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
this dude reminds me of patrick bateman
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
Gotta say that "Payphone" has been a serious earworm for me over the last week or so. I wake up with that in my head at least every other day. I'll hand it to them for that...although I wonder: Is Wiz Khalifa the guy that Adam Levine is trying to call from a payphone? Why is he so upset?
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 26 July 2012 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
"Payphone" was spawned in a deep layer of hell.
― The Reverend, Friday, 27 July 2012 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, alas. I was crazy wrong about this.
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 25 July 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
I remember the girl I was dating at the end of 2003 went to NYC for an internship interview at MTV, or something, and came back raving about this band she'd met backstage of Total Request Live. They're the next big thing! They're great! Then: You probably wouldn't like them though.
They was band I was going to be hearing a lot of for many years to come.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 25 July 2013 21:44 (ten years ago) link
Last weekend I asked an L.A. friend whose clients run in mid-level circles if Adam Levine was the guy you most wanted at some exec party. "You have no idea," he said.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 July 2013 21:56 (ten years ago) link
The first time I ever heard Maroon 5 was thought hearing "Harder to Breathe" on the local radio back in either late 2002 or early 2003, before they were really getting big, and just assumed that it was a new single by Wide Mouth Mason.
This also happened with "The Remedy" by Jason Mraz, who I'm actually more surprised is still having hit songs.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 25 July 2013 22:00 (ten years ago) link
I'm fairly certain I've never listened to a Maroon 5 song. I'm surviving.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Friday, 26 July 2013 00:25 (ten years ago) link
You don't listen to radio then?
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 July 2013 02:43 (ten years ago) link
Where I first heard of them: http://books.google.com/books?lr=&rview=1&id=6Vy26TGdauEC&q=branch#v=snippet&q=branch&f=false
― Uncle Cyril O'Boogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 26 July 2013 04:15 (ten years ago) link
Click on the page image for it to uncollapse.
― Uncle Cyril O'Boogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 26 July 2013 04:16 (ten years ago) link
All you got wrong was that you didn't take into account the fact that a band that's advertised as a "band you're going to be hearing a lot of for many years to come!" has stupid amounts of record company money backing them, and are going to be around for years no matter how fucking piss awful they are.
― slamming on the dubstep brakes (snoball), Friday, 26 July 2013 07:12 (ten years ago) link
All you got wrong was that you didn't take into account the fact that a band guy that's advertised as a "band you're going to be hearing a lot of for many years to come!" has stupid amounts of record company money backing them him
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 July 2013 11:32 (ten years ago) link
There was a moment there where it seemed like they were on their way out. Only one single from their second album did particularly well on the charts and none of the singles from their third album felt as ubiquitous on radio as their first few did. They hadn't had a top ten since 2007 and then they released Moves Like Jagger, which kicked off another streak of hits.
― Greer, Friday, 26 July 2013 20:47 (ten years ago) link
more like streak of shit
― slamming on the dubstep brakes (snoball), Friday, 26 July 2013 20:52 (ten years ago) link
Still, Train have to get the award for longest gap between being a terrible couple-of-hits rock band and having an even more ubiquitous, headsticky pop comeback. If you'd told me in 2003 or so that in 2010 they'd have the biggest hit of their career I'd have slit my throat.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 26 July 2013 21:13 (ten years ago) link
^^This. Lots of deals with the Devil afoot.
― Uncle Cyril O'Boogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 26 July 2013 21:17 (ten years ago) link
ha, I remember my buddy being like "Wait, you're not joking. Train is back? Whose idea was that, the Dark Priest Shaft?"
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 26 July 2013 21:20 (ten years ago) link
(castlevania reference)
What a shit new video trying to go viral, as if any random wedding parties would lose their shit, young and old, black and white, whatever and whatever else, for a surprise appearance by Maroon 5. Even if it weren't fake I'd cry foul.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 January 2015 17:41 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I was tricked into clicking on a link to this as well - it isn't even slightly believable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09R8_2nJtjg
― StanM, Saturday, 17 January 2015 18:30 (nine years ago) link
lol i love how similar it is to katy perry's "birthday" and yet it's going to become a big hit while "birthday" did... not
― dyl, Saturday, 17 January 2015 18:31 (nine years ago) link
"it was a normal wedding until this surprise blew everyone away!" was the clickbait turd I stupidly stepped into. My shoes still smell.
― StanM, Saturday, 17 January 2015 18:33 (nine years ago) link
lol at the race bait too. I imagine The marketing guy saying 'ok, so we need to show that Maroon 5 is not a white man's band, let's appeal to everyone, we need to show asian people, black people all vibing to maroon 5.' Surprised there's no gay wedding or mexican wedding, maybe the mkt guy thought that was a bit too much.
― Moka, Saturday, 17 January 2015 18:51 (nine years ago) link
The Marketing 5.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 17 January 2015 18:55 (nine years ago) link
Just heard this quote on VH1 by some stooge from Entertainment Weekly in regards to their video, "This Love". Now, while I'm sure they're perfectly nice guys, doesn't the notion that Maroon 5 have a long, successful career in front of them seem positively laughable? I mean, Maroon 5 are just this year's Third Eye Blind. Or am I missing something, and they really are the fuckin' second coming?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, February 21, 2004
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 17 January 2015 19:21 (nine years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, January 17, 2015 10:55 AM Bookmark
!
― The Reverend, Saturday, 17 January 2015 19:41 (nine years ago) link
http://cdn.sheknows.com/articles/2013/11/JULES/Adam_Levine_GIF/tumblr_m13dhgNJsR1rqwtl4o1_500.gif
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 17 January 2015 19:42 (nine years ago) link