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Who Wants A.I. Music When We Have Bruno Mars?
Our critic Jon Caramanica on the graceful pop sound of Bruno Mars’s new single.
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‘Trigger for those who dance pretty much as good as you look proper now, I simply may, I simply may make her my child. I simply may make her my child, hey. I simply may — what? What? If it’s not clear from behind me, automobile’s within the store. What are you going to do? Earlier than the vacation, we have been speaking quite a bit about A.I. music. After which once I was listening to the brand new Bruno Mars music, all I might take into consideration was A.I. It’s known as “I Simply May.” It’s a wealthy and lustrous homage to the soul pop of the early Nineteen Seventies. Clearly, you’re fascinated with the Jackson 5. It’s gloss. It’s note-perfect. It feels like a reminiscence of a factor you’re fairly certain you listened to again within the day, and but it purports to be new. I ought to say, I really like Bruno Mars. I feel he’s extremely gifted. However once I hear A.I. music, I’m listening to lots of the similar issues. You’re not listening to any roughness. All you’re listening to is pure pop perfection. Cadence, rhythm, inflection, texture, temper. As we start to get suffocated by A.I. music that’s designed to be pinpoint-precise to an previous sound, an previous type, previous concept, it’s important to ask your self if we actually want that after we have already got Bruno Mars.

By Jon Caramanica, Arjun Srivatsa and Joe Coscarelli
January 21, 2026



