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

I believe he's since been outsted.

And all these bands, even the Maroon 5, are better than Third Eye Bland.

Agreed.

I think this is Maroon 5's 2nd single. We got some sampler from the album at the college radio station like 2 years ago...its always odd how these sorts of bands catch on (or whatever they do). I think VH1 just played the shit out of their video, much like Jason Mrzrzasa (I don't know if radio was doing this or not). Suddenly there is all these 'funky' white guys and I would like a murder weapon to murder them with.

I checked allmusic and Maroon Five were entitled Kara's Flowers before this with an album under that moniker. Which begs the question which name is more terrible? (x-postish)

Also I am always bothered by allmusic's lack of balls to rip into shitty ass shit like this. Though the review of the last Limp Bizkit album was pretty classic.

Video Hits played the video every week... their album can regularly be sighted in cut-out bins.

Anyway, it's not like a small label can't buy its way up the chart, but it can be a little harder. And Maroon 5, once they got going and found some traction, were able to get onto top 40 radio, where PP and Rooney haven't (although I think Rooney might). Will you be hearing a lot of them for many years to come? Eh. The rest of the album is consistent, they seem to write a decent song, and I hear they're good live. That's how Matchbox 20 started off.

"Octone Records is a NY-based independent record label distributed by BMG Entertainment. The label specializes in developing lifestyle-oriented alternative and rock artists. After initial release, marketing and promotion on Octone, select artists are upstreamed to J Records as part of an exclusive artist development co-venture between J Records and Octone."

Yep, sounds pretty indie to me.

Given PP's 180-degree turn from anything sounding like "California" on their newest album, I think they're aiming for obscurity a la Harvey Danger or the Toadies. Or they're trying to ape Yes New York.

I felt bad because I don't. I didn't tell her that. The worst part was she was trying to do air-guitar. Oh Lord! Awful! She was holding the 'guitar' like a baby!!! I wanted to burst out laughing. I just walked out of the class room and into the hall and headed twords the stairs to reccess instead.

Distro, maybe, but development? Anyway, I find it hard to believe that Maroon 5 made it onto MTV, VH1, radio, etc., without a big, big push ($$$) from a major label. The question is, if their ghost-underwriter dropped out, would they still do as well? I mean, Ruster Root still tours, as do a host of other like-minded bands, but their profile has dropped precipitously. So will I be hearing Maroon 5 for many years to come? Not likely, unless they stay as high-profile as they currently are, which means major label moo-lah.

I begged and pleaded for my mom to change the station when their song came on. BUT FOR SOME REASON< SHE WOULDN'T!!!

What the Hell!!!

I was pissed. I laid down on the backseat of the car and tried to think of something to get my attention away from the god awful song!

I thought you already knew?

What on earth does this mean?

OMG!!

That's awful!! I dislike them even more!

Hahaha...is that true? I can't think of a more sure-fire way to actively discourage me from buying a CD.

You know, I mill the drug. I don´t use the drug.

I have this feeling Ryan Adams wishes he was John Mayer now.

What song will they play?

uhhh

hear anything, rather.

They don't commit that much, the vocals a little bit. Possibly the dreaded Jam. meets John Mayer.

Early copies of Maroon 5's album came w/ wee stickers with praise from John Mayer

Hahaha...is that true? I can't think of a more sure-fire way to actively discourage me from buying a CD.

This type of thing happens all the time - I've seen 'indie' albums praised by the likes of that dude from 3 Doors Down and that dude from Creed. etc. And as Alexn'NYC this allows me to save time by immediately throwing said CDs into the I will never listen to this so long as I live and don't get a bad case of amnesia which would make me forget any music knowledge I might otherwise have accumulated pile.

This is how The Strokes got popular, now.. remember, folks.

So many times I've gotten those two confused.

1) Maroon 5 were about as forgettable a band as has ever existed, and

2) SNL's humor comes from the rare moments it veers off formula, which isn't often. The female stars on the show SUCK, and the men aren't much better.

That one Maroon 5 song, the new single "This love" is actually, surprisingly good. His voice is really good and the song is super catchy, and R&B based and just sounds like a great pop-rock song.

Everything Will Forte did was very funny, but that's not shocking. That guy needs to step up and take over the show, Ferrell-style.

Amy Poehler, Fred Armisen, Will Forte, Tina Fey, Chris Parnell, and Seth Meyers can all be really great when they are allowed to shine.

They really need to get some surefire good hosts, because that's half the problem lately. They need to pull out the big guns and book Christopher Walken again. It'd be good if they got Ray Romano too, since both times he's hosted were well above average.

What are you talking about?

I like "This Love" more, but I don't even really like that.

And they should make Forte the new full-time Bush impersonator (Oh my fucking GOD Hammond is bad at Bush!), and get back to harshly mocking Bush as they did when Ferrell had the role.

I also think I've decided that the current SNL News might be my favorite ever. (Tina Fey is so great on that).

OTM about Hammond's Bush sucking (which is wierd becaue he's usually such a great mimic --- His Donahue on the Xtina episode killed me)....

The cast is the best it's been in years. The problem is that they've been hiring awful hosts and writing the entire show around them. Every sketch is about Xtina or Nick and Jessica or whoever, they aren't writing regular sketches.

An aquaintance of mine who writes for the show said JT was one of the funniest people he'd ever met.

Baldwin's been on a few times (in the mid 90's) and he was always hilarious.

I think that if for some reason Jon Stewart leaves the Daily Show, they should get Tina Fey to be the new host. She'd be great on that show.

Forte and Meyers are definitely the future of this show, though. They need to push them in the spotlight more. Forte's bit last night on Weekend Update was especially funny. His comedy style is strange and somewhat unique, which is what the show really needs right now.

Jimmy Fallon has his moments, but he's more often than not very annoying. Hopefully he'll be gone in a season or two and he'll start making awful movies. Horatio Sanz can be very funny, but any time he is paired with Fallon, you are guaranteed that it's going to be embarassing and unfunny. Chris Parnell has a narrow range, but he's great at what he does. Maya Rudolph and Rachel Dratch can be funny, but too often they rely on silly voices and exaggerated facial expressions to get across a joke, which is a setback.

Fred Armisen is a funny guy, but I get the sense that he is on the wrong show. His best stuff is very subtle and plays off of detail - he's style is a bit like a cross between the Best Show On WFMU and Christopher Guest movies, and I don't think the mainstream is necessarily the most comfortable place for him to be. Sometimes he can do stuff on the show which fits in well - his Prince impression was really funny and accurate - but I think he'll do much better things later on in his career.

Matthew, I do like Fallon on the News, but if he does one more sketch (like the White Stripes one on the Barrymore episode) where it's like "HEY EVERYBODY! I PLAY GUITAR!!! I CAN SING!! HEE HEE HEE!" I'm going to puke....I never thought I'd say "poor-man's Adam Sandler" but there you go...Yeah, and your right about him and Horatio...it's like nobody thinks you guys are as funny as you do....quit cracking up fer chrissakes.

Compared to the high school talent show garbage they air today (which borders tenuously on poop jokes), the earlier incarnations (especially the over-celebrated "golden age" of Belushi/Ackroyd) are high art.

Fallon's Irish guys sketch is basically a variation on Meyers' shitty Scottish jokes, his stoner webcam tv thing with Horatio is a variation on Wayne's World. It goes on and on, really.

Jimmy's funny when he's being himself, but he's so often aping other people's bits or doing unfunny lcd jokes that he rarely gets a chance to do that anymore. Fallon just strikes me as a guy who is desperate to be loved and popular, and that fucks him up more than anything else.

That was funny.

My God, I didn't know the writers were that bad.

Um, Alex, when was SNL some kinda cerbral experimental thing? It's always just been a sometimes funny/sometimes not sketch show....or am I missing something? Was Samurai Chef really mind blowing at the time or something?
Matthew, I do like Fallon on the News, but if he does one more sketch (like the White Stripes one on the Barrymore episode) where it's like "HEY EVERYBODY! I PLAY GUITAR!!! I CAN SING!! HEE HEE HEE!" I'm going to puke....I never thought I'd say "poor-man's Adam Sandler" but there you go...Yeah, and your right about him and Horatio...it's like nobody thinks you guys are as funny as you do....quit cracking up fer chrissakes.

-- M@tt He1geson (matt@game[remove]informer.com), February 22nd, 2004.

First seasons were extremely experimental, muppets, Andy Kaufman, even the samarai chef was a weird thing, no dialogue at all, no explanation, just wackiness.

The first four years was very inventive, and the early 90s is obviously classic, but in terms of just being weird and funny, the late 90s is the peak.

Will Ferrell was easily the best of the bunch, but for god's sakes, man, he CARRIED the rest of the cast. I've been watching the show since it's inception, and it's NEVER been worse than it is today, even in its Lorne-less Rocket/Gottfried era.

Tim Meadows is the most underrated guy in the history of the show. He's a genius of deadpan deliverary, and was very versatile, but he just doesn't have a fanbase for whatever reason. I think he's brilliant, one of the best ever.

He's not well-apreaciated because, apart from a few notable exceptions (Ferrell being the biggest), the SNL "star" players are the least apropriate sketch comedians. The best sketch comedy is based around ensemble and ever since Chevy Chase got huge after the first season, the show has become more a star factory than a sucessful sketch show and it's to the point where they're hiring schmucks like Jimmy Fallon who don't even pretend to have a sense of ensemble.

MAD TV's cast is comprised entirely of those people from high school who weren't really funny but talked loud and made fart noises so they won "class clown" at the end of the year. That, and they always bring in lame b-rate celebrities to help with sketches, and then kiss their asses.

That's not true at all. MadTV is fucking awful, but they've generally hired really talented people who did great work in Chicago. I have no idea how the show is so terrible, but the problem isn't the cast.

I think I liked it so much because I was younger. I still really like it though.

I would say that the problem isn't lack of presence or charisma on the part of the cast, but maybe that they're more geared toward stage than TV. The way both Mad TV and SNL farm out talent hurts the improv/sketch ensemble process. I think the people Mad TV hires are more cognizant of this, so instead of ending up with tons of people climbing all over each other to become celebrities, they churn out a watered down in-between version of good sketch and SNL, which is the opposite side of the same coin.

The only Mad TV person to ever make it to SNL is Jeff Richards, who is a boring guy with a lot of bad characters, and has recently been fired. It's pretty obvious why he didn't fit in.

"Hey, honey, remember that stomach virus I got that nearly killed me? I'll never forget that." Jim Breuer is that kind of memorable.

by the by Mad TV wretched and makes me wretch when I watch it (though they occasionally fall into a good sketch) they equate yelling and repeating annoying quirks w/comedy. also the sketch w/the tall guy that has rosy cheek make up and pretends hes a little kid ('stuart' I think) is awful but they continue to do a sketch w//the character almost every show!

Sigh.

Actually, that makes me feel a lot better. Sophie Muller's one of my favorite videos and I hated the idea that the worst image I'd ever seen was her idea.

Beautifully worded! Cheers!

videomakers.

This is definitely my least favorite flavor of current pop music: sensitive-dude pop-rock.

this sums up much of the appeal of both singles for me, actually

(1) It's a great deal more complicated than that --- and you know it.

(2) "Seperate Ways" is without question Journey's finest hour.

And Journey's finest hour is clearly Steve Perry's "Oh Sherry" - and you know it. ;)

I like "This Love" but not the singer's voice. Instruments which strive for funkiness can be tolerated even if they don't quite manage it, voices which do the same cannot. It's catchy as fuck though.

and Bill Murray (who is up there with Ferrell)

This sentence fragment has no place in creation.

Filet Mignon (which is up there with Steak'ums!)

http://www.mtv.com/shared/media/news/images/m/Maroon_5/sq-with-kanye-studio.jpg

and who knew that our own @d@m shared names with the lead singer?

Some poisons are colorless and tasteless.

Makes sense.

For a full-length feature on Maroon 5, check out "Maroon 5: A Room Of Their Own."

And for a feature on Kanye West, see "Kanye West: Kanplicated."

i think "kanplicated" should become the new something or other.

Agreed. Even though Maroon 5 is absolutely vile.

Makes sense.

-- Ian Christe (ia...) (webmail), May 15th, 2004 3:06 AM. (Ian Christe) (later) (link)

GENIUS

"i heard maroon 5's second single this morning and feel only lukewarm about it. like john mayer and dave matthews but less perverted. which is disappointing b/c in their first song they were promisingly perverted."

I really like their two songs now. I never would have though Lenny Kravitz + Matchbox 20 would work but they really, really do.

Hey the Maroon 5 and the Hoobastank dudes have nasal little whines too!

"me and maroon 5 are doing fine, btw. in fact, we're on good terms. i heard the song again this morning and it turns out it IS perverted. there's this part about an 18-year-old beauty queen, and how he wants to sneak into her back door. ok, maybe those aren't the exact lyrics, but i detected a distinct sliminess."

naughtiest lyric in "This Love"
My pressure on your hips
Sinking my fingertips
Into every inch of you
Cause I know that's what you want me to do

I haven't heard a line that presumptious since Boys II Men's "I'll Make Love to You (...Like you Want me to)".

I don't get it. Was this foreign version of VH-1?

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So were Third Eye Blind. And where are they today?
-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), September 3rd, 2004.

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In our hearts.
-- sundar subramanian (sundar_subramanian200...), September 3rd, 2004.

and our cut-out bins.

Usually, when people say this they mean that the vocals have been over-processed with Auto-Tune, which is an effects plug-in that can be used within Pro Tools and other DAW (digital audio workstation) software.

Basically, Auto-Tune "listens" to the vocal for pitch variations, and will "correct" those variations based on user settings. Use it on a light setting on a singer who's generally got good pitch and it's barely noticeable - the vocal just blends better with the music.

However, the trend in production as of late is to over-crank the settings (which means fewer pitch fluctuations), even on skilled singers. This creates an artificial vibrato that is reminiscent of the old "vocoder" effect, and is VERY distracting once you've heard it a few times.

In dance music, and more recently in dancehall reggae, Auto-Tune is used as a special effect to create robotic pitch slurs a la Cher's "Believe".

For more info, check the manufacturer's site: http://www.antarestech.com/products/auto-tune4.html

VERY noticable in most Robbie Williams ballads where he needs to hold long notes.

Je4nne....are you worried about a sinister underground cabal of priapically challenged men coming to silence you for mocking their ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION? They way you typed it reminded me of the habit of typing Tom Cruise's faith as Sc*ent*logy (for fear of being googled by tenacious church-members with a grudge).

OK, I'm just being an arse now.

xpost: Is that Blender interview online?

Don't know your tastes, Sundar, but if you like 70s soul music at all, go get Songs In the Key Of Life. It's a mind-blower.

yeah but they both hop around and sound like they're gonna start scatting at any second.

The exact same thing happened with that Keane single (dunno what it's called, goes "Oh sympathy, where have you gone? etc etc blah).

When was "Harder To Breathe" released? It feels like it's been around for ever.

Blender: Why should we leave our air-conditioned mansions and come see your band open for John Mayer this summer?

Adam Levine: Because you'll get the most passionate, sincere, blistering, sweaty, sexual show you've ever seen in your life. We never want to appear aloof onstage - otherwise, it's not worth the price of the ticket.

Blender: Have you ever gotten lucky on the beach?

Adam Levine: No. I consider myself a really sexual person, but I like a bed, man. There's no sexier place to be than a sea of sheets, space to do whatever we want and no sand going up our asses. Give me space, give me wine, and give me Al Green. No distractions from the point to have amazing, beautiful, nasty sex.

Blender: Do you put ice cubes down your pants to cool off, or is that just us?

Adam Levine: That's just you. I don't ever want it to cool off down there. I'll lose my fire.

He also refers to buying a 19-pound bag of pot in Amsterdam and admits that his biggest fear is being attacked by a shark.

what the fuck? That song is terrile, "This Love" is where it's at.

Semi-Charmed Life > How's It Gonna Be > Faded >> This Love >>> Harder To Breathe >>> that new Maroon 5 single = Graduate >>>>>> Jumper

See, this is why I said "I hate to say it." I don't like Five for Fighting; I don't even like any other Maroon 5 songs. But "She Will Be Loved" - until I see it in like a commercial for a Freddie Prinze Jr. movie or something, what can I say?

They're not boring, they're EVIL (and not in an interesting Aleister Crowley sorta way). Five for Fighting -- much like Maroon 5 -- are the sonic equivalent of Soylent Green. Soulless product.

Agreed.

"Sunday Morning" and "She Will Be Loved" are both good, though. They really need to embrace their inner soft-rockers rather than fight them.

The correct answer would be Thicke.
http://www.hiponline.com/artist/music/t/thicke/thicke.jpg

AnyHOW, I like it Maroon 5 in a masochistic kinda way. I know as soon as the song has finished, it'll be in my head for the next five frigging days. Which either means it's got a good hook. Or a good hook.

---

(SCENE: La Scala, Milan.)

OPERA DIRECTOR: "Cominci, signore"

THE FIVE FOR FIGHTING GOOFBALL: (to the tune of the famous "Rigoletto" leitmotif)

Non posso levarsi in piedi!
Per volarlo non sono!
Che ingenuo sono giusto fuori!
Trovarmi la parte migliore!

OPERA DIRECTOR: "Bastardo! Partite e mai non ritornate, ladro della tomba! Li ucciderò io stesso se li vedo ancora!"

Britney Spears is probably the worst actor I've ever seen.

'Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine has ditched tennis babe Maria Sharapova because she is a "terrible lover" who refused to move or moan during sex, WENN reports. Levine told Russian magazine Exile "She wouldn't make any noise during sex. I can't tell you how disappointed I was. I really thought, like a lot of guys, that she'd be the loud screaming type. But instead, she just lay there like a dead frog. She even got angry if I started to moan, said it 'ruined her concentration.' It was so disillusioning that I went on Paxil (an antidepressant) for a month afterwards. Really, it was much more of a shock than when I found out there's no such thing as the Easter Bunny." '

chivalry.

I find that story rather implausible.

i assumed it was from 'the onion' or something. but no.

fwiw both Levine and Sharapova appear to be denying that he ever said those quotes.

We're assuming the worst after seeing the video for "Wake Up Call."

lol the exile

Yeah, he's a class act.

Although, color my face red. I started this thread in 2004 -- and holy crow, look at the time, it's late 2007 and we're still talking about them.

"It was so disillusioning that I went on Paxil (an antidepressant) for a month afterwards"

I'm not in the habit of defending Adam Levine but I think someone's been had re: this quote

The videos on the making of "Makes Me Wonder" are interesting.

Actually, come to think of it, "She Will Be Loved" is the only Maroon 5 single I've disliked. They're not half-bad.

and holy crow, look at the time, it's late 2007

Stop it! When people talk like we're in the next year and summer hasn't even ended it's depressing. Many months to go, my friend.

I've always said that Maroon 5 is like a crappy, crappy Hall and Oates for the current generation.

I've always said that Maroon 5 is like a crappy, crappy Hall and Oates for the current generation.

They fucking WISH they were as good as Hall & Oates.

this dude reminds me of patrick bateman

so does Gavin Newsom

I love their last two singles.

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.

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.

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.

...hateful? was he bathing in babies' blood?

He was holding up a copy of Alex's first post to this thread in a "Dewey Defeats Truman"

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.

I hate "Wake Up Call."

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.

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)

Not Truman either

Why do gay people love Maroon 5 singer?

because no one in the history of pop culture has ever overcompensated more.

possibly in the history of time itself

Why do gay people love Maroon 5 singer?

We gay people keep wishing he pens a song worthy of his looks and douchebaggery. He's almost there.

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

Well, Levine projects promiscuity.

Yeah totally - much more than actual hotness oddly.

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.

I see him losing interest in female pronouns too.

feminine pronouns, rather.

Well, Levine projects promiscuity

Does he? I really don't understand why gay people thinks so.

"Wake Up Call" is kind of great, guys.

Does he? I really don't understand why gay people thinks so

All we do is think about sex.

there is no message to their music or videos beyond "women can't stop fucking Adam Levine."

i suppose these visuals and lyrics are picked up on their "gaydar."

there is no message to their music or videos beyond "women can't stop fucking Adam Levine."

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?"

"I Knew The Bride When She Used To Fuck Adam Levine."

Hall and Oates' "I Can't Go For That (Levine You Do)"

I met this guy, I'm pretty sure I get more sex thna him. Also, I am DRUNK.

this dude reminds me of patrick bateman

otm

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?

Every time this thread is revived Alex in NYC's thread-title becomes more lolsworthy.

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.

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.

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.

People who listen to the radio would know:

She Will Be Loved
Harder To Breathe (I think this is what it's called)
Sunday Morning
Makes Me Wonder
Wake Up Call
I Won't Go Home Without You
If I Never See Your Face Again

That's a very big number of radio staples from just two albums.

they sound like a very very sleazy version of The Police.

I like them. Especially the one with Rhianna.

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!

well damn

Somebody was right. and it wasn't AlexNYC...

Alex In NYC is wrong about a lot of things and sadly, he was wrong about this.

It's not my fault our species is largely comprised of slackjawed idiots without taste.

http://pulmaosarss.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/batsignal.png

yay!

Maroon 5!

Oh wait...

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?

"Payphone" was spawned in a deep layer of hell.

Yeah, alas. I was crazy wrong about this.

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.

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.

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.

I'm fairly certain I've never listened to a Maroon 5 song. I'm surviving.

You don't listen to radio then?

Where I first heard of them: http://books.google.com/books?lr=&rview=1&id=6Vy26TGdauEC&q=branch#v=snippet&q=branch&f=false

Click on the page image for it to uncollapse.

Yeah, alas. I was crazy wrong about this.

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.

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

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

!

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.

he has a truly awful voice, like a pan-pipe playing in a bucket

xxp not so much falsetto, more 'knackers caught in gears of a 14 speed racing bike'.

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

― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn

you shouldn't hit women

ordinarily i'd agree but

i'd say i am not even willing to joke about that but i think i just did, so...

lol imagine travelling back in time 15 years and saying, "Brady is gonna win a Super Bowl in 2019 and Maroon 5 will play the halftime show"

"lol imagine travelling back in time 15 years and saying, "Brady is gonna win a Super Bowl in 2019 and Maroon 5 will play the halftime show"

― frogbs"

'and wait until you hear about our president!'

Doc Brown: "OK future boy, so who plays the Super Bowl halftime show in 2019?"
Marty: "Maroon 5"
Doc Brown: "Maroon 5!?!"

Doc Brown: "...so who's President then, Pee Wee Herman?"
Marty: "Ah, actually not someone that qualified..."

Reading the first posts in this thread is like going back to 2015 and reading people dismissing Trump's chances

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

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, February 4, 2019 9:42 AM (seventeen minutes ago)

read this as "worse fellatio"

I heard that was their original band name.

Every time this thread gets bumped, I think about the first time I saw the video for "Creep" by Radiohead and how I confidently told my cousin, "we'll never hear from this group again"

Maroon 5's longevity is way more impressive though, they went from having one song to like...having two

xxp well they do suck bad

Tbf they have been hiring hitmakers for some time now. Right?

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

― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn

you shouldn't hit women

― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Monday, February 4, 2019 9:45 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ordinarily i'd agree but

― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Monday, February 4, 2019 9:46 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was imagining a "snap out of it" 1940s movie cliche type thing

maura's piece kills it:
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/maroon-5-at-the-super-bowl-a-game-everyone-lost/

maron 5

maroon 5 if they were from jersey

how is that guy remotely considered hot

In every Google Image Search result he looks like a douchebag.

i.e. a bag filled with douche

Could come in handy on the go

One of my most sex positive friends posted on FB that seeing Levine grind on his micstand made her put her vagina on suicide watch.

how is that guy remotely considered hot

It could be the muscle tone, the tattoos, the brunette hair, his ability to turn you off. Any of those things could be what makes him hot.

You were an unforgettable Peter Pan. You must play it again soon.

It could only have been your natural timidity that kept you from mentioning it.

https://www.ritzcinema.com.au/SharedContent/ad2c2182-273b-47c9-a3a8-e3f76e73f8b7/gkAvkRf-JkGjpAHixVZVMQ.jpg

with short hair, adam levine looks like he could go into a phone booth and emerge as liev schreiber. watched with a friend that saw maroon 5 open for OAR may years ago in college, and she kept shaking her head, saying "I don't understand. They played all of these songs back then."

imagine having your OAR show, the super bowl of college rock shows, ruined by maroon 5 only to have your super bowl halftime show, the super bowl of halftime shows, similarly ruined 15 years later!

i guess that ew guy was right

.

how is that guy remotely considered hot

how is that guy remotely considered hot

female heterosexuality is a disease with extremely unfortunate symptoms

Also saw the diaper ad he did w Legend. Urgh.

_how is that guy remotely considered hot_

female heterosexuality is a disease with extremely unfortunate symptoms

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy that would open up a chain of sushi restaurants in laundromats.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who would buy a really big trash can to throw all his smaller trash cans into.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who would hire a personal trainer and nutritionist to go with him on vacation to Newark.

when i was watching this my abiding feeling was "this isn't very good, but it's the best that maroon 5 can possibly do"

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who would talk you into getting a massive back tattoo, go with you to the shop, get a phone call just as the needle turned on, say "he really needs to take this," leave and never come back.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who would send back an entire table's meals at a family-owned Turkish restaurant for being "too salty".

despite the tone and tats, there was something very Slim Goodbody about his torso when he peeled off his shirt.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who would start a fistfight at an Ikea over the last shopping cart.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who would punctuate a eulogy with eyebrow waggling.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who gets the last laugh, because he does. I interviewed him (twice!). Here's one exchange, from what may very well have been 15 years ago:

RE: You've said before that your first concert was Warrant. No matter how good you are, and how hard you try, ten years from now you could be the next Warrant.

AL: Exactly. I’m kind of expecting the inevitable downfall. We are just a rock and roll band. We’re having success, but we’re not superheroes. There will be a time when it starts to peter off a bit, and we’re totally ready for that. We’re just hoping it last as long as possible.

RE: Does this mean you've been putting all your money in the bank?

AL: Well, we want to have fun, too. (laughs)

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who would housesit your husky and you'd come back to the smell of one missed indoor dogshit that you can't find anywhere.

Man, even Anthony Kiedis wouldn't get "California" tattooed on his stomach

— Jeremy Gordon (@jeremypgordon) February 4, 2019

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who would walk into a restaurant and *then* take off his shirt, like Sean Penn in "Fast Times." Except he would do it in the back seat of his car and have the driver roll down his window so that the person handing over the food could see it's him in the back, and he'd say "keep the change," wink, and then drive off, and then the guy working the counter would say to himself, wait a minute, he never paid!

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who would housesit your husky and you'd come back to find them in bed drinking coffee together.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who makes an extremely halfhearted effort to stop the elevator door from closing when he sees you running from down the hallway but somehow never manages to hold the button.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy that would launch a line of caffeinated wine.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who has a shower stall that just mists Axe Body Spray.

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

he looks like Max Fischer starring in one of his own high school plays, in the lead role of a lifer at the world's toughest prison.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy that would vacation with the guy from Train.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who buys a Harley and gets all the Harley swag which he wears to all the Harley events he doesn't take the bike to.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who doesn't take his Men's Health magazines into the bathroom because he wants to keep them in good condition.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who builds a special room to age Fireball Whiskey.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy that gifts all his friends and family Maroon 5 shirts for the holidays.

https://pics.wikifeet.com/Adam-Levine-Feet-2937742.jpg

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy that would take a picture of himself making that pose and then post it on the internet.

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/5c585f81973b5279a897095e/2:1/w_790/Adam-Levine.jpg

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy that says "for all intensive purposes."

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who keeps a pen and notebook by his bedside explicitly to keep track of his forearm circumference.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who only liked Genesis after Phil left.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy that keeps a dream diary, but only for sex dreams.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who has strong opinions about sandalwood.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy that hangs out naked in the locker room, talking to his financial advisor.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy that would admire jimmy fallon

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who says he's never been on Reddit but actually has three different logins.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who would start a "men's lipbalm" boutique.

Adam Levine looks like what Jason Schwartzman sees staring back at him when he gazes into a pond during a lonely walk in the park

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who would market translated Japanese toilets.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy that would own several roadside zoos in Texas, for tax purposes.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who gets genuinely angry if he sees you not recycling foil yogurt tops.

Jason Schwartzman looks like what Demetri Martin sees staring back at him when he gazes into a pond during a lonely walk in the park

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who vapes in a sauna.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy that collects luxury cars but doesn't know how to drive.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who rides hard The Simpsons season 24.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy that calls all his bandmates "bro" because he doesn't know their names.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who has never seen a foreign film because he doesn't want to "read a movie."

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who would install a mirror on the ceiling of every room in his house.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who rides hard The Simpsons season 24.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, February 4, 2019

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who gives out Crosley Cruisers w/Maroon 5 vinyls as party favors.

xpost It's going to sound impossible, but I almost said the exact thing, only I was going to say Season 30. (Which my daughter was making fun of yesterday.)

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who rides down to get his mail on a custom Segway.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who uses his cellphone as a walkie-talkie when out in public.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who's five issues short of a complete collection of Penthouse.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who would hunt another person for sport.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who's zero issues short of a complete collection of Maxim.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who is really into Steve Vai, but mostly for his fashion sense.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who would filter the fluoride out of his drinking water.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy that would recommend adam carolla's podcast to his teenaged nephew

Adam Levine looks like the type of guy who podcasts about IPAs.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy that waits to be prompted for his grocery rewards card

https://sports.theonion.com/super-bowl-halftime-show-marred-by-functioning-sound-sy-1832309931

love that we all inherently understand that levine likes the simpsons wrong

Because we know it's true.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who's said the word "Gaydiohead" at least three times in one night.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who places sixth in a charity windsurfing race.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who is actively negotiating a loan to buy a Banksy.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy that would go to his hair stylist and ask for "The Rachel."

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who saw Springsteen's Super Bowl show and thought it would be cool to crotchplant on a TV camera.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who eats a handful of Runts at the studio and spits out the bananas on the carpet.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who rents out his house for porn shoots.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who has a picture of Bono in the center of his vision board.

Moran 5

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy actively searching for AOC nudes.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who would have his swimming pool moved.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who would perform for the troops on the Mexican border.

More like Ultra Maroon 5

https://i.pinimg.com/236x/73/61/26/736126aae287e00520f883107a842200--bugs-bunny.jpg

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who thinks campaigning for a third Sex and the City movie makes him a feminist.

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who buys class rings at pawn shops "for an art project."

Adam Levine looks like the kind of guy who thinks it's a crime Huey Lewis hasn't gotten the box set treatment.