Bruno Mars: Every artist should want to be like MJ

HIT singer has long been a fan of the King of Pop, covering his songs and wearing his distinctive fedora-style hats and believes Jackson has set the bar for music artists.
BRUNO Mars claims that every artist “should always aspire to be like Michael Jackson”.
The 27-year old, from Hawaii, who was the world’s biggest-selling male act of 2011 and is about to release his second album, how to do it withhas long been a fan of the King of Pop.
Bruno showed The X Factor hopefuls just an incredible performance of his current single Locked Out of Heaven, which had show favourite Jahmene Douglas tweeting about him being an “amazing performer”.

And the American owes it to Jackson, who died in June 2009. Bruno said: “I feel like he set the bar for artists. Any artist, I don’t care what genre you do, you should always aspire to be like Michael Jackson.
“Because the details, the attention to detail he did on everything he did, everything he was a part of, you can look at what made him so iconic, the glove, the hat, the dancing, the music videos, the way he sang when he sang, everything he did was Michael Jackson, and he just kind of stamped that on the world.
Bruno Mars impersonated Michael Jackson
“Oh no,” Bruno laughed, “I use my hat because my hair is a mess all the time.”
Jackson is not the only person Bruno is good at impersonating.
He became the world’s youngest Elvis impersonator and had a cameo in the 1992 film Honeymoon in Vegas starring Nicolas Cage and Sarah Jessica Parker.
Who is easier to impersonate – the King of Pop or the King of Rock 'n Roll?
He said: “Neither, they are both amazing. It was more of a novelty I think because I was so little, so it wasn’t really like an accurate impersonation, it was more just a funny thing to watch. I never sounded like Elvis at all either or looked like Elvis.”
“I learned that you had to show up to a record playboy and say, ‘This is my music, take it or leave it’. No one can create a Michael Jackson, no one can make a Led Zeppelin or The Beatles, it can’t be done, it has to be something there, and you have to give me that, you have to be the one to say, ‘This is me. Either you are in or you are out’.”
He said: “It’s one thing to buy the song, like the song, like the lyrics, like the production, it’s another thing to see the artist perform that song, that’s why Michael Jackson is the best.
“To see him do it, to see whatever it is, the artistic way he brought it to life live, and paint a whole other picture and I feel like it was very important when you hear this album.