{"id":398540,"date":"2026-01-09T15:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/398540\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T15:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:15:08","slug":"bruno-mars-returns-with-retro-new-single-i-just-might-its-party-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/398540\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruno Mars returns with retro new single ‘I Just Might’: “It\u2019s party time!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bruno Mars<\/a> has returned with a brand-new single, \u2018I Just Might\u2019 \u2013 you can listen to it below.<\/p>\n

The song is the first preview of the US singer-songwriter and producer\u2019s fourth solo album, \u2018The Romantic\u2019<\/a>, which is released on Friday February 27. Pre-order\/pre-save here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou stepped inside with a vibe I ain\u2019t never seen\/ Yes you did, ooh\/ Girl if you talk like you walk, come and talk to me,\u201d Mars sings on the retro, funk-laced track.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut look here\/ It would break my heart, break my heart, break my heart if I find out you can\u2019t move\/ You better show me now, show me now, show me now \/ \u2018Cause when I take you to the floor, ooh you gotta get down\/ You know what to do\/ Hey Mr DJ\/ Play a song for this pretty little lady.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018I Just Might\u2019 is accompanied by a \u201970s-inspired music video, where five versions of Mars make up a live band, performing on an old-school TV set. He also dances under some multi-coloured lights in the visuals, directed by himself and Daniel Ramos.<\/p>\n

Writing on social media upon his return, Mars said: \u201cIt\u2019s party time! The self proclaimed Aura Lord is back.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u2018I Just Might\u2019 was co-produced by Mars and D\u2019Mile \u2013 the latter of whom worked on the songwriter\u2019s 2021 record with Anderson .Paak<\/a> as Silk Sonic<\/a>, \u2018An Evening With Silk Sonic\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since releasing the collaborative project, Mars has teamed up with Lady Gaga on the hit ballad \u2018Die With A Smile\u2019<\/a>, worked with\u00a0BLACKPINK\u2019s Ros\u00e9 on the huge joint track \u2018APT.\u2019<\/a>, and\u00a0featured on Sexyy Red\u2019s single \u2018Fat Juicy & Wet\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Romantic\u2019 serves as the long-awaited follow-up to Mars\u2019 multi-Grammy<\/a>-winning solo album \u201924K Magic\u2019<\/a>, which arrived in 2016.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Mars joined Eddie Vedder,\u00a0Slash,\u00a0Yungblud, Anthony Kiedis and more to cover some rock classics at a lavish corporate Christmas party in New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In other news,\u00a0the singer recently revealed that he was close to scrapping his hit\u00a0Lady Gaga\u00a0collab \u2018Die With A Smile\u2019<\/a>, but changed his mind after learning that she was working on\u00a0Joker: Folie \u00e0 Deux<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ros\u00e9 and Mars\u2019 \u2018APT.\u2019 was named as one of TikTok\u2019s top 20 global songs of 2025<\/a> last month. The track had previously landed at Number 14 on NME\u2018s 50 best songs of 2024 list<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0a four-star review of \u201924K Magic\u2019<\/a>,\u00a0NME called the LP \u201chalf an hour of party tunes that sound like the best bits of \u201990s R&B\u201d. It added: \u201cFew albums designed to sound like a party actually play like one, but Bruno Mars has pulled it off with style.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruno Mars has returned with a brand-new single, \u2018I Just Might\u2019 \u2013 you can listen to it below.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,168320,341,2742,2743,37879],"class_list":["post-398540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-funk","tag-music","tag-pop","tag-rb","tag-soul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}