Natalie (Bruno Mars song)

"Natalie"
Song by Bruno Mars
from the album Unorthodox Jukebox
Released	December 7, 2012
Format	Digital download
Recorded	2012
Genre	R&B soul blues
Length	3:45
Label	Atlantic Records
Songwriter(s)	The Smeezingtons Paul Epworth Benny Blanco
Producer(s)	The Smeezingtons Paul Epworth Benny Blanco

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"Natalie" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars from his second studio album, Unorthodox Jukebox. The song was written and produced by The Smeezingtons, Paul Epworth and Benny Blanco.

Background

The song is about a gold digger whose name is "Natalie", in the lyrical content, it's revealed that she stole Mars' money and ran away with it, while Mars is plotting a murderous revenge against her.

"Everyone's asking me who this Natalie woman is", Mars said in his MTV First Interview. "and, you know, as a song-writer I don't know how it works, it started off, you know, a girl stole my watch, and then this girl turns into this Natalie and I take it to the extreme, I feel like... It's gotta be from somewhere... I wrote the shit", he added "We all been there once or twice".

After Mars been in studio with Benny Blanco and Paul Epworth, they came up with a song. Blanco said: "I got a really cool song with him. Me and Paul [Epworth] just got together and Bruno wrote an amazing song on top of it. It kind of all came together." Discussing the song, Blanco states, "It's like some throwback Nina Simone type shit, like 'Sinnerman'.".

Critical response

Writing for Billboard, Jason Lipshutz noticed that "Handclaps and canned strings welcome the flip-side of "When I Was Your Man" with Mars lamenting the hypnotism of a "gold-digging bitch." The nimble production details—different sounds seem to burst at every punctuation mark—abet a vicious takedown of the titular female". Emily Tan off Idolator compared the song to the work of Michael Jackson, saying "“Natalie” has the same angst and regretful air that “Billie Jean” did." IGN writers felt that ""Natalie" could be the spiritual sequel to "Grenade" in its subject matter. Perhaps about the same girl? A similar one? Who knows. With soft guitar in there and almost exactly the same instrumentation that "Grenade" had". Later they added: ""Natalie" is an explicit, more vengeful return to form. "Natalie" speaks of a woman who not only leaves him, but runs away with all his money, and even frames him, after which he speaks of possibly killing her once he gets out. A song with power, vengeful spirit, and spite. A good song."

Spin's Dan Hyman opined that ""Rolling in the Deep" mastermind Paul Epworth joins omnipresent pop maven Benny Blanco behind the boards for the two-timer tell-off "Natalie," a sort of methed-up "Dirty Diana" ("Look out for pretty little thing," Mars warns) assembled with fierce handclaps and hard-edged oooh-oooh vocal echos." The song received a mixed review from The Observer critic Caroline Sullivan, who noticed the album "also reveals Mars's bleak view of the women in his life. In Natalie, he even contemplates killing his beloved ("I'd spend a lifetime in jail, I'll be smiling in my cell"), revealing an unpleasantness you'd rather he had kept to himself."

Chart performance

On the week of March 24, 2014, despite not being released as an official single, the song entered the New Zealand Singles Chart at number 35. It reached a peak of number 28 four weeks later, before falling off the chart after 6 weeks.

Charts

Chart (2014)	Peak position
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)	28

Composition

Written in the key of D minor with tempo of 111BPM, Mars range spans from A3-Eb5.

References

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