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

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

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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)