Maroon 5's last few albums sound like they weren't meant to be actively listened to, but instead to be put on the grocery store playlist to torment the workers. I should know, I worked at a grocery store and Maroon 5 was in the daily rotation.
basically, the shopping mall must be the only place where this trash is on rotation. Except for if you don't know who's singing you'll never guess, it's a special level of generic... shoppingeric.
@@gleebybooeryou mean the performance that was so bad it was downright disrespectful in the biggest festival in Chile? (Besides the nasty comments backstage?) Nah it wasnt the worse thing to ever happend but we still don't like em
@@anaisg.d.8925 No I actually agree with you with the context. I should have googled the name of the festival because if it is the most important festival in the country I agree they should have known their audience and performed better. Should have done my research!
The funniest thing is that we still haven't forgiven him, and there's still comments about that event in his social media posts lmao Don't underestimate us Latinos. We can be petty af
I'm just shocked that Maroon 5 are still making music. Surprised Adam Levine hasn't just done away with the rest of the band and launched a solo career instead.
I'm not gonna lie, not very true. I can name a couple of such bands that are still considered legendary with no doubts. Russian band "Kino" is considered perhaps one of the most primary characteristics of the country and Tsoi (the lead singer) is known pretty much in the whole world and by everyone I the country. But... there's a reason I specifically said Tsoi, as I personally (and im pretty sure no one I met in life either) don't even know who the other people are lol. Most Kino songs are referred to as just "Tsoi songs". Idk what the other guys are
I think it’s kind off crazy how Jesse Carmichael went from arguably the 2nd most important member of the band to just a dude who lightly twiddles with a guitar in the back corner of live shows.
Met the original line-up (and got their autographs!) at a Kiss radio summer concert in 2004. I was newly a fan and went down the line telling each of the guys in the band how much we were all listening to the album in my college dorm. They all acknowledged me in some way, saying something appreciative, smiling, sharing energy--save for Adam Levine, who was wearing dark sunglasses even though we were in a fully sided tent--and simply signed my CD, and then took one finger, and silently and slowly slid the CD across the table at me, without a word or facial expression. I never bought any of their music since.
Sounds like the guy that reads philosophy a little too literally and then feels superior because he can remeber Kierkegaard by heart and cannot help but put his "knowledge" in random convos.
Maroon 5 only had their debut and were actually a decent band at the same time Nickelback released songs like "Photograph" and "Rockstar". We didn't know they would end up that bad.
Panic tried to do the same thing, but it seems like it didn't work nearly as well..... possibly because his voice is very alt-rocky whereas Adam's voice already sounds like a weird robot.
Their downfall started with Adam being such a douchey dude and the way he treats his fans. There are plenty of videos of Adam being condescending and treating bad his Latin fans while touring Latin America. There is also a video of him referring to Chile as a s#itty country. It doesn't help that they started to make malls and grocery stores music.
@mimmikibilly That reminded me. I was watching a Noel Gallagher interview and someone from Maroon 5 introduced himself to him and said he was a big fan and that his music was a big influence. When he learned that the guy is in Maroon 5, he called the band sh#t and asked him "How the f did you get Maroon 5 from what I'm doing??" Which...fair question. Felt kinda bad for the guy, I don't know which M5 member it was. He knows he's not doing what a real musician is doing. I guess the money helps.
Back in like 2016 I went to my first concert ever and it was Maroon 5’s concert in Hong Kong….. and then I immediately stopped being a fan Bro was just acting so different in person than on screen
@@crabmaster9671 Maroon 5 were only chosen to play at the Super Bowl that year because everyone else said no due to the NFL's flip-flopping stance on the Black Lives Matter movement, during a year full of protests nationwide. On top of that, this was the year Stephen Hillenberg, the creator of SpongeBob died, which led to a huge campaign to have "Sweet Victory" from the fan-favorite Band Geeks episode played at half-time, and the NFL responded by playing the opening bit of the song from the episode before cutting to Travis Scott. Lastly, Adam Levine performed shirtless for part of it, which led to people comparing it negatively to Janet Jackson's infamous Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction that effectively ended her mainstream career, while Levine was allowed to get away with it.
A Chilean here. I think another one of the reasons the band went downhill was because of their AWFUL concert at Festival de Viña, in Chile. They went from beloved to HATED in this country because they didn't respect the audience of the festival. The thing about Viña is that is works like The Super Bowl in USA, but in this case, IT'S TRANSMITED TO THE WHOLE CONTINENT OF SOUTH AMERICA. Whenever I talk with my classmates or other people about Maroon 5, they only remember that horrible concert and swear to never listen to them again, same for any Latino in South America, they managed to enrage a whole continent, wow. (Edit: in the replies I added a more detailed answer to what happened)
@@Kiddingyoumust sorry for the late reply, here is the answer (remember English is not my first language, so please excuse any weird phrasing) The "Festival de Viña del Mar" is an international competition, similar to Eurovision, but the crowd is the one who chooses which trophy they give to the featured artist, the highest one in a golden bird (I don't know how to write Gaviota in English, but is the simbol of the region that hosts the festival). From what I remember, Maroon 5 managed to get the love from the crowd, and earned the highest trophy, but what they did was to curse it. This was all found out later, thanks to footage from the staff members who had to prepare the event, I think it's on RUclips, search "Maroon 5 Festival de Viña detrás de cámaras" . This was the part that is easy to explain, but now comes the parts that involve Chilean Culture: the crowd from this festival is famous for being VERY selective, it actually was given the name of "The Monster". For an unknown reason, Maroon 5 didn't sing well, and the crown didn't like that, but still gave them the trophy. Another tradition is that if the crowd yells "¡Otra! ¡Otra!" (Another song! Another song!) The artist MUST sing another one, the whole theme of the festival are the interactions with The Monster and gain the love of the crowd, but yet again, Maroon 5 didn't do that.
Or worse, with the rise of musicians using AI. M5 could be renamed Adam Levine only in each song, and his band members replaced by AI instrumentals and lyrics. Since they want to be on trend and look "fresh" for the younger audience. The other band members will be pissed but they will happily sue, get their percentage and create their own band, instrumentals only Rock, ALt Rock, and Rock Jazz. And leaving Adam in the dust, his music is declining anyways. I love listening to true instrumental music on the highest volume, it's frickin relaxing! I would def buy their album!
Adam could've easily had a great solo career like a decade ago, but either due to lack of confidence or wanting to keep helping his homies eating off them royalties (which would explain so many people joining the band during the sellout years), he decided to just keep making records as Maroon 5. Now though.... yeah, I don't think he has enough clout to pull that off unless he WILDLY switches things up and people actually like it.
@thequadrupleagent4130 Prior band members have disbanded, and some of them found great success going on solo careers. Don't worry, I won't bore you with long details. Others have found success in recording music and even writing music for upcoming musicians. I can see three of the guys from M5 doing this and getting great revenues. Adam alone could not write a whole album by himself which is why he had to hire from outside to help. Reason why his music started to go downhill. Edit: Lack of confidence, for sure. That's just my take 😄 👍
@@thequadrupleagent4130Yea if Adam was going to go solo it should have been between that hands all over or even overexposed era when Adam was basically everywhere
@@hameley12 That explains a lot honestly, he's creatively bankrupt which is why he's been leaning on outside songwriters and various members despite their sound being so artificial. I already knew PJ Morton made great music outside of maroon 5, and the guitarist who quit during overexposed i'd imagine was far too good to keep attaching his name to the band.
Funny story: I was at a bowling alley and whatever song that had the "howl" in the middle, the dj was playing it paused the track before tbe howl and said "I know we have some animals in the room tonight, let me hear you." And when the howl came not a single soul did it and the dj just came back with "sounds great, guys" as defeated as possible.
lmaoooo, noooooo, that's hilarious, but I genuinely feel bad. it reminds of when in school the show choir performed "shut up and dance" and paused the bridge to tell us to "stand up and dance" for like a solid 20 seconds and not one person did 😭😭😭😭
I get that people make fun of Maroon 5 a lot for not sounding like a real band and just sounding like Adam Levine ft. a backing track but this isn't unique to them. A lot of big pop bands end up falling into this trap due to them trying too hard to not have even a hint of rock influences in their sound. A lot of modern Imagine Dragons, The Script and One Republic songs have this same problem.
I think what's really frustrating and sad about this band is that they are genuinely "talented", they just keep positioning their inauthentic selves to the medium. M5 both explicitly stated that their kind of music was meant to chase trends, but the big difference is that they were on constant pressure, both personally and professionally, and that influenced their songs. The Fourth World's final track "Captain Splendid" was created during Jesse Carmichael's parents divorce, "Harder to Breathe" is a middle finger to their record label who wanted them to make more songs than they already needed to, and the entirety of "Songs About Jane" was Adam Levine venting out his frustrations, desires, and love for her ex-girlfriend, Jane Herman. Plus when SAG initially released, they never released any singles of any kind, just after a month. They were kind of hanging by a thread at that time (plus it was their second chance), and it would only take them a year-and-a-half to be finally recognized. But it also showed a core problem in their composing, and in the music industry in general. They were too successful that there was no stricter creative input or limitations to their future work. It's the same problem I have with Christopher Nolan and his most recent films. His early work were all dialogue-driven, adult thrillers (Memento/Insomnia/The Prestige) made with fierce creativity over what they had on the table. Until he made Tenet with a whopping $150 million budget and going all-out with no substance in-between, alienating the audience over what the fuck is going on. Pressure creates diamonds. You have to make it to break it. And that's no longer the case fore M5. They already have the connections, clout, money, etc, leaving their work on a listless pedestal, generic. And it sad because, they are really genuinely "talented", but they just had too much power with their own success that they no longer recognized what made them special in the first place. It's like being born poor and later becoming a billionaire leaving your parents and relatives in the dump. And we are those parents. They are now posing a mask to hide everything they feel embarrassed of, like the Kara's Flowers era. They can still make good music, they just need to go back to their roots, restrain themselves, and giving them a reality check. Don't be like Coldplay where they really sold-out for the mainstream. Be like Radiohead where they make and experiment music on their own terms and gaining a strong following over time, both critically and commercially. It's up to them whether they would like to or not. But who am I kidding, Adam is just shilling some money from lonely housewives amirite?
This is a really well-thought-out assessment of everything, and you are so right to bring up Coldplay. I CONSTANTLY think about how good Coldplay's first 4 albums were, but ESPECIALLY their debut 'Parachutes' it's got so much heart and angst in it, ugh. It pains me to know that we will never get that sound back from either of them unless they take that hard long look and wonder if less money is worth it :///
Wow, this is so eloquently written and right on target. Your point about this story applying in any number of ways is well put. Thanks for taking time to share.
@pip-pip5029 but then he made Oppenheimer, a really great dialogue driven court drama of sorts. Omg I love Nolan for this movie! Nolan got on track again lol
I don’t know why but Adam Lavine feels like Michael Buble’s evil alternate universe version that slipped through a space rift. Like he’s the Owlman to Mike’s Batman. It just doesn’t feel like he belongs here.
That quote from Jennifer's Body "do you want to be a big loser or be rich and awesome like the guy from Maroon 5?" ages even better every year that Maroon 5 becomes considered less cool
@@eatatjoes6751 I wouldn’t say that, I love 2000s rock and metal. I would say they are a band that is very talented but one they started chasing trends they fail miserably
@@eatatjoes6751 That would imply they're still making 2000's-sounding music, which would be a step up from the soulless garbage they've been churning out for the past decade. Modern Maroon 5 is music made to fill a quota. There's zero artistry or passion behind it, just people robotically making a product because they want money.
Adam being the center of Maroon 5 is not bad. Chris Martin was the front and center of Coldplay and they still thrive these days. All of Maroon 5's missteps along the way are all the same steps Coldplay took to stay relevant. The only difference is the members stayed together and they still make songs together, and I love the for that. It's such a shame as to what happened to Maroon 5.
Coldplay is on an incredibly similar level of soulless elevator nothingmusic and I will always stand by that. And whenever a band is only known for one person and the rest are just some people on stage, you know it went wrong.
@@MaialeenYou can differentiate a real band from a fake one from how their fandom treats them. Fans of real bands like Green Day and MCR and Radiohead acknowledge and make jokes about each member of the band. Fans of fake bands, on the other hand, only talk about their singer. I GUARANTEE you that if you talk to someone who says they're a "big fan" of Maroon 5, they couldn't name a single member who isn't named "Adam Levine".
@@Dylan-FrostAs an one of big Radiohead fan since high school, i agree we always make fun and bunch of memes of Radiohead member especially Jonny, Ed and Thom
“Mom rock” is soooo accurate. My mom loved maroon 5 WAYY MORE then me. She took us to 2 shows. I was just happy to get to see neon trees and owl city open😅.
Took two years to get to me, but finally the algorithm served up a perfect juicy plate of “special interest video essay”. I picked Maroon 5 as my fav band when I was 8 and it’s been a sunk cost fallacy ever since 😭 the way their music has soundtracked my life ought to mean something in therapy. I always get in their top .001% of listeners because I’m the only bitch with all the bsides in my liked songs. I don’t even listen to the latest album, it helped me finally cut the cord 😭
i don’t give a shit ab how bad their new stuff is, bsides, hands all over, won’t be soon before long, and songs ab jane are so good i will forever defend this band. I like a lot of overexposed as well, it’s just so hard to get the same vibe anywhere else.
@@hampter8992 you’re the first person I’ve ever seen mention the bsides and that’s how I know you’re on my level 🥲 I remember I finally got to see them live during the Red Pill Blues tour, front row, first night of the tour. All of their albums have really had their special moment in my life and that felt like the cumulation of all of it in a beautiful way! Like, I still know every words by heart!!
Meg’s boyfriend: “Hey, Meg, I got you something for our three-week anniversary.” Meg Griffin: “Wow, a Maroon 5 CD!” Meg’s boyfriend; “Yeah, I remember how you told me you liked terrible music.”
I feel like that's just what happens when you challenge yourself to raise 1 octave higher with each album. It's like reverse puberty, voice cracks and all!
I am fascinated by the fact that there are people who go to Maroon 5 concerts like it's a real band. Do they have people who are genuine fans? It's like being a stan of commercial jingles or something.
@@Maialeen I don't understand where you're coming from. They are still musicians who put out enjoyable songs, of course people want to see them. Yes, it's not gonna be the same as a Metallica concert or something, but they are still musicians. Not everyone listens to music to think about it or reflect on music theory or some shit
@@rafaelcoppe5900 I'm glad then that the only thing that matters is that I understand where I'm coming from and that my perception of this "band" is what is relevant for the comment I made, and that what is irrelevant is that you felt an overwhelming need to defend the right of the masses to give their money to musicians who aren't musicians. You don't need to worry, they'll always be able to spend cash on adam levine and some dudes they can't name.
Oh Lord the downfall of Maroon 5 hurts so much. At least Overexposed sounded kind of like an album, though really I blame that on the fact I hadn't heard them since I went to the mall once in 2002.
Bands who have Maroon5-ed in 2024. Nobody knows the band member and they have minor contribution to the album. - Imagine Dragons (Dan Reynold's solo project) - OneRepublic (Ryan Tedder's solo project) - Coldplay (Chris Martin's solo project) - twenty one pilots (tyler's solo project)
I don’t twenty one pilots is good in this particular discussion. It’s only two guys plus Josh definitely gets his time to shine and contributes heavily, unlike the aforementioned bands
This is one of the most cathartic videos I have ever seen. I have been having this conversation with myself for the better part of a decade now and to see all my thoughts presented in a very entertaining and funny way made my day. UGH I love your channel man!!!!
@@GregCubed Todd in the Shadows called this when they first released Moves like Jagger and ever since he's been putting them on his worst list until like last year where they finally stopped charting.
Maroon 5 is such a weird case. Because I genuinely like their first 5 albums. All of them have some really good songs. And songs about jane and it wont be soon before long show the band can write iconic music if they want to. But they've just given up. They don't write their own music anymore, and don't even pretend to be a real band. The latest stuff is just generic and forgettable. The band doesn't have an identity. And those songs could be made by any producer. Oh well I'll always have their old stuff i guess.
Story time...the year was 2001 and I was working at a Best buy in the Atlanta area. One of the guys I was friends with, worked in the Geek Squad department (it wasn't called geek squad back then) any way, one day he comes up to me and hands me a burned CD. On it was Maroon 5's "Songs about Jane" but not the version that we got in the stores...SOMEHOW this Man had FOUND the album online BEFORE it was sanatized to death by the record label and it IS the superior version of the album! Such a good album!
@-8h- I just...I can't....agree...lmao I'm SO sorry to people who enjoy them. XD I, and this is 100% personal taste, just cannot stand the sound of their music, their lyrics, their stage presence. All of it just disinterests me to the point that I thought of it as "hate" when I was a child. Then they shifted into the sell out pop era and it was so much easier to dislike them since that wasn't a genre I enjoyed in general. I don't think their music is BAD, I don't think they are untalented artist, I don't think their shitty preformers. it's like I have this core character trait on my DnD sheet or something. "Hates Maroon 5." I also cannot stand Train or the Plain White T's. And something in my brain connects all three of them, like...a holy trinity of "ugh, skip it." Zero hate on people who like them! Like what you like! Be good people, all that!
They were never a great band, or even a *good* one, but I found them at least tolerable early on. Overexposed is when they became aggressively bad for me.
The Weezer connection is shockingly more deep than you think, Kara’s Flowers’ last song was on a compilation album dedicated to the late presidents of the Weezer fan club.
somehow, this video did manage to become dated, because while maroon 5 are definitely dead, i don't even think they have radio presence (but then again i'm british, and don't know what the amarican stations are playing) i still hear people talk about their presence in pop music, their impact that still lingers on the charts. but it's not their presence, it's the producers they worked with who are still working with other artists. maroon 5 has been reduced, not to the members, not to a member, but to the producers they worked with. in the end, none of the members mattered, not even adam lavine himself.
13 years ago I heard of Maroon 5 and loved Moves like Jagger and... the other songs. Today, I learned Maroon 5 is not just a name for Adam Levine, but they are a legit band that have been around for a long time.
I'm glad there is someone out here who is as frustrated with the downfall of Maroon 5 as I am. Their first 3 albums were on repeat for me from 2003 til 2011. It genuinely hurt me when Overexposed came out 😅😅😅
I was waiting you mentioned their incident in Viña del mar "performance" where Adam insult their Chileans fans and made all the country of Chile hate him and his band.
Songs About Jane was one of the most exciting albums to ever launch on pop radio. Catchy but unique, edgy without being cringe, dripping with talent and possibility.... Now I know *what* went wrong, but I still can't fathom *why.*
Same exact thing that happened to Coldplay. At least musically. Undeniably good emotional pop rock for like 3 or 4 albums and then someone gave them the idea to do EDM festival trash for the money and they've never been the same.
it's officially been "a couple years" and i can confidently say this video is just as relevant as when it came out side note, this video reminded me of how when i was in elementary school me and my daycare friends started a maroon 5 cover band where we used building blocks for instruments. i was the drummer and my favorite song to play was sunday morning
Same. It’s just so obnoxious while also saying absolutely nothing at the same time. It’s sure is catchy but its also drab at the same time somehow? It’s the bigges of insults to so erroniously misuse mick jagger’s name on this trashy good for nothing annoying song when the one thing he hasn’t done during his long life is be this boring, bland and saying nothing. Truly hate this song with all i have
Also, the song "Middle Ground" was probably the biggest flop of their entire career so I predict that they're going to reinvent themselves completely if they ever make music again
Actually yes they are! In the recent appearance they had, they’ve said there making original stuff again with JUST the band and no outsiders. Middle Ground was honestly a step in the right direction and i hope from then on we see a return to how they used to be
@@vvx600 I can see this going either two ways: either it becomes a trainwreckord (todd in the shadows reference) where the public is just baffled and has no use for an actually good maroon 5 again. or, possibly it does well because we're in a Y2K nostalgia era where alt rock and punk have made a considerable comeback. But, I'd definitely be down for them not sucking for once. I heard adam levine's cover of purple rain in 2016 or so and it was actually pretty good, mainly because Adam can still shred a guitar which I was NOT expecting.
@@vvx600 The funny thing is, their one attempt at making traditional country music for the first Hunger Games soundtrack is probably the sound of theirs that's most in line with current pop trends so if they wanted to be back on top, they'd have to do some more of that.
@@thequadrupleagent4130 replying to both, i think the band can still put out an amazing performance and album if they really cared and did what they want without thinking about appealing to the charts. If you check one of the recent M5 live from a few years ago American Express performance. Adam can still sing amazingly well and the band can still put out amazing performances. Its certainly more of them needing to follow their passion than charts
@@vvx600 Yeah, honestly at this point they probably don't need the charts. Every member of Maroon 5 can probably pay for a decent house off the royalties of She Will be Loved, Girls like You and Moves like Jagger alone. so yeah, if they can still rock or at least make better music than the souless stuff they're putting out: i'm down for that. Whether they actually go that direction is another question.
I agree with you for the most part but I just don’t think they ever ‘sold out’ - they wanted to play what was popular and chase trends from the very beginning (which explains why they were a grunge band in 1994). It’s just that in the era they first came up in, bands playing live instruments were still cool. Their pop rock stuff was just as cookie cutter and trend chasing, but it was the era RIGHT BEFORE you could literally fix every note and every beat in audio software, so early Maroon 5 does have some humanity in it, but so did every band from that era, even the corny ones. Maroon 5 embraced whatever trend came along through their entire career. There was no ‘turning point’, there was just a point where you as a listener stopped messing with whatever the new trends in music are. And there’s no shame in that dude! It happens to all of us eventually.
Honestly I can’t remember which era of Maroon 5 I grew up with. I really did like all the songs I did listen to. Hearing the recent news about the singer of Maroon 5 makes me upset.
Honestly as someone who was always a fan of SAJ and IWBSBL, I always wondered how this downfall happened but wasn't as involved with M5's origins as others so thank you for putting this video out! I'm amazed how much you put into this video and your humor! Idk how the algorithm is barely recommending this to me 2 years after you released it but I'm glad it did! Subscribed for sure :) Also I do hope you get around to the P!ATD video! I was a MASSIVE P!ATD fan so unfortunately, I was there to witness all of it, and it still breaks my heart to this day. I know you'll do the story justice if it's released!
id like to think there is a alternate reality where after the first 2 albums they went more and more into the jazzy soul sound and became a prog fusion band.
What was PJ Morton even do as a band member since Overexposed? All the while, he was regarded as one hell of an underrated solo artist himself. To me, it was like a wasted ammunition when you look at the current state of Maroon 5. Identity loss...
I see maroon 5 like i see coldplay and its sad cause i adore the early coldplay records, rush of blood is a masterpeice imo but they just stoped being an alt band and started chassing trends
Maroon 5 is now a verb. Other bands who Maroon Fived are Coldplay, Fitz and the Tantrums, Imagine Dragons and shockingly 21 Pilots, whose whole existence was an emo alternative pop music to Maroon 5.
Yep just got this in my recommended. I'm a bit older and got into these guys when their debut was their only album... My fall off from following them literally follows your exact call outs. Great vid
If it makes you feel better: when you said Moves Like Jagger was on Hands All Over, my first thought was no it wasn’t. So you are not the only one who remembers.
3:28 “in 1994” WEEZER 4:26 oh, fuck… Adams poor sweater But it is funny that weezer and maroon 5 have kinda similar stories, from borderline grunge bands, to their own little weird thing to pop rock bands
@@dinkarfowkar999they also really are MAJORLY inconsistent. White album by them was pretty good and OK Human. Besides that that’s the only modern Weezer I’ve really enjoyed.
Their paths actually intertwine a bit more than you think, Kara's Flowers and Weezer's fan clubs were ran by the same people. They both played live with Ozma, as well.
Weird that I actually liked Songs About Jane once. The thing about Maroon 5 is that they could be used as a literal definition of ‘’sellouts’’. When people talk about sellouts, THIS is what they mean, not signing to major labels or having slightly better production. Also, I do think not having instrumentation loses something. Even Moves Like Jagger could have been played by an actual band using actual fucking instruments, but they chose not to. If a song is good, it’s good - you don’t need to make it sound like every other dance pop tune to make it succeed. Look at half the hit songs of the last 30 years, the weird one hit wonders of the 90s. If your song is good, it’s good, don’t need to make it dance pop and use drum machines to do it. Just became the Adam Levine show, fuck that guy.
TBH they’ve always been trend chasers. When grunge was popular they were doing grunge. When Weezer was popular, they did Weezer. I would say they had a unique sound they still were riding trends. Then when they got popular enough, they hopped on the pop team.
Dont care didn’t read, stan maroon 5
True bestie
I dare you stan Don’t Wanna Know, an awful song
You have god awful taste
@@RJISI like that song
Hell yeah
Maroon 5's last few albums sound like they weren't meant to be actively listened to, but instead to be put on the grocery store playlist to torment the workers. I should know, I worked at a grocery store and Maroon 5 was in the daily rotation.
Yep... Sounds about right.
There should be financial compensation for the emotional damages
basically, the shopping mall must be the only place where this trash is on rotation. Except for if you don't know who's singing you'll never guess, it's a special level of generic... shoppingeric.
Sooooooooooo true
I didn’t know I needed to see a video about Maroon 5. But it turns out I really did.
I liked Maroon 5 until Adam howled in "Animals". My life has been on a steady decline since then.
Also 14:02 caught me off guard and got me good lol
My life’s been on a steady decline since before Maroon 5 even formed
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I can excuse it in Doin’ Dirt but Animals is where I draw the line lol
😅😅😅😅
I found the one person who knows all of the Maroon 5 member’s names.
Great video btw! Your channel is super underrated and you deserve way more subs
And that includes the members of Maroon 5.
Maroon 5 ? more like Adam Levine AND The Maroon 5
Adam Levine, Atum Leverne, Ada M. Leveen. Adam Leeveen oh and of course Adem Living
there are dozens of us I'll have you know
I just realised this is 2 yrs old, only had it recommended now, great vid
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Same W algorithm 🫠
2002 Adam Levine: Sophisticated and Talented
2022 Adam Levine: *Chipmunk Man Cheats On His Wife*
Yes. Basically history of the whole band.
chipmunk man 😂
as a chilean person i feel legally obliged to mention that maroon 5 became chile's enemy after they were awful at Festival de Viña a few years ago
a bad concert was really that big of a deal for them?
@@gleebybooeryou mean the performance that was so bad it was downright disrespectful in the biggest festival in Chile? (Besides the nasty comments backstage?) Nah it wasnt the worse thing to ever happend but we still don't like em
@@anaisg.d.8925 No I actually agree with you with the context. I should have googled the name of the festival because if it is the most important festival in the country I agree they should have known their audience and performed better. Should have done my research!
@@gleebybooer it wasnt that they were technically bad, adam levine was insuferable that day just being disrespectul and immature left and right
The funniest thing is that we still haven't forgiven him, and there's still comments about that event in his social media posts lmao
Don't underestimate us Latinos. We can be petty af
I'm just shocked that Maroon 5 are still making music. Surprised Adam Levine hasn't just done away with the rest of the band and launched a solo career instead.
I honestly thought he had.
He did. And he failed spectacularly, so he went crawling back to the band.
@@WobblesandBean Ohhhh, ok.
he may as well have
Maybe they collect a paycheck for doing almost nothing......and do more musical stuff in their spare time lol
Any time a band becomes “the frontman and any other amount of unnameable people”, you know everything went wrong.
bloc party 😢
Panic! At the Disco basically
I'm not gonna lie, not very true. I can name a couple of such bands that are still considered legendary with no doubts.
Russian band "Kino" is considered perhaps one of the most primary characteristics of the country and Tsoi (the lead singer) is known pretty much in the whole world and by everyone I the country. But... there's a reason I specifically said Tsoi, as I personally (and im pretty sure no one I met in life either) don't even know who the other people are lol. Most Kino songs are referred to as just "Tsoi songs". Idk what the other guys are
Hey man Paramore never sucked and a staggering amount of people don't know the names of the members of blur
I only really know the singers in Evanescene and Cascada lol… I thought it was always like that.
Maybe the true Maroon 5 band members were the friends we made along the way
I guess that explains why I have no friends 😔😔
@@GregCubedor five of them.
❤
That sounds all kinds of wrong
30:39 @@kmhkennedy
I guess being a 'multi-instrumentalist' in Maroon 5 means there's a wide spectrum of instruments that you don't play.
a glass 3/4 empty
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I think it’s kind off crazy how Jesse Carmichael went from arguably the 2nd most important member of the band to just a dude who lightly twiddles with a guitar in the back corner of live shows.
Amen!
I saw them two weeks ago and he was prominent
Sam farrar's father, John was the writer and producer for most of olivia Newton-john's biggest hits
@@TonysMusic1974 cool
And how Ryan Dusick dodged a bullet by becoming a mental health therapist after injury from constant tours.
Brendon urie 🤝 Adam Levine
What happened to brendon urie?
@@Empty-Mask all the members left because of him and so for years he was a solo act with backup and still went by “panic at the disco”
@@awlomthesheepermenthat said, Death of a Bachelor is a fantastic album.
@@adamgreenspan4988the last good one, I'd argue
At Least Brendon Urie still made actually good music all the way till the breakup of Panic! At The Disco in 2023
Met the original line-up (and got their autographs!) at a Kiss radio summer concert in 2004. I was newly a fan and went down the line telling each of the guys in the band how much we were all listening to the album in my college dorm. They all acknowledged me in some way, saying something appreciative, smiling, sharing energy--save for Adam Levine, who was wearing dark sunglasses even though we were in a fully sided tent--and simply signed my CD, and then took one finger, and silently and slowly slid the CD across the table at me, without a word or facial expression. I never bought any of their music since.
Sounds like the guy that reads philosophy a little too literally and then feels superior because he can remeber Kierkegaard by heart and cannot help but put his "knowledge" in random convos.
Maybe he was tired. Musicians work at least 3-5 times harder than the average person.
To be fair it might have been because Adam’s busy or that he was shy early in his career, but it could be any other reason
I always found it funny that many people hated on Nickelback when Maroon 5 was around😅
Because we forgot Maroon 5 existed
Maroon 5 only had their debut and were actually a decent band at the same time Nickelback released songs like "Photograph" and "Rockstar". We didn't know they would end up that bad.
Nickelback was meh back then. Maroon 5 I thought were going to be cruising like The Killers. Nope!
Thank you
Maroon 5’s entire reason for being was to sell Adam Levine posters to fat chix at the mall. Not so Nickelback. Definitely not.
Ryan Dusick is the luckiest man, dodged one hell of a bullet. In hindsight, those injuries flaring up again was a blessing in disguise.
he’s a licensed therapist now. probably also gets a bunch of royalties from songs about jane.
And thanks to Adam Levine's spotlight hogging, he also gets to enjoy lifetime anonymity, to boot. The man has won at life.
Depends. The money from selling out and producing a bunch of mainstream songs that get radio play can't be bad.
He's dead
I can’t believe Maroon 5 is actually still a band and not a one man band like Panic! At the Disco is (or I guess was because Brendon Urie retired?)
Panic tried to do the same thing, but it seems like it didn't work nearly as well..... possibly because his voice is very alt-rocky whereas Adam's voice already sounds like a weird robot.
@@thequadrupleagent4130 Adam Levine is the only person whose voice naturally sounds autotuned.
@@WobblesandBeanadam levine was a huge vocal influence on me as a kid and i wanted to disagree with you, then immediately realised you’re right..
I can’t believe Maroon 5 were ever a band in the first place.
@jekw23 nah they were good when they were rock
Their downfall started with Adam being such a douchey dude and the way he treats his fans. There are plenty of videos of Adam being condescending and treating bad his Latin fans while touring Latin America. There is also a video of him referring to Chile as a s#itty country. It doesn't help that they started to make malls and grocery stores music.
This! His ego has been out of control for while now
And now we treat Adam as "el mañas"
It looks like how the Gallagher brothers from Oasis were known for their attitude. I'm not making comparisons, it just reminds me of their characters.
@mimmikibilly That reminded me. I was watching a Noel Gallagher interview and someone from Maroon 5 introduced himself to him and said he was a big fan and that his music was a big influence. When he learned that the guy is in Maroon 5, he called the band sh#t and asked him "How the f did you get Maroon 5 from what I'm doing??" Which...fair question. Felt kinda bad for the guy, I don't know which M5 member it was. He knows he's not doing what a real musician is doing. I guess the money helps.
Back in like 2016 I went to my first concert ever and it was Maroon 5’s concert in Hong Kong….. and then I immediately stopped being a fan
Bro was just acting so different in person than on screen
I'm surprised you didn't bring up their Super Bowl performance. That was a real career killer and it happened under the worst circumstances possible.
What happened in the Super Bowl with maroon 5
@@crabmaster9671 Dee snider from twisted sisters roast him about real rock music and Adam jokes about how twisted sisters are not music
@@crabmaster9671 reading this really feels like some dramatic mystery shit
@@crabmaster9671 Maroon 5 were only chosen to play at the Super Bowl that year because everyone else said no due to the NFL's flip-flopping stance on the Black Lives Matter movement, during a year full of protests nationwide. On top of that, this was the year Stephen Hillenberg, the creator of SpongeBob died, which led to a huge campaign to have "Sweet Victory" from the fan-favorite Band Geeks episode played at half-time, and the NFL responded by playing the opening bit of the song from the episode before cutting to Travis Scott. Lastly, Adam Levine performed shirtless for part of it, which led to people comparing it negatively to Janet Jackson's infamous Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction that effectively ended her mainstream career, while Levine was allowed to get away with it.
This isn't even a disaster, this is a goddamn calamity
Maroon 5 is just the Spongebob meme, looking at Panic! At The Disco and yelling "Write that down! Write that down!"
A Chilean here. I think another one of the reasons the band went downhill was because of their AWFUL concert at Festival de Viña, in Chile. They went from beloved to HATED in this country because they didn't respect the audience of the festival. The thing about Viña is that is works like The Super Bowl in USA, but in this case, IT'S TRANSMITED TO THE WHOLE CONTINENT OF SOUTH AMERICA. Whenever I talk with my classmates or other people about Maroon 5, they only remember that horrible concert and swear to never listen to them again, same for any Latino in South America, they managed to enrage a whole continent, wow.
(Edit: in the replies I added a more detailed answer to what happened)
What happened at that concert?
absolutely here for the newly-disovered-to-me Chilean hatred of Maroon 5. Chilean band hate is amazing.
@@Kiddingyoumust sorry for the late reply, here is the answer (remember English is not my first language, so please excuse any weird phrasing)
The "Festival de Viña del Mar" is an international competition, similar to Eurovision, but the crowd is the one who chooses which trophy they give to the featured artist, the highest one in a golden bird (I don't know how to write Gaviota in English, but is the simbol of the region that hosts the festival).
From what I remember, Maroon 5 managed to get the love from the crowd, and earned the highest trophy, but what they did was to curse it. This was all found out later, thanks to footage from the staff members who had to prepare the event, I think it's on RUclips, search "Maroon 5 Festival de Viña detrás de cámaras" .
This was the part that is easy to explain, but now comes the parts that involve Chilean Culture: the crowd from this festival is famous for being VERY selective, it actually was given the name of "The Monster". For an unknown reason, Maroon 5 didn't sing well, and the crown didn't like that, but still gave them the trophy. Another tradition is that if the crowd yells "¡Otra! ¡Otra!" (Another song! Another song!) The artist MUST sing another one, the whole theme of the festival are the interactions with The Monster and gain the love of the crowd, but yet again, Maroon 5 didn't do that.
@@evilrainbow yey!
I’m just waiting for them to change their name to Adam Levine featuring Maroon 5
Or worse, with the rise of musicians using AI. M5 could be renamed Adam Levine only in each song, and his band members replaced by AI instrumentals and lyrics. Since they want to be on trend and look "fresh" for the younger audience. The other band members will be pissed but they will happily sue, get their percentage and create their own band, instrumentals only Rock, ALt Rock, and Rock Jazz. And leaving Adam in the dust, his music is declining anyways.
I love listening to true instrumental music on the highest volume, it's frickin relaxing! I would def buy their album!
Adam could've easily had a great solo career like a decade ago, but either due to lack of confidence or wanting to keep helping his homies eating off them royalties (which would explain so many people joining the band during the sellout years), he decided to just keep making records as Maroon 5.
Now though.... yeah, I don't think he has enough clout to pull that off unless he WILDLY switches things up and people actually like it.
@thequadrupleagent4130 Prior band members have disbanded, and some of them found great success going on solo careers. Don't worry, I won't bore you with long details. Others have found success in recording music and even writing music for upcoming musicians. I can see three of the guys from M5 doing this and getting great revenues.
Adam alone could not write a whole album by himself which is why he had to hire from outside to help. Reason why his music started to go downhill.
Edit: Lack of confidence, for sure. That's just my take 😄 👍
@@thequadrupleagent4130Yea if Adam was going to go solo it should have been between that hands all over or even overexposed era when Adam was basically everywhere
@@hameley12 That explains a lot honestly, he's creatively bankrupt which is why he's been leaning on outside songwriters and various members despite their sound being so artificial.
I already knew PJ Morton made great music outside of maroon 5, and the guitarist who quit during overexposed i'd imagine was far too good to keep attaching his name to the band.
As a Todd In the Shadows fan, I had to click
Same
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Funny story:
I was at a bowling alley and whatever song that had the "howl" in the middle, the dj was playing it paused the track before tbe howl and said "I know we have some animals in the room tonight, let me hear you." And when the howl came not a single soul did it and the dj just came back with "sounds great, guys" as defeated as possible.
lmaoooo, noooooo, that's hilarious, but I genuinely feel bad. it reminds of when in school the show choir performed "shut up and dance" and paused the bridge to tell us to "stand up and dance" for like a solid 20 seconds and not one person did 😭😭😭😭
i’m crying so hard
I'm almost 20, and I discovered today that Maroon 5 is not Adam's stage name. It's been almost 10 years since I know them
I'm almost 50, and I discovered today that Maroon 5 made any records after Songs About Jane. It's been almost 25 years since I know them.
As a chilean, adam got a special place in our recipe books.
I get that people make fun of Maroon 5 a lot for not sounding like a real band and just sounding like Adam Levine ft. a backing track but this isn't unique to them. A lot of big pop bands end up falling into this trap due to them trying too hard to not have even a hint of rock influences in their sound. A lot of modern Imagine Dragons, The Script and One Republic songs have this same problem.
i also make fun of those bands 👍
Imagine Dragons is just Maroon 5 with a singer that sounds somewhat human instead of what a clarinet would sound like if it could talk.
Imagine Dragons have basically supplanted Maroon 5 as The Band Everyone Hates, so I think it's fair to say they have similar issues
@@Omenweaver It's undeserved hate. Thunder is one of the worst songs of all time but their discography overall is pretty good.
I think maroon 5 gets dunked on more specifically because they started as a soulful pop rock band. I call it the Black Eyes Peas effect.
"Animals-muls" still makes me laugh to this day though
I too am a victim of the tardy RUclips recommendation algorithm, withholding this great video from me for two years 😤
Seriously!!
I still listen to “Songs about Jane.” I absolutely, unapologetically love that album.
This aged like fine wine considering the new stuff that came out of the lead guy
On my old band's album, I didn't play a single instrument, I just programmed them on FL Studio. And what was I credited as? Multi-instrumentalist.
I think what's really frustrating and sad about this band is that they are genuinely "talented", they just keep positioning their inauthentic selves to the medium. M5 both explicitly stated that their kind of music was meant to chase trends, but the big difference is that they were on constant pressure, both personally and professionally, and that influenced their songs. The Fourth World's final track "Captain Splendid" was created during Jesse Carmichael's parents divorce, "Harder to Breathe" is a middle finger to their record label who wanted them to make more songs than they already needed to, and the entirety of "Songs About Jane" was Adam Levine venting out his frustrations, desires, and love for her ex-girlfriend, Jane Herman. Plus when SAG initially released, they never released any singles of any kind, just after a month. They were kind of hanging by a thread at that time (plus it was their second chance), and it would only take them a year-and-a-half to be finally recognized. But it also showed a core problem in their composing, and in the music industry in general. They were too successful that there was no stricter creative input or limitations to their future work. It's the same problem I have with Christopher Nolan and his most recent films. His early work were all dialogue-driven, adult thrillers (Memento/Insomnia/The Prestige) made with fierce creativity over what they had on the table. Until he made Tenet with a whopping $150 million budget and going all-out with no substance in-between, alienating the audience over what the fuck is going on.
Pressure creates diamonds. You have to make it to break it. And that's no longer the case fore M5. They already have the connections, clout, money, etc, leaving their work on a listless pedestal, generic. And it sad because, they are really genuinely "talented", but they just had too much power with their own success that they no longer recognized what made them special in the first place. It's like being born poor and later becoming a billionaire leaving your parents and relatives in the dump. And we are those parents. They are now posing a mask to hide everything they feel embarrassed of, like the Kara's Flowers era.
They can still make good music, they just need to go back to their roots, restrain themselves, and giving them a reality check. Don't be like Coldplay where they really sold-out for the mainstream. Be like Radiohead where they make and experiment music on their own terms and gaining a strong following over time, both critically and commercially. It's up to them whether they would like to or not. But who am I kidding, Adam is just shilling some money from lonely housewives amirite?
Omg yes about Nolan
This is a really well-thought-out assessment of everything, and you are so right to bring up Coldplay. I CONSTANTLY think about how good Coldplay's first 4 albums were, but ESPECIALLY their debut 'Parachutes' it's got so much heart and angst in it, ugh. It pains me to know that we will never get that sound back from either of them unless they take that hard long look and wonder if less money is worth it :///
This is very insightful, thanks for your thoughts!
Wow, this is so eloquently written and right on target. Your point about this story applying in any number of ways is well put. Thanks for taking time to share.
@pip-pip5029 but then he made Oppenheimer, a really great dialogue driven court drama of sorts. Omg I love Nolan for this movie! Nolan got on track again lol
I don’t know why but Adam Lavine feels like Michael Buble’s evil alternate universe version that slipped through a space rift. Like he’s the Owlman to Mike’s Batman. It just doesn’t feel like he belongs here.
How? Explain your schizo babble.
kind of obsessed with this
Yes youtube, I will watch the 35 minutes Maroon 5 retrospective.
That quote from Jennifer's Body "do you want to be a big loser or be rich and awesome like the guy from Maroon 5?" ages even better every year that Maroon 5 becomes considered less cool
All of the references of Maroon 5 being cool in media age better once they get Mom Rock’d.
Maroon 5 are now the band you play for background noise, just because you remember some of the songs vaguely.
Maroon 5 feels like a band that are stuck in the early 2000s and never quite realized their time has passed.
@@eatatjoes6751 I wouldn’t say that, I love 2000s rock and metal. I would say they are a band that is very talented but one they started chasing trends they fail miserably
@@eatatjoes6751 That would imply they're still making 2000's-sounding music, which would be a step up from the soulless garbage they've been churning out for the past decade.
Modern Maroon 5 is music made to fill a quota. There's zero artistry or passion behind it, just people robotically making a product because they want money.
Adam being the center of Maroon 5 is not bad. Chris Martin was the front and center of Coldplay and they still thrive these days. All of Maroon 5's missteps along the way are all the same steps Coldplay took to stay relevant. The only difference is the members stayed together and they still make songs together, and I love the for that. It's such a shame as to what happened to Maroon 5.
Coldplay is on an incredibly similar level of soulless elevator nothingmusic and I will always stand by that. And whenever a band is only known for one person and the rest are just some people on stage, you know it went wrong.
@@Maialeen you are absolutely correct. I completely agree.
@@MaialeenYou can differentiate a real band from a fake one from how their fandom treats them. Fans of real bands like Green Day and MCR and Radiohead acknowledge and make jokes about each member of the band. Fans of fake bands, on the other hand, only talk about their singer. I GUARANTEE you that if you talk to someone who says they're a "big fan" of Maroon 5, they couldn't name a single member who isn't named "Adam Levine".
@@Dylan-FrostAs an one of big Radiohead fan since high school, i agree we always make fun and bunch of memes of Radiohead member especially Jonny, Ed and Thom
Coldplay's cool
I watched this assuming the channel had millions of subs - shocked when I saw the view count for this video - so underrated
The humor and joke attempts make the sub count a bit more believable
@@tmoney142 damn thats some brad's taste level hating lol
@@UBvtuber brad isn't even that much of a hater what are u on about bruv
@@alyssamichaela he's made a livestream every single time Mori dropped an album
“Mom rock” is soooo accurate. My mom loved maroon 5 WAYY MORE then me. She took us to 2 shows. I was just happy to get to see neon trees and owl city open😅.
fuck, I miss neon trees
Never trust a band that treats it's other members like nobodies. This "band" is so Adam-centric that at this point he should just go solo.
Glad to have filled out my college credits with this course, but now no one will hire me because of my PhD in Levineology. :(
Darn millennials and your useless college degrees 😡
This video gives me 2013 youtube vibes and i hope to god every one of your videos is like this. Never change.
Took two years to get to me, but finally the algorithm served up a perfect juicy plate of “special interest video essay”. I picked Maroon 5 as my fav band when I was 8 and it’s been a sunk cost fallacy ever since 😭 the way their music has soundtracked my life ought to mean something in therapy. I always get in their top .001% of listeners because I’m the only bitch with all the bsides in my liked songs. I don’t even listen to the latest album, it helped me finally cut the cord 😭
Tfw even the biggest maroon 5 superfan can't stomach their pop sellout garbage anymore
"it's been a sunk cost fallacy ever since" LMAOOOO
i don’t give a shit ab how bad their new stuff is, bsides, hands all over, won’t be soon before long, and songs ab jane are so good i will forever defend this band. I like a lot of overexposed as well, it’s just so hard to get the same vibe anywhere else.
@@hampter8992 you’re the first person I’ve ever seen mention the bsides and that’s how I know you’re on my level 🥲 I remember I finally got to see them live during the Red Pill Blues tour, front row, first night of the tour. All of their albums have really had their special moment in my life and that felt like the cumulation of all of it in a beautiful way! Like, I still know every words by heart!!
not even joking here, you have my condolences. i'm sorry you had to watch them crumble. :-(
Jesse starting out on guitar, going to Piano, and switching to the triangle by the end.
not the triangle 😭😭😭
Meg’s boyfriend: “Hey, Meg, I got you something for our three-week anniversary.”
Meg Griffin: “Wow, a Maroon 5 CD!”
Meg’s boyfriend; “Yeah, I remember how you told me you liked terrible music.”
Lmaoooooo😂😂
I worked a Maroon 5 concert last weekend and Adam Levine just... just can't sing. I don't think he ever could either
I feel like that's just what happens when you challenge yourself to raise 1 octave higher with each album.
It's like reverse puberty, voice cracks and all!
I am fascinated by the fact that there are people who go to Maroon 5 concerts like it's a real band. Do they have people who are genuine fans? It's like being a stan of commercial jingles or something.
@@Maialeenpeople go to vtuber concerts apparently so..
@@Maialeen I don't understand where you're coming from. They are still musicians who put out enjoyable songs, of course people want to see them. Yes, it's not gonna be the same as a Metallica concert or something, but they are still musicians. Not everyone listens to music to think about it or reflect on music theory or some shit
@@rafaelcoppe5900 I'm glad then that the only thing that matters is that I understand where I'm coming from and that my perception of this "band" is what is relevant for the comment I made, and that what is irrelevant is that you felt an overwhelming need to defend the right of the masses to give their money to musicians who aren't musicians. You don't need to worry, they'll always be able to spend cash on adam levine and some dudes they can't name.
I will forever die on the hill that only good ammunition Drake had in the Kendrick-Drake beef was Kendrick working for Maroon 5.
Songs about Jane has no filler
So true!
Agreed
Oh Lord the downfall of Maroon 5 hurts so much. At least Overexposed sounded kind of like an album, though really I blame that on the fact I hadn't heard them since I went to the mall once in 2002.
Bands who have Maroon5-ed in 2024. Nobody knows the band member and they have minor contribution to the album.
- Imagine Dragons (Dan Reynold's solo project)
- OneRepublic (Ryan Tedder's solo project)
- Coldplay (Chris Martin's solo project)
- twenty one pilots (tyler's solo project)
I don’t twenty one pilots is good in this particular discussion. It’s only two guys plus Josh definitely gets his time to shine and contributes heavily, unlike the aforementioned bands
Twenty One Pilots is just 2 guys and you can definitely hear Josh in all their songs. Plus a lot of people actually know who Josh is
This is one of the most cathartic videos I have ever seen. I have been having this conversation with myself for the better part of a decade now and to see all my thoughts presented in a very entertaining and funny way made my day. UGH I love your channel man!!!!
Funnily enough I made this because I too was having that same conversation in my head for years lol
@@GregCubed Todd in the Shadows called this when they first released Moves like Jagger and ever since he's been putting them on his worst list until like last year where they finally stopped charting.
Maroon 5 is such a weird case. Because I genuinely like their first 5 albums. All of them have some really good songs. And songs about jane and it wont be soon before long show the band can write iconic music if they want to. But they've just given up. They don't write their own music anymore, and don't even pretend to be a real band. The latest stuff is just generic and forgettable. The band doesn't have an identity. And those songs could be made by any producer. Oh well I'll always have their old stuff i guess.
I'd go as far as to say I only like their first 3 albums. I can't listen to songs on V like Animals and Feelings without my ears bleeding.
@Dylan-Frost Maps is the only good song from that album IMO.
Story time...the year was 2001 and I was working at a Best buy in the Atlanta area. One of the guys I was friends with, worked in the Geek Squad department (it wasn't called geek squad back then) any way, one day he comes up to me and hands me a burned CD. On it was Maroon 5's "Songs about Jane" but not the version that we got in the stores...SOMEHOW this Man had FOUND the album online BEFORE it was sanatized to death by the record label and it IS the superior version of the album! Such a good album!
Adam Levine’s villain arc
Lmao!
As a lifelong maroon five hater, this has been the best video ive ever watched. 👍👍
This love and harder to breathe were bangers
@-8h- I just...I can't....agree...lmao I'm SO sorry to people who enjoy them. XD I, and this is 100% personal taste, just cannot stand the sound of their music, their lyrics, their stage presence. All of it just disinterests me to the point that I thought of it as "hate" when I was a child. Then they shifted into the sell out pop era and it was so much easier to dislike them since that wasn't a genre I enjoyed in general.
I don't think their music is BAD, I don't think they are untalented artist, I don't think their shitty preformers. it's like I have this core character trait on my DnD sheet or something. "Hates Maroon 5."
I also cannot stand Train or the Plain White T's. And something in my brain connects all three of them, like...a holy trinity of "ugh, skip it."
Zero hate on people who like them! Like what you like! Be good people, all that!
They were never a great band, or even a *good* one, but I found them at least tolerable early on. Overexposed is when they became aggressively bad for me.
The Weezer connection is shockingly more deep than you think, Kara’s Flowers’ last song was on a compilation album dedicated to the late presidents of the Weezer fan club.
somehow, this video did manage to become dated, because while maroon 5 are definitely dead, i don't even think they have radio presence (but then again i'm british, and don't know what the amarican stations are playing) i still hear people talk about their presence in pop music, their impact that still lingers on the charts.
but it's not their presence, it's the producers they worked with who are still working with other artists. maroon 5 has been reduced, not to the members, not to a member, but to the producers they worked with.
in the end, none of the members mattered, not even adam lavine himself.
13 years ago I heard of Maroon 5 and loved Moves like Jagger and... the other songs.
Today, I learned Maroon 5 is not just a name for Adam Levine, but they are a legit band that have been around for a long time.
Maroon 5 is the typical "I know of them because their songs didn't stop playing in grocery stores and malls."
The thought that Adam Levine played grunge music in the 90's almost gave me hives
Really want to hear your take on indie tumblr rock bands like artic monkeys, the 1975 and the neighborhood, etc.
Ugh, yes!
Wait, Maroon 5 is a ROCK BAND??! The FUCK??! HOW???!!!
nobody knows how that happened but they've been included in a lots of bootleg rock compilations I saw on sale in mid-2000s.
So I thought "V" was "5" but in roman numberals and not like the letter.
It is but a lot of people just call it V anyways lol
Because it's their 5th album
I'm glad there is someone out here who is as frustrated with the downfall of Maroon 5 as I am. Their first 3 albums were on repeat for me from 2003 til 2011. It genuinely hurt me when Overexposed came out 😅😅😅
A 7-member Maroon 5 is like Jenna from *13 Going on 30* being *the seventh Six Chick*
Such a stupid and obscure reference for a stupid band
You should make this a series and cover the changes to bands over time. 👀
if you're looking for more vids like this, MicTheSnare's Discoc Dives are excellent!
I was waiting you mentioned their incident in Viña del mar "performance" where Adam insult their Chileans fans and made all the country of Chile hate him and his band.
We should have made him persona non-grata like argetina with justin beiber lmao
Songs About Jane was one of the most exciting albums to ever launch on pop radio. Catchy but unique, edgy without being cringe, dripping with talent and possibility.... Now I know *what* went wrong, but I still can't fathom *why.*
Same exact thing that happened to Coldplay. At least musically. Undeniably good emotional pop rock for like 3 or 4 albums and then someone gave them the idea to do EDM festival trash for the money and they've never been the same.
it's officially been "a couple years" and i can confidently say this video is just as relevant as when it came out
side note, this video reminded me of how when i was in elementary school me and my daycare friends started a maroon 5 cover band where we used building blocks for instruments. i was the drummer and my favorite song to play was sunday morning
I have a raging hatred for Moves Like Jagger since it released.
Hate like Jaeger?
Same. It’s just so obnoxious while also saying absolutely nothing at the same time. It’s sure is catchy but its also drab at the same time somehow? It’s the bigges of insults to so erroniously misuse mick jagger’s name on this trashy good for nothing annoying song when the one thing he hasn’t done during his long life is be this boring, bland and saying nothing. Truly hate this song with all i have
Lol me too
@@shutup1037 nice one
Also, the song "Middle Ground" was probably the biggest flop of their entire career so I predict that they're going to reinvent themselves completely if they ever make music again
Actually yes they are! In the recent appearance they had, they’ve said there making original stuff again with JUST the band and no outsiders. Middle Ground was honestly a step in the right direction and i hope from then on we see a return to how they used to be
@@vvx600 I can see this going either two ways:
either it becomes a trainwreckord (todd in the shadows reference) where the public is just baffled and has no use for an actually good maroon 5 again.
or, possibly it does well because we're in a Y2K nostalgia era where alt rock and punk have made a considerable comeback.
But, I'd definitely be down for them not sucking for once. I heard adam levine's cover of purple rain in 2016 or so and it was actually pretty good, mainly because Adam can still shred a guitar which I was NOT expecting.
@@vvx600 The funny thing is, their one attempt at making traditional country music for the first Hunger Games soundtrack is probably the sound of theirs that's most in line with current pop trends so if they wanted to be back on top, they'd have to do some more of that.
@@thequadrupleagent4130 replying to both, i think the band can still put out an amazing performance and album if they really cared and did what they want without thinking about appealing to the charts. If you check one of the recent M5 live from a few years ago American Express performance. Adam can still sing amazingly well and the band can still put out amazing performances. Its certainly more of them needing to follow their passion than charts
@@vvx600 Yeah, honestly at this point they probably don't need the charts. Every member of Maroon 5 can probably pay for a decent house off the royalties of She Will be Loved, Girls like You and Moves like Jagger alone.
so yeah, if they can still rock or at least make better music than the souless stuff they're putting out: i'm down for that. Whether they actually go that direction is another question.
I agree with you for the most part but I just don’t think they ever ‘sold out’ - they wanted to play what was popular and chase trends from the very beginning (which explains why they were a grunge band in 1994). It’s just that in the era they first came up in, bands playing live instruments were still cool. Their pop rock stuff was just as cookie cutter and trend chasing, but it was the era RIGHT BEFORE you could literally fix every note and every beat in audio software, so early Maroon 5 does have some humanity in it, but so did every band from that era, even the corny ones. Maroon 5 embraced whatever trend came along through their entire career. There was no ‘turning point’, there was just a point where you as a listener stopped messing with whatever the new trends in music are. And there’s no shame in that dude! It happens to all of us eventually.
Yes it’s this exactly
They def sold out
"urban music" i fucking hate that its so condescending and smug
right, cause like everyone can hear what you're not saying
They were a creatively bankrupt band that trend chased. When pop “rock” lost its trends they had nothing left to follow.
Honestly I can’t remember which era of Maroon 5 I grew up with. I really did like all the songs I did listen to. Hearing the recent news about the singer of Maroon 5 makes me upset.
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at least those dms gave us double dz by the black eyed peas, which is the greatest song of all time
It's been 2 years and your video is still relevant 😉
yooo this video is making rounds again, congrats on algorithming
The fact that this made it in my fyp 2 years after release is a travesty, but ig better late than never. Great video!
In the Philippines we call em, MAROON 1.
Hehehe 😅
Honestly as someone who was always a fan of SAJ and IWBSBL, I always wondered how this downfall happened but wasn't as involved with M5's origins as others so thank you for putting this video out! I'm amazed how much you put into this video and your humor! Idk how the algorithm is barely recommending this to me 2 years after you released it but I'm glad it did! Subscribed for sure :)
Also I do hope you get around to the P!ATD video! I was a MASSIVE P!ATD fan so unfortunately, I was there to witness all of it, and it still breaks my heart to this day. I know you'll do the story justice if it's released!
There will be a Panic! video eventually, trust me lol. Their downfall is one of the most notorious
How did this guy make me watch a35 minute video on maroon 5 man? how?
The Downfall began because Adam cheats on his wife 🤭
id like to think there is a alternate reality where after the first 2 albums they went more and more into the jazzy soul sound and became a prog fusion band.
“…We Like Digging?” has to be THE WORST ALBUM TITLE of all time
What was PJ Morton even do as a band member since Overexposed? All the while, he was regarded as one hell of an underrated solo artist himself. To me, it was like a wasted ammunition when you look at the current state of Maroon 5. Identity loss...
I’m still trynna figure out what he’s doing with them because he’s PJ friggin Morton!
I see maroon 5 like i see coldplay and its sad cause i adore the early coldplay records, rush of blood is a masterpeice imo but they just stoped being an alt band and started chassing trends
as a former Maroon 5 fan, hearing Mickey (the bassist) being called Michael is so weird to me
also, the first drummer was Ryan Dusick! There's no R in his last name.
There’s nothing boomer-ish about wanting to hear guitars or drums in a band THAT HAS A GUITARIST AND DRUMMER.
Maroon 5 is now a verb. Other bands who Maroon Fived are Coldplay, Fitz and the Tantrums, Imagine Dragons and shockingly 21 Pilots, whose whole existence was an emo alternative pop music to Maroon 5.
Yep just got this in my recommended. I'm a bit older and got into these guys when their debut was their only album... My fall off from following them literally follows your exact call outs.
Great vid
The fact that Adam Levine helped write one of Kanye's greatest songs is insane to me.
Which one?
@@GeekZone210 Heard Em Say
If it makes you feel better: when you said Moves Like Jagger was on Hands All Over, my first thought was no it wasn’t. So you are not the only one who remembers.
Fellow HOA truther let's go
I love how he calls Maroon 5s album as "V" the letter instead of calling it five... As in the Roman numeral "V" means 5. Since it's their 5th album...
Being a Maroon 5 band member sounds pretty sweet. They don’t have to write songs or even play your instruments.
3:28 “in 1994” WEEZER
4:26 oh, fuck… Adams poor sweater
But it is funny that weezer and maroon 5 have kinda similar stories, from borderline grunge bands, to their own little weird thing to pop rock bands
The thing is Rivers got traumatized due to Pinkerton getting poor reception so he couldn't quite express himself later on
@@dinkarfowkar999they also really are MAJORLY inconsistent. White album by them was pretty good and OK Human. Besides that that’s the only modern Weezer I’ve really enjoyed.
@@theeleventh805gamer7 agreed when they do drop the ball it hits hard
Their paths actually intertwine a bit more than you think, Kara's Flowers and Weezer's fan clubs were ran by the same people. They both played live with Ozma, as well.
Weird that I actually liked Songs About Jane once. The thing about Maroon 5 is that they could be used as a literal definition of ‘’sellouts’’. When people talk about sellouts, THIS is what they mean, not signing to major labels or having slightly better production.
Also, I do think not having instrumentation loses something. Even Moves Like Jagger could have been played by an actual band using actual fucking instruments, but they chose not to.
If a song is good, it’s good - you don’t need to make it sound like every other dance pop tune to make it succeed. Look at half the hit songs of the last 30 years, the weird one hit wonders of the 90s. If your song is good, it’s good, don’t need to make it dance pop and use drum machines to do it.
Just became the Adam Levine show, fuck that guy.
TBH they’ve always been trend chasers. When grunge was popular they were doing grunge. When Weezer was popular, they did Weezer. I would say they had a unique sound they still were riding trends. Then when they got popular enough, they hopped on the pop team.
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