this dude reminds me of patrick bateman
― and what, Thursday, 13 September 2007 22:46 (sixteen years ago) link
so does Gavin Newsom
― blunt, Thursday, 13 September 2007 22:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I love their last two singles.
― Tim F, Friday, 14 September 2007 00:58 (sixteen years ago) link
The new single sucks. If they'd released "Kiwi," they'd have another Number One. What a poet -- if Adam Levine were my boyfriend I'd want him to compare me to a furry fruit with gelatinous juice.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 14 September 2007 01:01 (sixteen years ago) link
You don't mean "Wake Up Call" do you Alfred? That's the current single in Australia. So good to hear on the radio - I love a big fat obvious punch line.
― Tim F, Friday, 14 September 2007 05:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Their photograph on the Rolling Stone of about a month ago could quite possibly be the most hateful, irritating photo to ever grace that periodical's cover in DECADES.
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 14 September 2007 13:25 (sixteen years ago) link
...hateful? was he bathing in babies' blood?
― ^@^, Friday, 14 September 2007 13:32 (sixteen years ago) link
He was holding up a copy of Alex's first post to this thread in a "Dewey Defeats Truman"
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 14 September 2007 13:40 (sixteen years ago) link
fashion
i could totally see adam levine giving an enthusiastic description of some '80s pop nugget before slamming a wire hanger into some poor fan's vagina.
"Wake Up Call" hasn't really clicked for me, but random line deliveries from "Makes Me Wonder" stick in my head all the time. Usually the way he says "want to dive into you." Dude's got the most amazing/disturbing stare in music today.
― da croupier, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I hate "Wake Up Call."
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
The only feasible number one single off IWBSBL apart from of course Makes me Wonder is the third single "Won't go Home Without You." Pretty much every song on the album is top ten material though.
― butchy, Friday, 14 September 2007 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link
He was holding up a copy of Alex's first post to this thread in a "Dewey Defeats Truman" fashion
Hahaha - I hope he's reading this. (Adam Levine that is, not Alex)
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 15 September 2007 08:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Not Truman either
Why do gay people love Maroon 5 singer?
― pft, Saturday, 15 September 2007 09:24 (sixteen years ago) link
because no one in the history of pop culture has ever overcompensated more.
― da croupier, Saturday, 15 September 2007 13:01 (sixteen years ago) link
possibly in the history of time itself
We gay people keep wishing he pens a song worthy of his looks and douchebaggery. He's almost there.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 15 September 2007 13:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually I think part of it is that gay men have this weird mythology thing going for straight guys who appear to get a lot of sex. There are a lot of possible explanations for this.
Plus there's his occasional tendency to look like Jack from Lost:
http://www.obliquity65.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/052507.jpg
http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/resources/2007/05/10766013-10766016-slarge.jpg
― Tim F, Saturday, 15 September 2007 13:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, Levine projects promiscuity.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 15 September 2007 13:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah totally - much more than actual hotness oddly.
― Tim F, Saturday, 15 September 2007 13:53 (sixteen years ago) link
He's clever enough to sense this and start writing "pervy" songs like "Wake Up Call" and "Kiwi," both of which represent what his fans want him to be. I see him losing interest in future "She Will Be Loved"s.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 15 September 2007 13:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I see him losing interest in female pronouns too.
― da croupier, Saturday, 15 September 2007 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link
feminine pronouns, rather.
― da croupier, Saturday, 15 September 2007 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, Levine projects promiscuity
Does he? I really don't understand why gay people thinks so.
― pft, Saturday, 15 September 2007 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
"Wake Up Call" is kind of great, guys.
― HI DERE, Saturday, 15 September 2007 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Does he? I really don't understand why gay people thinks so
All we do is think about sex.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 15 September 2007 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link
there is no message to their music or videos beyond "women can't stop fucking Adam Levine."
― da croupier, Saturday, 15 September 2007 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
i suppose these visuals and lyrics are picked up on their "gaydar."
― da croupier, Saturday, 15 September 2007 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link
That's such a classic message in pop music though. Remember Joe Jackson's 1980 single "Is She Really Going To Engage In Sexual Intercourse With That Chump From Maroon 5?"
― Cunga, Sunday, 16 September 2007 01:31 (sixteen years ago) link
"I Knew The Bride When She Used To Fuck Adam Levine."
― da croupier, Sunday, 16 September 2007 05:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Hall and Oates' "I Can't Go For That (Levine You Do)"
― Cunga, Sunday, 16 September 2007 05:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I met this guy, I'm pretty sure I get more sex thna him. Also, I am DRUNK.
― Spencer Chow, Sunday, 16 September 2007 11:08 (sixteen years ago) link
otm
― latebloomer, Sunday, 16 September 2007 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd never heard this band before today, when their song "I won't go home without you" came on the radio in a shoe store. It sounded almost exactly like the Smoking Popes to my ears. Is this deliberate?
― Dog/Face/Chain (res), Saturday, 18 October 2008 04:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Every time this thread is revived Alex in NYC's thread-title becomes more lolsworthy.
― Tim F, Saturday, 18 October 2008 04:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Maroon5/PhantomPlanet/TheLike are all in the same liferaft. Let's see who eats the others and survives. Those hungry young girlies'll are already chowing on M5's toes and working north. Soon M5'll be opening for them, as opposed to the other.― bh, Saturday, February 21, 2004 3:59 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark
Guess it was M5 that survived after all.
― Pillbox, Saturday, 18 October 2008 04:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I don't think I ever heard "The Like" even. Whereas Maroon 5, I am dimly aware that they continue to have a career. And even though I can't specifically recall any songs they've done since "This Love," I still find myself trying to describe other things I hear as being vaguely Maroon 5-esque.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 18 October 2008 05:00 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure they had some decent size hits this past yeat. I don't generally listen to the radio, though, so I haven't heard anything.
― Pillbox, Saturday, 18 October 2008 05:04 (fifteen years ago) link
People who listen to the radio would know:
She Will Be LovedHarder To Breathe (I think this is what it's called)Sunday MorningMakes Me WonderWake Up CallI Won't Go Home Without YouIf I Never See Your Face Again
That's a very big number of radio staples from just two albums.
― Tim F, Saturday, 18 October 2008 05:06 (fifteen years ago) link
they sound like a very very sleazy version of The Police.
― Cannabis Zed Omega (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 18 October 2008 06:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I like them. Especially the one with Rhianna.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 18 October 2008 07:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually I forgot to mention that although the tune (particularly the chorus) sounds like the great Smoking Popes, the song has none of the energy of the Smoking Popes, and in fact sounds like what the Smoking Popes might have sounded like if they had tried to get crossover appeal like all the other soulless bullshit on mainstream radio. Yuck!
― Dog/Face/Chain (res), Saturday, 18 October 2008 14:05 (fifteen years ago) link
well damn
― Chris S, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 10:28 (twelve years ago) link
Somebody was right. and it wasn't AlexNYC...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 10:50 (twelve years ago) link
Alex In NYC is wrong about a lot of things and sadly, he was wrong about this.
― Cold Chisel dude Cold Chisel (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 11:39 (twelve years ago) link
It's not my fault our species is largely comprised of slackjawed idiots without taste.
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 9 February 2012 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://pulmaosarss.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/batsignal.png
― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 February 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
yay!
― Mark G, Thursday, 9 February 2012 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
Maroon 5!
Oh wait...
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 July 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link