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Bruno mars new song 🤮 can I block from Spotify??

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Roxieandthegang · 27/01/2025 15:43

Has anyone heard this song
I heard it other other day and was so so shocked by the lyrics I nearly had a heart attack 😂
Why do mainstream artists bring out utter filth like this. I really don’t like my kids (teenage) hearing this garbage….ive listened to some garbage in my time but it’s another level and is shocking to me coming from such a popular artist.
I know everyone will be like well they will hear it on YouTube/tiktok…..but I’d really like it not to be coming up on Spotify which they listen to alot 🫣

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Alltheyearround · 27/01/2025 19:28

Well, despite the song being a load of old cobblers, this thread has cheered me up no end.

Wanders off humming I'm a little Teapot.....

ZebedeeDougalFlorence · 27/01/2025 19:29

TheBoots · 27/01/2025 17:45

Take it none of you remember WAP by Cardi B, or My Neck, My Back by Khia (from 2002!!) then...

I wish I wasn't so nosey. I looked up the lyrics for My Neck, My Back and wish I hadn't. Some of the practices mentioned in this one are positively unhygienic with the man being told to lick her from the crack to the front. Basic hygiene forbids this practice. Yeuck!

Wavescrashingonthebeach · 27/01/2025 19:32

I think I've just thrown up a little in my mouth. What a disgusting song.
Sadly it's nothing new. When I was a teenager the famous raunchy ones were "my neck, my back, lick my py and my crack" and "face down ass up that's the way we like to f". It's proper grim thinking back on it now.
And even before that in the 90's The Outhere Brothers had some grim lyrics too.
To be fair though those lyrics just read like the audio description of a p0rno. Vile.
On a lighter note, the funny versions people have done here are funny. I'm not going to contaminate my beloved nursery rhymes though.
Think I'm gonna get the Men In Black dudes to come and erase this Bruno Mars song from my memory!

HeBeaverandSheBeaver · 27/01/2025 19:34

Christ on a bike, I was commenting to dh after watching a Beatles documentary about how parents in the sixties that were shocked at lyrics for "I wanna hold your hand" would have a heart attack on the spot after hearing some of the lyrics these days. But that truly proves my point!!!

longtompot · 27/01/2025 19:35

Looked it up thinking how bad can it be! I am now tightly clutching my pearls!😳

Choccyscofffy · 27/01/2025 19:36

I’ve not been able to listen to Bruno Mars ever since ex boyfriend who tried to woo me with Just The Way You Are turned out to be a massive twat. 🤮

User7288339 · 27/01/2025 19:37

What’s happened to you Bruno? Are you the same nice guy that did “you can count on me”?!

Ger1atricMillennial · 27/01/2025 19:38

Ah.. rage bait, the best marketing.

It will be good in a club after a few, maybe not humming at work though.

I don't think the lyrics are particually good, I could probably write that after a couple of tequilas tbh.

HPandthelastwish · 27/01/2025 19:38

I thought you were being a bit OTT until I looked at the lyrics.

The thing is society is meant to have changed since the last load of dodgy songs. The Me Too movement, youd think with the P Diddy issues someone like Bruno Mars would be staying well out of that world andnot releasing anything too controversial. Of course maybe that's the point,how much publicity has this generated.

Sweetpeasaremadeforbees · 27/01/2025 19:42

Have I been doing sex wrong? What is the purpose of forehead titties?

Makes me think of that episode of Blackadder where they have a party wearing false tits on their head.

Throw my legs back, eat my booty from the front
And what does this mean, it sounds like a yoga move?

Oh it's all just pathetic and desperate really isn't it.

Firefly1987 · 27/01/2025 19:42

I'm on Bruno's mailing list so I got the link the other day and the title was enough to not listen (first time that's happened with one of his songs) and looks like it turned out to be even worse than I was imagining, ugh. Even my nearly 80-year old mum's a fan (of his earlier stuff anyway), I'll be doing my best to make sure she never hears it! Not much shocks me but this is grim.

septumring99 · 27/01/2025 19:46

Well firstly, I didn't say "so what do you expect?" I also don't think it's vile and nasty just for being an explicit song about sex. It's not violent, it's not racist, it's not misogynistic, it's not glorifying criminal behaviour or drug use. People have compared it on this thread to Blurred Lines, but that misses a major point of the critique surrounding that song- most people weren't upset that it was about sex, people were angry that it dismissed the concept of consent.

I didn't specify which Sabrina Carpenter song I was referencing when discussing her explicit lyrics, my mistake, but I wasn't thinking of Please Please Please and instead "Juno," which has the line "I'm so fucking horny" in the bridge in a song mentioning "fuzzy pink handcuffs" and "freaky positions." The comparisons that best fit in my mind are those already mentioned by previous posters, songs like My Neck, My Back or WAP. I'm not sure "who the fuck," as you say, wants to hear these sorts of lyrics, but they must exist! Because artists keep writing and producing such songs, and people keep listening! Hell, even Mozart wrote a piece called Lech mich im Arsch- it's not too hard to figure out what that one means in English.

I think adult music has its place. I think explicit music about sex has its place. That place isn't in my playlists, or on the radio, but on a streaming service which acts as a catalogue for pretty much any song under the sun? Yeah, fair enough. As I said, it's marked and warned, anyone with explicit content blocked won't come across it by chance.

And, once again, Bruno Mars, along with every other artist, is allowed to write songs for different demographics! He's mainstream, yes, but his music has always been aimed at adults even if children enjoy some of the hits. Unless people think singing about cocaine, making love "like gorillas" and having sex so loud that "the neighbours call the cops" was family friendly- he's been writing explicit music since at least 2012! This one won't be uncensored on the pre-watershed radio, or Now! That's What I Call Music, or anywhere else explicit music is specifically excluded. Those spaces should remain safe and family friendly, and such spaces should continue to be created and maintained, but that doesn't mean people shouldn't be able to make and access art outside of that.

This song may not be my cup of tea, or yours, but judging by the amount of views and streams it must appeal to some people and those people have as much right to hear it as the musicians have to make it.

Firefly1987 · 27/01/2025 19:58

Pleasantly surprised to see nearly everyone on youtube panning it as well, genuinely expected everyone to be like "awesome song Bruno" 😆but no even his stans think he's gone too far.

Lonelycrab · 27/01/2025 20:00

@septumring99 A lot of the posters here will have heard it on YouTube, contributing to view count. Doesn’t mean they like it.

If you look at the comments, vast majority say 🤮 what tf is this shite

BertieBotts · 27/01/2025 20:01

Sorry, but his songs have been gross for ages.

Locked Out Of Heaven is about him pestering an unwilling woman for sex because he thinks he is entitled to it because he likes the way it makes him feel. MOVE ON.

Grenade is about him whining that he promises to do all kinds of unrealistic, will never be asked things ever (but he promissssed) but she won't even have sex with him, and he thinks this is unfair. When she probably never asked him to be a bloody grenade shield in the first place, she probably just wanted him to do the fucking washing up.

When I was Your Man is some fair self-reflection but still him self-reflecting on what a shit boyfriend he was. How unattractive.

Lazy Song has two references to him wandering around with his dong out (no thanks)

Runaway Baby I didn't know but WTF at the lyrics - at best it's about him being a player, at worst it's about him being a creepy rapist. Hmm

Totallymessed · 27/01/2025 20:02

I just read the lyrics and I don't think they're that bad- just about enjoying sex? Despite me being a middle aged prude generally. At least there isn't any talking about violence, anal sex or suggestions of non-consent. Maybe my expectations have just got very low!

greengreyblue · 27/01/2025 20:02

He’s had a few dodgy lyrics in the past:
The Lazy Somg- he talks of sitting at home with his hand down his pants!
‘The heat between your thighs’ is another lyric and ‘ I just wanna make you high’ or some other shit . It’s all the guy can think about.

ThatRareUmberJoker · 27/01/2025 20:03

Alltheyearround · 27/01/2025 19:14

Agree.

Bum, Willie, Bum, Bum, Willie!

(that's my chorus but the verses will be similar in tone)

Do I get a record contract now?

It'll be a hit go on Britain's Got Talent it's a winner 🌟

WinterBones · 27/01/2025 20:04

ShowAndGo · 27/01/2025 15:52

If Radio 1 has to bleep this to make it radio friendly, it's going to sound as if it's written in Morse code.

i thought that about the recent track by Eminem and the current one by Doechii

Shodan · 27/01/2025 20:09

I belong to a certain nationwide choir who are known for covering rock and pop songs (Shake It Off being a particular low point.)

I really, really hope they don't cover this one. 😳

EleanorRavenclaw · 27/01/2025 20:10

Wow it’s awful. Sounds like it was written by Jay from the Inbetweeners.

Charliecatpaws · 27/01/2025 20:11

EleanorRavenclaw · 27/01/2025 20:10

Wow it’s awful. Sounds like it was written by Jay from the Inbetweeners.

Hmm
penguinta · 27/01/2025 20:11

It’s a Sexyy Red song, this is her forte

Newfoundzestforlife · 27/01/2025 20:12

greengreyblue · 27/01/2025 18:59

This. It’s the same with Michael Jackson, I turn the radio off if he comes in. Just can’t get past what he did.

Absolutely! Ditto with wacko Jacko....🤢🤮

SassK · 27/01/2025 20:15

I just watched it on youtube. Surely it's a piss take though, they're having a gross out laugh? It's absolute cringe (I did laugh at it tbf 😂).