{"id":229733,"date":"2026-01-09T20:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/229733\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T20:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:59:09","slug":"bruno-mars-i-just-might-track-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/229733\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruno Mars: \u201cI Just Might\u201d Track Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s an Onion joke from the \u201990s that still makes me chuckle when I think of the headline: \u201cNational Funk Congress Deadlocked on Get Up\/Get Down Issue<\/a>,\u201d in which Majority Leader James Brown<\/a> and Minority Leader Bootsy Collins<\/a> try to settle it once and for all. Back then, West Coast rap was rearing G-funk and Jamiroquai<\/a> ruled the UK charts. These days, a good old-fashioned call to the dancefloor comes not from funk\u2019s prot\u00e9g\u00e9s, but pop queens atop disco horses<\/a> and lingerie pyramids<\/a>\u2014that is, until they inevitably must cede the floor to Bruno Mars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On \u201cI Just Might,\u201d the lead single from his first new solo album<\/a> in a decade, he casts his ballot: \u201cYou gotta get down.\u201d For Mars, it\u2019s less about the direction than the impulse itself: \u201cIt would break my heart\/If I find out you can\u2019t move.\u201d After an off-mic count-in, he takes it upon himself to get the masses moving with retro handclaps, crisp trumpets, and a perky bassline that shuffles between easygoing drums. Of course Mars, a lifelong attendee of soul camp, adds two wordless hooks for good measure: the first, a \u201cdoot-doot\u201d melody that descends the scale like it\u2019s twirling down a spiral staircase; the second, a passionate three-note delivery of \u201coh\u2019s\u201d not unlike those in Junior Senior<\/a>\u2019s aughts hit \u201cMove Your Feet<\/a>.\u201d Although Mars\u2019 belting occasionally passes for Anderson .Paak<\/a>\u2019s croon\u2014flirtacious and poured from a wide, toothy smile\u2014like a faded tattoo from their Silk Sonic days<\/a>, he delivers the type of chart-topping boogie that\u2019s quintessentially him. He\u2019ll be luring you to the wedding dancefloor whether you like it or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s an Onion joke from the \u201990s that still makes me chuckle when I think of the headline:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409,5710,5101],"class_list":["post-229733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-tracks","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}