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Locked Out of Heaven is a Alternative rock act. Their sound grew out of Sting, The Police, Dire Straits, Foster the People and The Romantics. Those roots explain a lot about how Locked Out of Heaven arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Love on the Brain and Safe and Sound, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Bastille and Leona Lewis, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 10 connections around Locked Out of Heaven, reaching back through Sting and forward to Bastille. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
"Locked Out of Heaven" is a song by American singer and songwriter Bruno Mars from his second studio album, Unorthodox Jukebox (2012). It was released as the lead single from the album on October 1, 2012. The song was written by Mars, Philip Lawrence and Ari Levine. It was produced by the former three, under their alias, the Smeezingtons along with Mark Ronson, Jeff Bhasker and Emile Haynie. "Locked Out of Heaven" is a reggae rock and pop rock song influenced by new wave and funk. The song's lyrics are about the rapturous feelings brought about by a relationship infused with positive emotion as well as euphoria from sex.
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Locked Out of Heaven grew out of Sting, The Police, Dire Straits and Foster the People, shares an orbit with Love on the Brain and Safe and Sound, went on to shape Bastille and Leona Lewis. 10 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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