It's weird to think that a band that entered mass consciousness as a glossy Top 40 act would someday become so much more of an assembly line of cheesy pop hits that the early stuff would retroactively be considered far more authentic and well made, but that's where we are. Luke, Stargate, Rodney Jerkins, Sia, Charlie Puth, Julia Michaels, Diplo, Ricky Reed, Cirkut, and many, many more. Since "Moves Like Jagger," Maroon 5's records have more or less followed the formula of that song, with a band that used to write and perform all its tracks ceding most of its work to Max Martin, Ryan Tedder, Benny Blanco, Dr. Maroon 5's third album Hands All Over had just more or less bricked, and they saved it with a new bonus track single, launched on "The Voice," that was less a band recording than Levine backed by programmed track from a team of pop producers. Maroon 5's career can effectively be bifurcated into the period before 2011, when Levine began appearing on "The Voice," and after.
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And it wasn't even that surprising, because Levine was always the movie star-handsome frontman, the only recognizable member of the band, and since he began starring in NBC's "The Voice" in 2011, he's basically a household name. No mention of Maroon 5 whatsoever despite the fact that Levine's musical output under his own name consists of like, a couple hit feature appearances and a soundtrack nobody bought. Tracks 20 and 21 from Red Pill Blues (2017)Ī year or two back, I saw a billboard for a Top 40 radio station bearing the names and faces of three people: Adele, Taylor Swift, and Adam Levine. Tracks 13, 14 and 15 from Hands All Over (2010) Track 12 from Call And Response: The Remix Album (2008) Tracks 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 from It Won't Be Soon Before Long (2007) Tracks 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 from Songs About Jane (2002) Track 1 from The Fourth World by Kara's Flowers (1997) Maroon 5 deep album cuts ( Spotify playlist):ġ4. And they're kind of a classic example of a singles-driven act whose albums aren't necessarily taken seriously, which, despite some mission drift towards more credible album artists over the years, is kind of the point of this series. Next month, Maroon 5 will perform the halftime show at the Super Bowl, which seems like a culminating moment of their long journey to become one of the biggest acts in pop music (or, at least, the biggest one that wouldn't say no to the NFL out of solidarity with Colin Kaepernick).
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