Bruno Mars and Fleur East discuss her beating him to Number 1 with his own song

Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak released their album 'An evening with Silk Sonic' on 12th November as R&B duo Silk Sonic, and stopped by the Hits Radio Breakfast Show to chat to Fleur East about their new music.

As soon as Fleur started chatting to Bruno and Anderson, Bruno exclaimed: "You're Uptown Funk!" Fleur instantly knew what he meant and while the pair laughed Bruno told her she had to tell the story to Anderson.

Fleur revealed that she had performed a version of 'Uptown Funk' when she was a contestant on The X Factor, but it was before Bruno Mars had released the song in the UK, and Fleur's version of the song went to Number 1 on iTunes in the UK.

"She had a number one record of 'Uptown Funk'" Bruno said while laughing: "You killed it, you smashed it. It was incredible".

Anderson chimed in: "I would've been p----d", and Fleur asked if Bruno was angry about the situation. He replied: "No I'm not annoyed at all, I just didn't understand. I was like, ok this is how they do it in the UK".

'An Evening With Silk Sonic' has nine tracks and the musical duo released the songs 'Silk Sonic Intro', 'Leave the Door Open', 'Skate', and 'Smokin Out the Window' ahead of the full album release.

Bruno explained how the album came about: "It came together in 2017, when we were on tour together and we started working on, the first song we wrote together was 'Smokin Out the Window' actually, not the version that you hear, but it was the beginning version of what you hear, and then four years later, five years later we got into the studio, we finished it. Got back into the studio and just kept having fun until we created this Silk Sonic."

As the album is called 'An Evening With Silk Sonic', Fleur asked what an evening spent with the two of them would be like. Bruno told her: "It would sound like the album. Like an emotional night" and Anderson added: "Like we just pulled up to your living room and started playing for you".

Listen to Silk Sonic's new song 'Fly As Me':

Anderson shared what he wanted people to get out of the album: "I just want people to feel loved. I want you to feel the love, even in fine records and the uptempo records, you can feel the love that we put into the album."

Fleur asked if we could expect to see the pair perform in the UK anytime soon, and Anderson said: "Via zoom probably until further notice, but God willing we'll be out there soon enough".

We can't wait to see what the pair do next!

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