UPDATE APRIL 11 – Charice’s new song is called “Before It Explodes” and will be released as a single on April 18th, now posted at Amazon.com and sure to be available soon on iTunes. Watch for it! …and watch the video playlist below for Charice’s song teaser and Bruno Mars’ video with lyrics.
Bruno Mars Interview
While in the Philippines for a 2-night concert tour, Bruno Mars sat down for an interview with Ricardo Lo of the Philippine Star, and revealed that he recently produced a song for Charice titled, “Before It Explodes”. Mars, who is half-Filipino, answered questions about his Filipino heritage and then the interviewer asked him if had already worked with a Filipino artist. Mars answered, “Yeah. I just produced a song for Charice. It’s called “Before They Explode”. He also described it as a love song – “It says, ‘We have to stop the madness before our love explodes.”
This is not the first time Charice’s name has been mentioned with Bruno Mars. Just this February, Charice made headlines with her top-rating Valentine Special on Philippine TV, where she sang a show-stopping version of Bruno Mars’ “Grenade”. While introducing the song, Charice even mentioned that Bruno Mars is one of her favorite American composers – no wonder she agreed to record “Before It Explodes”. It’s a great song with meaningful lyrics, plus it showcases Charice’s amazing voice. Looks like Charice has a possible no. 1 hit in her second album, right?
Video Playlist: New single sampler “Before It Explodes”
Available April 18th at >>> Amazon.com
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Lyrics – Before It Explodes
It’s not a question of love
‘Cause our love has never changed
But all the little things keep piling up
And life keeps getting in the way(Chorus)
Don’t make this harder than it is
We both knew it’d come to this
Better now than in a year
More nights of tears and we both hate each other
The fuse is already lit, so how about a final kiss
And just let it go…
And stop the madness before it explodes
Before it’s out of our control
Let’s stop the madness before it explodes
We gotta let it go
Before it all explodesSomethings we won’t understand
And we’re both so tired of being misunderstood
So let’s just turn and walk away
And hold on to what was good(Chorus)
Before it explodes, before it’s out of our control
Let’s stop the madness before it explodes
We gotta let it go
Before it all explodes…
Bruno Mars arrived in the Philippines on April 6, 2011 for two performances in Cebu and Manila. The Cebu concert held on April 7 was his first one in the country. He will again perform for a sold-out crowd at the Araneta Coliseum on April 8. Bruno Mars is best known for his widely popular song, “Just The Way You Are” which earned him a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. His other hits include “Grenade”, “Nothing on You”, a collaboration with B.o.B, and “Billionaire” with Travie McCoy.
Before he gained fame and success as a singer, Bruno Mars was already an accomplished songwriter/music producer. He has worked with Adam Levine of Maroon 5, Brandy, and Sean Kingston. Some of the hits he co-wrote are “F*@! You” by Cee Lo Green and “Right Round” by Flo Rida.
Though we all want to hear Charice sing “Before They Explode” now, there’s no announced date yet for the release of her sophomore album. To satisfy your curiosity about the kind of song “Before They Explode” is, listen to Bruno Mars demo of the song. A possibly nearer version to Charice’s take on the song is Alexandra Burke’s unreleased rendition of it. For those who don’t know her, Alexandra Burke is the winner of X-Factor Season 5, the American Idol show of Britain – and her voice is nearly powerful as that of Charice. While she recorded a version of the song, it was never officially released.
By Sofia Carrera, charicemania.com
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X-Factor is NOT the American Idol show in Britain. X-Factor is Simon’s Cowell brainchild. Pop Idol is the original British show that started it all.
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i thought this will be a duet—coz , charice would have this song as explosive as bruno together..too bad! really!
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By that, people, sites will all talk about Charice.
I think this is the idea of the team behind Charice, to take advantage the publicity of All by myself and have the Before it explodes follow it immediately. So we have to bring the two singles at the top. (But I guess it will happen naturally)
then by the following week, we’ll see the two singles on the billboard 100.
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Yes. Lisbon. They really are. Anyways, i think that version was still raw thats why Bruno’s voice sounds bad…Still waiting for the real song and that’s gonna be coming on April 18. ^@^
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do you mean that Philippine radio can play an unreleased song (isn’t that unethical not to mention illegal?) and not pay royalties to the artist? On public radio? Bruno Mars was just in concert in PH last week, surely he must know about it? hmmm….
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I have even seen no-lifers making anti-Charice screen names just to bash her???What’s the point?????
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there are always haters…
just be happy they are born that way!
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One will think why Bruno Mars did not release this song himself – he sang it good and so with Alexandra Burke’s unreleased version. I’m sure BM was looking for the best singer who can propel his composition to the top of the chart – and so she found and chose our princess CHA (Remember “Note to God” – Diane Warren placed her music piece in her backpack for a while until she found CHA and rest is history.) We should all support our idol by downloading this new single come April 18th!
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-Kurt from NJ
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palag, i believe in you… LOL
You’re blood pressure might explode heheheheh
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