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"What It's Like" is a song by American musician Everlast. It was released in July 1998 as the lead single from his second studio album, Whitey Ford Sings the Blues (1998). The song is typical of the style Everlast embraced after leaving hip hop trio House of Pain, which combines rock, hip-hop and blues while incorporating characterization and empathy towards impoverished protagonists.

The song peaked at number one on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock chart for one week and on the Modern Rock Tracks chart for nine weeks. It also reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the singer's only solo top-40 hit on the US chart.[6] Outside the United States, the song reached number four in Iceland, number six in Canada, and the top 40 in Australia, Austria, Germany, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

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In September 2023, for the 35th anniversary of Modern Rock Tracks (which by then had been renamed to Alternative Airplay),[7] Billboard published a list of the top 100 most successful songs in the chart's history; "What It's Like" was ranked at number 52.[8]

Structurally, the song consists of three verses, a chorus, and a bridge. The last line of the chorus varies according to the particular situation faced by the character in the preceding verse. Each character is sympathetically presented as a victim of circumstance and as being an object of derision. Each verse ends with the line God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in his/her shoes (in the third verse, "...you ever had to wake up to hear the news") and Cause then you really might know what it's like to, with the action varying depending on what the character has to do ("sing the blues," "have to choose," and "have to lose," respectively).

The speaker attempts to build empathy for each character's struggle through the phrase "God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in his/her shoes/Cause then you really might know what it's like". The third verse changes the angle slightly to focus on the family left behind: "Now his wife and his kids are caught in the midst of all of his pain/You know it comes that way, at least that's what they say when you play the game/God forbid you ever had to wake up to hear the news/Cause then you really might know what it's like to have to lose".

The music video was directed by Frank Sacramento in Los Angeles. Everlast is shown singing underwater while the three characters depicted in his song drown. Later they are crowded around a window (possibly dead) behind which an idyllic family is enjoying dinner, oblivious to the less fortunate outside.

"That's What I Like" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars from his third studio album, 24K Magic (2016). The song was written by Mars, Philip Lawrence, Christopher Brody Brown, James Fauntleroy, Johnathan Yip, Ray Romulus, Jeremy Reeves, and Ray McCullough II. The former three produced the song under the name of Shampoo Press & Curl with the latter four, as the Stereotypes, co-producing it. Atlantic Records released the song to Hot AC radio in the United States on January 30, 2017, as the second single from the album. The song is a hip hop soul, new jack swing, R&B and funk track. The song's lyrics address extravagance, a luxurious lifestyle, and love.

In September 2014, Bruno Mars tweeted, "Now it's time to start writing chapter 3", hinting he was working on new music. Following the release of the successful Mark Ronson's single, "Uptown Funk" (2014) featuring Mars, the latter headed to the studio to record more songs. Mars affirmed he had no plans to release a new album "until it's done". It was due in March 2016, but Mars's appearance at the Super Bowl half-time show postponed it for several months. At the time, seven songs were already recorded.[1]

The Stereotypes had known Mars and worked with him since 2007, but after he signed a deal with Atlantic Records they did not collaborate very often.[2] In 2015, Jonathan Yip talked with Mars about working together. Mars was already recording 24K Magic and asked for "some beats", which Yip sent. Mars later asked for more beats and the Stereotypes sent them, but they never heard from him; "nothing came of it".[3][4] In June 2016, Yip contacted Mars, who asked Yip if they would like to help him finish a song for his album; he needed another song with a certain tempo and key.[3][4][5] Yip sent Mars an idea that caught his attention; he asked the Stereotypes to go to the studio.[2][3][6] After they helped Mars finish "24K Magic", Mars challenged the team to help him with two more songs.[2][6]

At this point, Mars had already shown the Stereotypes two songs, including a fully written and produced demo of "That's What I Like" that sounded like a ballad, according to Ray Romulus.[2][5][7] Mars, however, told the Stereotypes he wanted the song to make him move in a certain way and that it was missing a certain "bounce". He wanted them to focus on the "groove, shifting and fine-tuning" until they found the "precise ingredient of danceable joy" that he wanted.[5][7][8] The team started to change the rhythms and the drums of the song, and Mars danced along to it and stopped when he could not move to a chord or drum.[2][8][9] Once the programming of the drums was finished, the song had a different feeling; despite its slow tempo it had a "danceable double-time". This is due to the trap beats, which modernized the track and gave it "bounce".[2][5][7] Then, the Stereotypes tore everything else apart, giving the track new chords and a new pre-hook, B section, and bridge.[2]

In November 2017, Mars was a guest on the Charlie Rose Show. He said the album was intended to make people feel fabulous: "I'm talking about eating shrimp scampi and lobster tails and drinking strawberry champagne".[10] Romulus said the lyrical concept came from Mars, adding, "All that about the Cadillacs and champagne ... that's how Bruno is. He's giving you a day in the life".[7] During a phone interview with CBS Mars said that he second guessed the song, having to listen to it "for over a year to make sure it's all right."[11] It was the first song that Mars asked James Fauntleroy to help him write.[12]

"Versace on the Floor" was scheduled to be the second single released from Mars's third studio album 24K Magic (2016). In early January 2017, however, AllAccess reported that "That's What I Like" was being sent to Top 40 radio stations as the second single instead.[14][15] Atlantic Records released the track on January 30, 2017, to adult contemporary, hot adult contemporary and modern adult contemporary radio stations in the United States and to American contemporary hit radio and rhythmic contemporary stations on the next day.[16][17][18] BBC Radio 1 began adding the song onto their playlists on February 24, 2017.[19] In Italy, the song was sent for radio airplay on March 3, 2017, through Warner.[20] On April 21, 2017, a remix package with four versions of the song was released for digital download in various countries.[21]

Billboard's Andrew Unterberger said the song is reminiscent of the R&B from the early 1990s, infused with New Jack Swing and a little hip-hop, comparing it to the "harmonies and Uptown production of early Jodeci".[22] Christopher R. Weingarten of Rolling Stone wrote that the track "brings the silky vibes" of R. Kelly's 12 Play (1993) "into the boom of modern trap".[29] Chris Molanphy from Slate defined "That's What I Like" as a mix of the "80s-into-90s styles like New Edition pop-and-B and New Jack Swing" infused with "the skittering, thumping 808 drums of a modern trap" song. Molanphy compared Mars's vocals to those of Bobby Brown, especially in his "high-register vocal".[30] Katherine St. Asaph of Pitchfork compared its sound to that of The 20/20 Experience (2013) by Justin Timberlake.[31] Vulture's Craig Jenkins noted a resemblance between the composition of "That's What I Like" and The Neptunes' production of "Kitty Kat" (2006) by Beyonc.[32] The lyrics of the song have been described as "playful" and "opulent"; they were written from the point of view of someone "who loves himself" and luxury ("strawberry champagne and ice bucket") as much as his lover, with her being promised everything she wants, being allowed to "dictate the pace of the night".[23][31][33] Mars references "Julio" from "Uptown Funk".[27][34] On February 26, 2019, West Java's Indonesian Broadcasting Commission placed a daytime ban on the radio broadcast of several songs, including "That's What I Like", due to their adult, offensive and obscene lyrics.[35]

"That's What I Like" received mixed reviews from music critics. Andrew Unterberger, writing for Billboard, and Rob Arcand of Spin found the single to be one of the best on 24K Magic.[22][36] Vulture's Jenkins said the track is one of the best on the album and sonically one of the "most modern" songs due to "a killer vocal and tasteful trap drums".[32] Peter Helman of Stereogum said the recording is one of the "catchiest" tracks on 24K Magic.[37] Caroline Sullivan from The Guardian praised the song for paying homage to R Kelly, calling it a "resurrection".[38] Karen Gwee from Consequence of Sound commended Mars's vocals and said the singer takes his vocals to the limit. Gwee dubbed the track "giddy".[25] The Observer's Kitty Empire praised the lyrics, saying Mars is able to give "conspicuous consumption with more charm than boorishness".[34] In a mixed review Nick Levine, writing for NME, said he did not enjoy the track's lyrics, despite finding them playful.[26]

Jonathan Wroble of Slant Magazine criticized the song's lyrics, saying they appear to be "written with a dollar store's rhyming dictionary". Wroble choose the rhymes between "beach house in Miami" and "Julio, serve that scampi" as an example.[27] The Independent's Andy Gill and Patrick Ryan from USA Today both found the lyrics on "That's What I Like" to exhibit a list of "unimaginative" and "obnoxious" hedonism.[39][40] 17dc91bb1f