Bruno Mars: 24K Magic review – blinged-up funk

(Atlantic)
Bruno Mars charms his way through these opulently produced 90s-style R&B tunesBy any metric, Uptown Funk – Bruno Mars’s 2014 collaboration with Mark Ronson – is a brutally tough act to follow. Even if the song’s ongoing copyright cases prove expensive, this sharp funk throwback remains a record-breaking bestseller, an accolade with enhanced swag in a sales-poor era. The second most famous American to have grown up in Hawaii is also trying to equal or better