"Maroon 5 is band you're going to be hearing a lot of for many years to come!"

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.

more like streak of shit

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.

^^This. Lots of deals with the Devil afoot.

ha, I remember my buddy being like "Wait, you're not joking. Train is back? Whose idea was that, the Dark Priest Shaft?"

(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.

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

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

"it was a normal wedding until this surprise blew everyone away!" was the clickbait turd I stupidly stepped into. My shoes still smell.

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.

The Marketing 5.

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

The Marketing 5.

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, January 17, 2015 10:55 AM Bookmark

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http://cdn.sheknows.com/articles/2013/11/JULES/Adam_Levine_GIF/tumblr_m13dhgNJsR1rqwtl4o1_500.gif

A bit weird that they still bother with the pretense of being a band when their last three albums have all been heavily produced by Benny Blanco and Max Martin and Adam Levine is the only member of the band who contributes to the songwriting. I just would've expected him to have completely elbowed them out by now given that he's pretty much the only person ever focused on in their videos, performances, etc.

too bad Songs About Jane wasn't a bad record at all (with /great/ singles)

I like how they brought in a sixth guy but didn't change the name to maroon six. Maybe it keeps the rest on their toes.

Also can't believe any pop-rock act older than these guys have managed to maintain any top 40 viability by hook or by crook. Even monsters like train and nickelback fell short this year. Rod Stewart stuck around for more than 20 years! Can't any alt act show an Aerosmith like urge to serenade children?

woops, should be "hasn't managed to maintain".

Doesn't matchbox 20 guy still have hits?

this band has a lot of good songs :)

matchbox had a song hit #40 in 2012, thomas' highest charting song with or without them this decade

Thomas and the 'box quietly shifted to the adult contemporary zone right around the millennium, basically right after their original heyday, which seems to have been a smart move given the chart fates of most 90s rock acts. Their chart performance belies their ubiquity in mall soundtracks, etc.; "Unwell" and "Little Wonders" probably get more recurrent play than anything from Yourself or Someone Like You.

Blue eyed soul never dies. It just gets whiter.

Thank you, r3dd1t user Son0vaGlitch, for this mouth swap

http://i.imgur.com/tfebiqz.jpg

hook in this song reminds me of "let's groove"

That is probably better clickbait for me than the actual video, but I think I'm still going to avoid checking it out.

Last summer I asked a certain Pitchforker who lives in L.A. if Levine doesn't represent the industry's ideal pop star, i.e. they want him collaborating with everybody, writing songs for everyone, gets invited to all the parties. "You have no idea," he said.

I'd happily read an Adam Levine Pitchfork column.

I finally figured out that that song I like on the radio that sounds a bit like Bruno Mars is these guys. It took me a while because I couldn't remember any of the lyrics except for "Sho' 'nough" which is kind of hard to search for.

"Sugar," I presume?

they're fully terrible now and have always been at least halfway so, but if someone with taste (/disregard for band egos and label imperatives) were behind their eventual "best of" that shit would be timeless

"Sugar," I presume?

Yes, I misheard the title - due to the high pitch and weird stress on the second syllable, I think. I think I liked it better before I understood the lyrics, which are kind of whatever.

thread title and opening post are aging like fine wine

lol i never read that op, it's wonderful

http://i.imgur.com/U18VrHy.jpg

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?

Yeah, I was wrong about a few things.

Second coming indeed.

one of the best thread-title typos

Yeah everyone knows it's Moron 5.

Saw a funny Neko Case post about last night. Something like "fuck all of you for making such a big deal about half of Janet Jackson's nipple when that greased pig was allowed to perform on TV."

The other funny thing I saw was someone saying Adam Levine looked like he was starring in a remake of Memento if all of his tattoos were reminders of where he left his Juul.

Super Bowl halftime nipple rules feel inconsistent

— Katie Nolan (@katienolan) February 4, 2019

Every woman at the Superbowl party I hit yesterday was drooling over this syphilitic shoe lace

hahahahaha

when he was tossing his clothes into the crowd I shouted "throw the mic next!!!"

https://i.imgur.com/l2wb358.jpg

He's like the singer from Buckcherry with a better manager and, I assume, a worse falsetto.

Adam Levine is the Shia LaBeouf of music.