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( laughs ) i'll take that. >> kroft: you're seducing the audience. >> beyonce: really, i don't think about it too much. i'm just free, and i can express my sensuality. i can express my pain, vulnerability, my strength, all of those things. >> kroft: where did you learn all that stuff? >> beyonce: well, just because i had a sheltered upbringing doesn't mean i haven't been a woman. i'm a woman that has had life experiences. ( laughs ) >> kroft: and that now brings us to adele. anderson cooper first reported on the british star in 2012, the year she won six grammys. >> ♪ you have my heart inside of your hands ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> cooper: adele's music is intensely personal. she sings almost exclusively about love and the men whose love she's lost. she wrote this song, "rolling in the deep," heartbroken and angry, the day after breaking up with her boyfriend. the song became the top-selling single of 2011, and catapulted her to global stardom. did you ever feel pressure to, well, "i got to look a certain way"? "i have to--" >> adele: no, never. i've never seen magazine covers and seen music videos and been like "i need to look like that if i want to be a success." never. i don't want to be some skinny minny with my ( bleep ) out. i really don't want to do it. ( laughs ) and i don't want people confusing what it is that i'm about. ( singing "rumor has it" ) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i'm not-- i'm not shocking. i just stand there and sing. and i don't do stunts or anything. >> cooper: but i think that's one of the... the things that is so remarkable about your success, and-- is that you're kind of the anti-pop star. i mean, you're not... >> adele: no, i am. >> cooper: you know what i mean. i mean, there... there aren't any gimmicks. it's basically the power of... of your voice and... and what you're singing. >> adele: if i wanted to do all that, i don't think i'd get away with it. i... i just... i don't think people would believe me. >> cooper: but in your songs, i think people believe-- >> adele: yeah. >> cooper: --that you have experienced what you're singing about. >> adele: yeah. >> cooper: i think that comes through. >> adele: i'm just writing love songs. i'm not trying to be pop. i'm not trying to be jazz. i'm not trying to be anything. i'm just writing love songs. and everyone loves a love song. ( singing "someone like you" ) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> cooper: "someone like you" has become another adele anthem, written about that same boyfriend who broke her heart. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> adele: and i wrote that to feel better about myself, really. and it was about trying to convince myself that, oh, we will-- we'll meet someone else and i will be happy. >> cooper: and you have met someone else? >> adele: yeah. who is much better than him. ( laughs ) in fact, next time i sing "someone like you" i'm going to be like, "never mind, i found someone like you." please forget me. >> this cbs sports update is brought to you by the lincoln motor company. at the at&t pebble beach pro-am, jordan spieth picked up his ninth career win, shooting a final round 70 to win by four shots. in college basketball, smu defeated number 11 cincinnati, ending the bearcats' 15-game win streak. in the nark the knicks upset the spurs. for more sports news and information go, to cbssports.com. jim nantz reporting from pebble beach, california. if you're gonna make an entrance... 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( ♪ "uptown funk" ) ♪ ♪ on every song and every note, from arenas to halftime of the super bowl, he and his band, "the hooligans," perform full throttle. ( ♪ "uptown funk" ) ♪ ♪ his standards are high, because the legends of music set them. ( ♪ "uptown funk" ) >> bruno mars: i just really care about what people see. i want them to know that i'm-- i'm working hard for this. ( ♪ "uptown funk" ) the artists that i look up to, james brown. you watch them, and you understand that they're paying attention to the details of their art. and they care so much about what they're wearing, about how they're moving, about how they're making the audience feel. they're not phoning it in. they're going up there to murder anybody that performs after them or performs before them. that's what i've watched my whole life, and admired. ♪ ♪ >> logan: he is a throwback. you see it in the choreography on stage-- ( ♪ "locked out of heaven" ) --and hear it in the songs themselves, descendants of the generations that came before him. ( ♪ "locked out of heaven" ) >> logan: when i listen to your songs-- >> mars: uh-huh? >> logan: --you can hear all those people that you've listened to-- >> mars: yeah. >> logan: --over the years >> mars: a lot of people are really quick to say, "that song sounds like this." or you-- "he's tryin' to sound like this." and i'm always like, "you're damn right i am. that's how-- that's why we're all here." you know, we all grew up idolizing another musician. that's how this works. that's how music is created. >> logan: the musical education of bruno mars began in his hometown: honolulu, hawaii. he was born peter hernandez, to a puerto rican father and filipino mother: parents who were professional musicians, performing together in the tourist showrooms of waikiki beach. their act was called the "love notes," and when bruno was four years old, his parents included him in the family business. ( ♪ "blue suede shoes" ) he played "little elvis" and it's when he first learned he could steal the show. the "little elvis" routine lasted six years, but the lessons of his parents' vegas- style waikiki entertainment revue, have lasted a lifetime. >> mars: you know, it was, like, "school of rock" for me. and it was just-- this kind of razzle-dazzle lifestyle. >> logan: that's real showbiz. >> mars: yeah, show business. you know? >> logan: right? >> mars: and if you wasn't hitting those notes and the audience wasn't... freakin' out, then you weren't doing it right. >> logan: by the time he turned 12, his parents divorced and the family band broke up. money was tight. his four sisters moved in with his mom. he and his brother lived with his dad-- on top of this building? >> mars: on top of this building. >> logan: --anywhere they could. >> mars: my dad was just the king of finding these little spots for us to stay that we should never have been staying at. >> logan: but you were, like, homeless people? >> mars: yeah. no. yeah, for sure. we was in a limousine once. 1984 limousine. >> logan: sleeping in the back of a car, on top of buildings, and this place-- so this is where you lived? --paradise park, a bird zoo where his dad took a job. this was the first time he'd been back here since. even people who work with him haven't heard this part of his story. >> mars: where we were staying at first-- >> logan: yeah? >> mars: --didn't have a bathroom. so we'd have to walk across the park to this other spot that had a bathroom. >> logan: wow. >> mars: in the-- in-- >> logan: and sometimes in the middle of the night. >> mars: in the middle of the night. >> logan: when the park closed, they stayed, moving into this one-room building. this was your house? >> mars: yeah. >> logan: they lived here for more than two years. >> mars: just so people don't think we're crazy-- >> logan: yeah? >> mars: --it did not look like this. >> logan: it had a roof? >> mars: it had a roof. >> logan: it didn't have plants growing inside? >> mars: it didn't have plants growing inside. i don't know what happened to the roof, but the bed would be t >> logan: yeah? and you'd all sleep in one bed? >> mars: we'd all sleep in one bed. >> logan: happy memories? >> mars: the best. >> logan: that's-- it's kind of amazing, in that, what you remember about it is not the struggle or the things you didn't have. >> mars: naw-- >> logan: it's all the things you-- you had. >> mars: yeah. we had it all, you know. we had each other and it never felt like it was the end of the world. "it's all right we don't got-- don't got electric today. it's all right. it's temporary." sayin', "well, we're going to figure this out." maybe that's why i have this mentality when it comes to the music. because i know i'm going to figure-- i'm going to figure it out, just give me some time. >> logan: so he headed for los angeles, where he was quickly signed by motown records. gone was his given name of peter hernandez, branding himself bruno mars instead. "bruno," his childhood nickname, "mars," shooting for the stars. the name stuck, but the record contract didn't. with no hit songs of his own and dead broke, he started over, writing and producing songs for other artists, with friends ari levine and philip lawrence. they were starving musicians. inspired by the hustle just to pay for food, they came up with this song: ( ♪ "billionaire" ) it led to another record deal of his own. ( ♪ "just the way you are" ) ♪ ♪ performer was finally on track. ( ♪ "just the way you are." ) about that time though, he was arrested for possession of 2.5 grams of cocaine. from the outside, you really seem to keep it together and to be very-- professional and, you >> mars: i did something very stupid. i'm in las vegas, lara. i'm 24 years old. i'm, you know, drinking way more than i'm supposed to be drinking and it was so early in my career and i always say that i think it had to happen. that was the reality check i needed, and i'm-- i promised myself that that-- you know, you ain't never going to read about that again. ( ♪ "grenade" ) >> logan: headlines for hits, not drug busts, have been his narrative ever since, capped by two super bowl halftime performances in three years; ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ and three grammys, including "record of the year" for his collaboration with producer mark ronson, "uptown funk." it's tig ( ♪ "uptown funk" ) ♪ ♪ how difficult is it to write a song that's great? >> mars: "uptown funk" took us almost a year to write. and there's songs that taken-- that's taken us two hours to write. and we throw 'em away. "uptown funk" was in the trashcan about ten times. >> logan: really? >> mars: yeah. >> logan: why? >> mars: because we made a lot of-- you know, you can make a left turn and all of a sudden this song is something terrible. embarrassing, almost. but you have this one thing that keeps you going, this one part of the song that feels so good and it makes you want to keep going. and it makes you want-- "ah, we should just try again. let's try again, let's try again." >> logan: he told us the conception of much of his music begins in this california recording studio. >> mars: this is it, lara. >> logan: over the last two years, he has been on lockdown here, trying to answer the of big hits. especially his last one. >> mars: this album, it was daunting, because coming off of "uptown funk" was like the biggest song i've ever been a part of. and then, you're like, all right, now what are you going to do? ( ♪ "24k magic" ) >> logan: this is what he came up with. ( ♪ "24k magic" ) his new album, "24 karat magic." the title song is already another massive hit. ( ♪ "24k magic" ) he showed us how they built the song, from the drums up. ♪ ♪ >> mars: that's how it starts. >> logan: and then? >> mars: well, come on, come on! ( ♪ "24k magic" ) and then we could put some sparkle on it. like, put a little magic dust on it. hear that? ( ♪ "24k magic" ) drums and bass is locking, right? >> logan: yes. >> mars: feel good yet? >> logan: yes! >> mars: then you add the sauce, the secret sauce. you ready? ( ♪ "24k magic" ) that's it. ( ♪ "24k magic" ) 24 karat magic! ( ♪ "24k magic" ) showtime! guess who's back again? >> logan: it's easy to see that bruno mars loves the only job he's ever wanted-- --and that he's still driven, to get it right. >> mars: i was built for this, lara. it's dedicating yourself to your craft. spending thousands of hours in a studio learning how to write a song, learning how to play different chords, training yourself to sing. you know, to get better and better. >> logan: are you there? >> mars: no. i'm not even close. ♪ ♪ good night, y'all! >> i got to look for inspiration. >> bruno mars teaches songwriting 101 at 60minutesovertime.com. sponsored by pfizer. >> kroft: i'm steve kroft. thank you for joining us. we will be back next week with a brand-new edition of "60 minutes." captioning funded by cbs and ford. we go further, so you can. captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org fios is not cable. we're wired differently. t. which means that in the time it takes mr. wagner to pour a 20oz. cup of coffee, tommy can download 40 songs, and jan can upload 180 photos. 12 seconds. that's the power of fiber optics. get 150 meg internet with equal upload and download speeds, tv and phone for just $79.99 per month for the first year. cable can't offer speeds this fast at a price this good. only fios can. fortunately there's a bedples diswhere you both get whatess? you want every night. enter sleep number and the ultimate sleep number event, going on now. sleepiq technology tells you how well you slept and what adjustments you can make. she likes the bed soft. he's more hardcore. so your sleep goes from good to great to wow! only at a sleep number store. and right now save 50% on the ultimate limited edition bed. go to sleepnumber.com for a store near you. 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