{"id":4060,"date":"2021-12-31T16:24:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T22:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.streamapse.com\/?p=4060"},"modified":"2021-12-31T16:24:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T22:24:37","slug":"bruno-mars-if-me-and-andy-were-to-host-a-party-what-would-that-feel-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=4060","title":{"rendered":"Bruno Mars – If Me And Andy Were To Host A Party, What Would That Feel Like?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak were already hard at work on what would become An Evening With Silk Sonic when the pandemic shut down live music in early 2020, but they weren\u2019t going to let that stop them from delivering a concert experience to their fans. \u201cAll of a sudden, my shows get canceled, Andy’s shows get canceled,\u201d Mars told Ebro Darden during their R&B Now interview. \u201cThis fear of \u2018we\u2019ll never be able to play live again\u2019 comes into play. And to take that away from guys like us, that’s all we know. So we’re thinking, all right, let’s put an album together that sounds like a show.\u201d<\/p>\n

It began with the project\u2019s lead single, \u201cLeave the Door Open,\u201d a syrupy-sweet piece of retro soul that Mars considers something of a backbone for the project. After its completion, he and .Paak began building out the nine songs of An Evening With Silk Sonic, soliciting help, in the few instances where they needed it, from friends like Bootsy Collins, Thundercat, and even Kenneth \u201cBabyface\u201d Edmonds. Their access to HOF-worthy firepower notwithstanding, the pair always understood that their own combined musicality was the real draw. \u201cWe just wanted it to feel special,\u201d Mars says. \u201cInstead of trying to get too cute with the concept, it’s like, what’s more special than Anderson .Paak behind a drum set singing a song and me having his back when it’s my turn, you know? And the band moving in the same direction? It was just like a musician’s dream.\u201d Below, the pair talk through some of the tracks that make An Evening With Silk Sonic an experience fans won\u2019t soon forget.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLeave the Door Open\u201d
\nBruno Mars: \u201cMe and Andy come from the school of performing and playing live instruments. We wrote \u2018Leave the Door Open\u2019 and it was just one of those songs like, dang, I can\u2019t believe we a part of this, and we don’t know what it’s gonna do, we don’t care that it’s a ballad or a whatever you wanna call it\u2014to us, this just feels right and it’s important. So no matter what, if it hit No. 1 or it didn’t, me and Andy both know that that was the best we could do. And we were cool with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFly as Me\u201d
\nAnderson .Paak: \u201c\u2018Fly as Me\u2019 is a joint hook [Mars] had for a minute. He was trying to figure out some verses for it, trying to figure out the groove, and we spent some time on that.\u201d
\nMars: \u201cAndy goes behind the drum set one day and says, \u2018The groove gotta be like this,\u2019 and starts playing his groove. D\u2019Mile is on the bass, I’m on the guitar. After all the grooves we tried, I don’t know what it is, there’s something about someone in the studio, someone that you trust, saying, ‘It’s gotta be like this.\u2019 And the groove you hear him playing, which is not an easy groove to play, was what he showed me and D. And we just followed suit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter Last Night\u201d (with Thundercat & Bootsy Collins)
\nMars: \u201cThat one got a lot of Bootsy on it. And my boy Thundercat came in and blessed us. It\u2019s just one of them songs\u2014everything was built to be played live, so that song is one of those we can keep going for 10 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSmokin Out the Window\u201d
\nMars: \u201c\u2018Smokin Out the Window\u2019 was an idea we started four or five years ago on tour. It didn’t sound nothing like how it does now, but we just had the idea. On [.Paak\u2019s] birthday, I called him over. He was hysterical that night. After every take he was like, ‘I’m the king of R&B! I\u2019m the best! Tell me I\u2019m not the hottest in the game!’ We were going back and forth with the lines and who can make who laugh, and we end up finishing that song and he was like, ‘I\u2019m out, what we doing tomorrow?’\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cPut On a Smile\u201d
\nMars: \u201cI had a song that I played for Andy and I said, \u2018What do you think about this?\u2019 and he said, \u2018It sucks.\u2019 I start singing it again and he gets behind the drums and that’s when the magic happens. So we come up with this hook and these chords and that’s when we start cooking, when everything starts moving in the studio. The song’s starting to sound real good now. I don\u2019t wanna mess it up, so I call Babyface. I only call Face to know if I got something good, you know, \u2019cause he\u2019ll tell me too, ‘This is wack.’ For all of us to finish that record together, that was one of my favorite experiences on this album.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSkate\u201d
\nMars: \u201cIt’s hard to be mad on some rollerskates. So really, that’s kinda the essence of this album: If me and Andy were to host a party, what would that feel like? Summertime. Outside. Set up the congas and the drums and amplifiers, and what would that sound like? And this is what our best effort was: ‘Skate.’\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak were already hard at work on what would become An Evening With Silk Sonic when the pandemic shut down live music in early 2020, but they weren\u2019t going to let that stop them from delivering a concert experience to their fans. \u201cAll of a sudden, my shows get canceled, Andy’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[734,60,735],"class_list":["post-4060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-music","tag-bruno","tag-party","tag-would"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}