclub.com
2012-12-18
★★★★★
Bruno Mars makes people a little crazy, on both sides of the issue. His fans have tended to gush about his old-school skills: the extravagantly hooky choruses, the impossibly angelic voice, the big, wide-open heart and puppy-dog devotion displayed on other people's songs and his own hits from Doo-Wops and Hooligans...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-12-12
★★★★★
The path less traveled makes all the difference.
Bruno Mars makes people a little crazy, on both sides of the issue. His fans have tended to gush about his old-school skills: the extravagantly hooky choruses, the impossibly angelic voice, the big, wide-open heart and puppy-dog devotion displayed on other people's songs and his own hits from Doo-Wops and Hooligans...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-12-12
★★★★★
At first, Bruno Mars seemed an unlikely pop star. There he was, suddenly, in the summer of 2010: a pint-sized, fedora-wearing, ex-Elvis impersonator born Peter Hernandez, his stage name partially derived from an Italian wrestler known for his smothering bear-hug. He started as a successful songwriter with the absurdly named three-man production team the Smeezingtons (the brains behind Cee Lo's "Fuck You"), but found mainstream solo success thanks to a pair of hook-slinging guest-vocal spots on...
- www.spin.com
2012-12-12
★★★★★
Sounds like Bruno Mars is trying to rough up his image a bit on his strong, if sometimes oddly lyrically aggressive, second album.
The affable, unabashed romantic crooner of "Grenade" and "Just the Way You Are" remains in tunes like the gorgeous, regret-filled piano ballad "When I Was Your Man" and the retro-soul closer "If I Knew."
The lover of low-rent reggae jams returns in the breezy "Show Me...
- www.bostonglobe.com
2012-12-12