Bruno Mars finally released his third album 24K Magic. The 9-track project is produced almost entirely by Shampoo Press & Curl—with some additional work by The Stereotypes—and includes his previously-released singles “24K Magic” and “Versace on the Floor.” It’s his first album in four years, following 2012’s Unorthodox Jukebox.
“With this album, I wanted to make a movie,” he told Zane Lowe during a recent interview on Zane’s Beats 1 Radio show. “A real movie. I told myself, ‘We’re gonna have a screenplay and we’re gonna go to that.‘”
He discussed his apprehension about releasing new music after scoring a huge hit with “Uptown Funk” in a recent Rolling Stone interview. “Coming off the biggest song of my career, it was super-daunting to come in [the studio],” he said. “I don’t know if people are going to love this shit… I don’t know if radio is going to play it. But what I don’t want to have happen is I put it out and say, ‘Damn it, if I’d just done this and this, maybe it would have had a shot.’”