After breaking out as a solo artist with elaborate videos for "Just the Way You Are" and "Grenade," Bruno Mars appropriately dials back with the help of five monkey-masked companions in the cheeky clip for "The Lazy Single," the third proper single from the Honolulu-born multi-instrumentalist's debut studio album, "Doo-Wops & Hooligans" that captured the laid-back groove.Musically, "The Lazy Song" displays influences of roots reggae and jawaiian music with elements of pop and R&B. The song has a moderate reggae beat and it humorously kicks reality out the door for a romanticized view of a day in which the protagonist will not do anything. This song is basically about how the 25-year-old singer doesn't want to do anything except sit around and be lazy. The song features the sunny, stress-free Hawaiian sound that Mars grew up with, and is about taking time to relax. Even the instrumentation emphasizes this, with a single upbeat guitar riff, spare drumming and not much else, save for Mars' relaxed, golden crooning rising above the rhythms.
The idea is, as Mars says, to "let everything hang loose," even if that first lazy day stretches into another, and another. He explained where the track came from: "That song just came out of the studio. We were trying to make a song that was better than the Beatles. We were trying to be magical and historic. After five hours, it all turned to rubbish. The frustration got to me and I said, 'Today I don't feel like doing anything at all.' That opened up everyone's eyes. When you're overshooting, you get the worst work. When you're relaxed, you have your best. I'm a light kind of guy."
The plot for the video is simplistic, but extremely random and also somewhat entertaining. Directed by Nez, the video features Poreotics disguised as monkeys. The whole video is one shot of Mars singing in a bedroom and his crew of monkey-masked homeboys dancing and goofing off at his house, ditching whatever responsibilities they've got in the clip. It's a thrifty offering, yet what it lacks in budget is made up for in fun; Mars and the boys thought up some pretty zany choreography and do it all in one unbroken camera shot.
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