Grenade (song)
September 28, 2010
Grenade ( German: " grenade ") is the title of an R & B song of the American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars.
Background information
- Bruno Mars
Grenade was written by Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine, Brody Brown, Claude Kelly, and Andrew Wyatt. The production of the song took over the production team The Smeezingtons, consisting of Mars, Lawrence and Levine. In an interview with the U.S. website Idolator Bruno Mars revealed that the songwriter and producer Benny Blanco played him an unreleased song on a similar theme as that of Grenade, which served as inspiration for the song. He also expressed the wish to publish Grenade as a single, as he was one of his personal favorites.
Before the release of the album Doo - Wops & Hooligans two promo singles were released exclusively on iTunes. The first single was Liquor Store Blues, a collaboration with Damian Marley. This was followed on 28 September Grenade as a second pre - publication.
Composition
Grenade is a pop and R & B ballad. A published by Sony / ATV Music Publishung sheet shows that Grenade is written in the key of D minor and at 108 beats per minute has an average pace. Mars ' vocal range covers the range from A3 to D5. The song begins quietly, the volume is, however, constantly, musically and lyrically, to the climax, the chorus, increased. In the background can be heard " pulsating synthesizer sounds ." According to Jon Caramanica, The New York Times, the song contains elements of pop music from the eighties and is accompanied by drums, like Kanye West, they also used. Grenade includes parts of the song I'll Fight of the singer Jeff Tweedy.
Lyrically Grenade of an unrequited love. Mars sings about how he would do anything for his beloved, so catch including a grenade for them, or throw a ball for them before.
Reception
Grenade was very well received by critics. Josef Gasteiger, Loud, said that the song " it lacks a little punch, although the slight scratching in Mars ' voice like quite. " Bill Lamb of About gave the song a rating of 4.5 out of a possible 5 points, praising Mars ' vocals as well as the soulful, heart-engaging text of the song, which " strengthens its position as one of the best new artist of the year. " Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly named Grenade of as an " atmospheric opener" of the album Doo - Wops & hooligans and as a Highlights of the album. Often Grenade was compared to Michael Jackson's Dirty Diana, had gecovert a song that Mars ' at many concerts. Eric Henderson of Slant Magazine criticized Grenade but for the unrealistic text and Tim Sendra of Allmusic Grenade found for " exaggerated " and one of the weaker songs on the album.
Versions
Music Video
The music video for Grenade was released on November 19. Director of the video was NABIL. In a behind- the - scenes video Mars said: "The concept of the video is my struggle, to show this girl that I really would do anything for them. So I go so far as to draw a piano to her so that I can open my heart to her with a song. " In the video you can see Mars ' efforts to draw a piano on a rope to his beloved. On his way through Los Angeles, he runs through the streets, in a car tunnel, and on the hill to the house of his mistress. However, when he finds out that this is with another man, he throws himself under a train.
Charts
Grenade was in the U.S. reach the top of the charts and was, according to Nothin ' on You and Just the Way You Are Mars ' third number -one hit in a row on the Billboard charts. Also in New Zealand and Australia managed Grenade jump to the top of the charts. In Canada Grenade reached # 5 on the singles chart.
In New Zealand, Grenade was awarded a platinum record for 15,000 copies sold.
In the week ending January 8, 2011 Grenade has been downloaded 559,000 times. Thus, the title reached number four of the most downloaded songs in history.
Contributors
The following people worked on the creation of the song Grenade by:
- Songwriting: Body Brown, Claude Kelly, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine, Bruno Mars, Andre Wyatt
- Song: Bruno Mars
- Instrumententierung: Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine, Bruno Mars
- Engineer Ari Levine
- Assistant: Erik Madrid, Christian Plata
- Production: Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine