Unorthodox Jukebox is a pop, R&B, rock, funk, soul, reggae and disco record.

Unorthodox Jukebox, Bruno Mars' 2nd studio album, features a gorilla using an old time jukebox on the cover. The gorilla is an obvious nod to the album's third track by that name, but also represents the unorthodox. It symbolizes Hernandez's desire to stand out and make the music he wants to make.

Mars and his songwriting/production team The Smeezingtons (Mars, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine) partnered with heavyweight producers including Jeff Bhasker, Mark Ronson and Diplo to create the 10-track album.

Musical style and themes. Mars' music has been noted for displaying a wide variety of styles, musical genres, and influences, including pop, rock, reggae, R&B, soul, and hip hop. His debut album Doo-Wops & Hooligans, a pop record, is influence by these genres.

A jukebox musical is a stage musical or musical film in which a majority of the songs are well-known popular music songs, rather than original music. Moulin Rouge!, a jukebox musical, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

The word “jukebox” most likely originated in the Southern states of the USA where African slaves went to “juke joints” after working the fields for some fun and dancing.

Traditional jukeboxes once were an important source of income for record publishers. Jukeboxes received the newest recordings first. They became an important market-testing device for new music, since they tallied the number of plays for each title.

Fast forward to the late 1940s, when records became more widely available. The term “jukebox” also became widely known during this time, deriving from the reference to juke joints, which originated from Gullah culture with the word “juke,” which means rowdy, disorderly, or wicked.

The origins of the jukebox Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, which Louis Glass and William S. Arnold modified in 1890 to make it coin-operated. Albert K. Keller claims to have invented a coin-operated phonograph first, but Glass and Arnold were the first to do a public demonstration.

1.”Hound Dog”; “Don't Be Cruel”--Elvis Presley 2. “Crazy”--Patsy Cline 3. “Rock Around The Clock”--Bill Haley and the Comets 4. “(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay”--Otis Redding 5.

Alternative/IndieBruno Major / Genre

Sound. Mars' music is retro and contemporary at the same time - and strikingly eclectic. His songbook runs the gamut from reggae to pop balladry to new jack swing to Earth, Wind & Fire-like horns-and-harmony R&B to classic rock 'n' soul to '80s pop-soul to fashionable hip-hop meets R&B. Work ethic.