{"id":864594,"date":"2026-08-22T17:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T17:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/864594\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T17:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T17:16:15","slug":"bruno-mars-is-the-greatest-showman-alive-on-the-romantic-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/864594\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruno Mars Is the Greatest Showman Alive on The Romantic Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBruno Mars<\/a> tears off his jacket in Hulk-like fashion, gets hit by the ghost of Tito Puente, and takes to the congas for \u201cCha Cha.\u201d The crowd could feel him connecting directly with his Puerto Rican father, Peter Hernandez, a salsa percussionist from Brooklyn. It was a moment in a concert full of them.<\/p>\n

\n\tFriday night at a sold-out MetLife Stadium, the first of four nights on The Romantic Tour<\/a>, Mars didn\u2019t just deliver a love letter to Black and Latin music, he cemented his place as this generation\u2019s greatest showman.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe nearly two-hour set opened with a clip of Mars kneeling in a Mexican-style church, praying for everyone\u2019s safety and a show they\u2019d never forget. The man who\u2019s been training for this since he was a 4-year-old Elvis impersonator delivered. Dressed in a bright red charro suit with two perfectly placed gold chains, he opened with \u201cRisk It All,\u201d a bolero that set the tone for a night built entirely around love.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re celebrating love tonight,\u201d he told the crowd, a sea of fans in \u201c24K Magic\u201d silk short suits, red bandanas, and a few dressed in wedding attire inspired by the \u201cRisk It All\u201d video. From there, pinkies hit the sky for \u201c24K Magic\u201d before his perfectly crafted \u201cTreasure\u201d put the synchronized choreography of The Hooligans on full display. It\u2019s Motown-worthy.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere\u2019s what separates Mars from every other stadium act working today: He doesn\u2019t save the spectacle for the finale. Fireworks, pyrotechnics, and confetti erupted throughout. On \u201cJust Might,\u201d every hip thrust drew swoons. On \u201cPerm,\u201d draped in a James Brown-style cape reading \u201cThe Romantic\u201d across the back, every pimp step landed with ohhs and ahhs as Mars and his crew delivered their finest Commodores impression.<\/p>\n

\n\tThen, naturally, a vintage cherry-red Cadillac rolled onto the stage. \u201cI see this car and it gets me in my feelings,\u201d he said. \u201cWe used to take this to the park and sing all our favorite slow jams.\u201d A cover of Marvin Gaye\u2019s \u201cLet\u2019s Get It On\u201d melted into \u201cThat\u2019s What I Like.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSomething Serious\u201d was the night\u2019s crown jewel, a full celebration of Latin music that felt like the Latin Grammys. It opened with Willie Col\u00f3n and H\u00e9ctor Lavoe\u2019s \u201cLa Murga,\u201d wove in riffs from \u201cLa Bamba\u201d and \u201cLa Pulga,\u201d and closed with a Santana-like guitar solo felt in the heavens.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe transitioned seamlessly into his Silk Sonic<\/a> set with Anderson .Paak, introduced by funk god Bootsy Collins. Dressed in all black, the two ran through \u201c777,\u201d \u201cFly As Me,\u201d and \u201cSmokin Out the Window\u201d with immaculate synergy down to the finger snapping. On \u201cLeave the Door Open,\u201d they traded solos laced with New York slang, \u201cBing Bong\u201d and all.<\/p>\n

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\n\tAfter Paak\u2019s exit, Mars went deep into his catalog with \u201cMarry You,\u201d \u201cIt Will Rain,\u201d \u201cDie With a Smile,\u201d before \u201cWhen I Was Your Man\u201d left young men and women visibly weeping in the stands. He closed with \u201cLocked Out of Heaven,\u201d a five-alarm \u201cUptown Funk,\u201d and \u201cDance With Me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBruno Mars is a music chameleon. With The Romantic Tour, he\u2019s proved what his truest fans always knew, that stadium-size energy has always lived in him, reaching every seat, every row, every heart in the building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruno Mars tears off his jacket in Hulk-like fashion, gets hit by the ghost of Tito Puente, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,39700,134,136,400490],"class_list":["post-864594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bruno-mars","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-silk-sonic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}