Doo-Wops & Hooligans is the debut album of
Bruno Mars, and it was the beginning of his mark on the music industry, and he had many singles emerge from the album including "Grenade", "Just The Way You Are", "The Lazy Song", and "Marry You" to name a few. The album was a complete success and it was only the beginning for Bruno for the years to come.
Tracklist:
- "Grenade" (3:42)
- "Just the Way You Are" (3:40)
- "Our First Time" (4:03)
- "Runaway Baby" (2:27)
- "The Lazy Song" (3:15)
- "Marry You" (3:50)
- "Talking to the Moon" (3:37)
- "Liquour Store Blues" (feat. Damian Marley) (3:49)
- "Count On Me" (3:17)
- "The Other Side" (feat. Cee Lo Green and B.o.B) (3:47)
I'll trope a grenade for you, trope my head on a plane for you, I'd jump in front of a trope for you, you know I'd do anything for you!
- All Take and No Give: "Grenade" starts off by calling out the woman of affection for being guilty of this:
Easy come, easy go,
that's just how you live, oh
take, take, take it all,
but you never give...
- The Casanova: The narrator of "Runaway Baby".
- Downer Ending: "Grenade". The narrator finds himself permanently trapped in an abusive relationship because as much as he hates her for it, he still can't bring himself to break up with his girlfriend and the music video implies that he tries to escape by killing himself.
- Driven to Suicide: In the ending of the "Grenade" video. Mars discovers his girlfriend making out with another man while pretending Mars didn't arrive at their door, causing him to drag his piano onto a set of train tracks. In complete sorrow, Mars plays the piano he placed on the train tracks until an oncoming train destroys them both.
- Just the Way You Are: "Just the Way You Are", obviously. To our younger tropers, Mars's song is not the Trope Namer; that would be Billy Joel's song of the same name.
- Mood Whiplash: To shift from the depressing but happy and upbeat tone of "Grenade" to the completely happy "Just The Way You Are" is jarring.
- Ode to Apathy: His aptly-titled "Lazy Song" is about him lazing around all day and doing nothing, not even giving a care to the world for one moment. The music video makes it extravagant with the addition of people in monkey masks dancing to the laid back tune and Leonard Nimoy playing a version of himself that is a gigantic jerk and is lazing around in his pijama.
Today I don't feel like doing anything
I just wanna lay in my bed
Don't feel like picking up my phone
So leave a message at the tone
'Cause today I swear I'm not doing anything
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "Cause you're amazing! Just! The! Way! You! Are!"
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: The song lyrically of "Grenade" is this.
- Self-Empowerment Anthem: "Just the Way You Are" and it's no secret.
- Something Blues: "Liquour Store Blues".
- The Something Song: "The Lazy Song".
- Stupid Sacrifice: In "Grenade", the narrator would die for someone who doesn't love him back.
- Ungrateful Bitch: The premise of "Grenade" is a musical "The Reason You Suck" Speech about a partner who never appreciates anything a man does for her as a couple.
- When She Smiles: In "Just the Way You Are":
"And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while."
