Bruno Mars

Bruno Mars takes it back in the vintage video for "When I Was Your Man," the second single off his sophomore album Unorthodox Jukebox. Rocking a perm, the R&B crooner pours his heart out as he sits at the piano while taping a TV special in the throwback clip, which he co-directed.

The song was written by Mars, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine and Andrew Wyatt, while production was handled by The Smeezingtons.

"When I Was Your Man" is a soul piano ballad about a pre-fame heartbreak as he regrets a girl that he let get away, expressing his earnest hope that her new man is giving her all the love and attention he was unwilling, or unable to provide when they were together.

While working on the album, Mars wrote the song with Miike Snow's Andrew Wyatt. "When we started the record, I was like, 'I'm never singing another ballad again,' but that came from the gut - it's the most honest, real thing I've ever sang," he says. "When there are no safe bets, that's when I feel my blood move."

The song has received positive reviews from music critics, who praised Mars's vocals and named it a "vulnerable and emotional ballad". It charted in some countries, such as Australia, Canada, France, South Korea and US.

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