In 2013, on the GQ Cover Story, the artist revealed that he didn't like the song.

Due to the frustration of not being able to do so, Mars said 'Today I don't feel like doing anything at all', which according to him was an eye-opener. Once you have one piece of the puzzle, like when you realise that a drum track is good, you can add other things in after that.' Bruno Mars affirmed that they were trying to be 'magical and historic' thus creating a track 'that was better than the Beatles'. ' K'naan' was in the studio with us, and the four of us suddenly came up with this idea.' He added, 'After that we had a really hard time getting the groove and the drums to sit right.

That song began one day when we were hanging around the studio and hadn't written a song for a few days and we were kind of burnt out and didn't feel like working.

In an interview with Sound on Sound, Ari Levine explained how they came up with the song ' was a very tough song to write, even though it is so simple. Mars sang 'The Lazy Song' on the television show American Idol and performed it during The Doo-Wops & Hooligans Tour (2010–12), the Hooligans in Wondaland Tour (2011), and occasionally on The Moonshine Jungle Tour (2013–14). It was one of the best selling digital singles of 2011 with sales of 6.5 million copies. It was certified seven times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), five times by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) and four times by Music Canada (MC), respectively. Cameron Duddy and Mars directed the accompanying music video, in which Mars hangs out with five dancers with monkey masks while jest around in his underwear. It charted on most markets within the top five. 'The Lazy Song' reached number four on the US Billboard Hot 100, while it topped the charts in Denmark and in the United Kingdom. Musically, 'The Lazy Song' has been described as borrowing 'heavily from roots reggae' and has been compared to the reggae style of Jason Mraz, while lyrically it is an anthem to laziness. The trio, produced the track under their alias, the Smeezingtons, and wrote the song in collaboration with singer-songwriter K'naan. Development of 'The Lazy Song' began while Mars, Philip Lawrence and Ari Levine were hanging around the studio and didn't feel like working. It was serviced to contemporary hit radios in the United States on February 15, 2011, as the album's third single by Atlantic and Elektra. ' The Lazy Song' is a song by American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars for his debut studio album Doo-Wops & Hooligans (2010). 2011 single by Bruno Mars 'The Lazy Song'

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