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"Bruno Mars has reflected on being rejected by record executives early in his career. The singer initially struggled in a floundering deal with Motown, before reaching success by producing tracks for Flo Rida, Travie McCoy and Brandy.  Mars revealed in a Billboard interview that the failures of his early solo career only spurred his drive to become a popstar. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, &amp;#039;Your music sucks, you don&amp;#039;t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don&amp;#039;t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us&amp;#039;,&amp;quot; the &amp;#039;Grenade&amp;#039; star recalled. He further explained: &amp;quot;That was disgusting to me, because I&amp;#039;m not trying to be a circus act. I listen to a lot of music and I want to have the freedom and luxury to walk into a studio and say, &amp;#039;Today I want to do a hip-hop, R&amp;amp;B, soul or rock record&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; Mars achieved his breakthrough success with the 2010 album Doo-Wops &amp;amp; Hooligans, which spawned the US and UK number-one hit &amp;#039;Grenade&amp;#039;. His second studio album Unorthodox Jukebox will be released on December 11 in the US. Watch Bruno Mars&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Count on Me&amp;#039; music video below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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