https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xdyRsGOl6U The Song You Know Remember all those YouTube videos where a guy proposed to his girlfriend by lip-dubbing a Bruno Mars song? Right, that's this song. And it's fairly adorable. Why It's Not So Romantic At the height of Bruno Mars' fame as the harmless crooner that both you and your mother could sing along with, he released his cheesiest, most shamelessly tender ballad. "Marry You" is the kind of song guaranteed to be played hourly on pop radio. The core message of the song is right there in the title, which makes it the perfect proposal song for guys who love to make romantic gestures but hate putting a lot of thought into them. But a simple glance at the lyrics (without the syrupy and fetching melody obscuring your brain's ability to reason) will tell you what this song is actually about:
"We're looking for something dumb to do Hey baby, I think I wanna marry you" "If we wake up and you wanna break up, that's cool No, I won't blame you"
With the class and grace of only the most disciplined Michael Jackson impersonators, Bruno Mars tells his girl (or, at least a girl) that he would very much like to wed her and, yes, he understands it's probably a stupid idea. If that's not the most romantic thing you've heard today...good. Because it's...not romantic in the slightest. Mars himself has stated in interviews that "Marry You" is meant to capture the drunken mistakes one makes in Las Vegas, reinforcing that it's "something you probably shouldn't do and you'll regret in the morning." Knowing that, the fact that so many people have used this song to propose to their significant others in ridiculously elaborate ways becomes more than a little ironic.