Maroon 5

From TheDude85 04/12/2019 14:37

Two stars on the strength of their debut, the remainder of their career the band devolved to be nothing but a pretentious Adam Levine vehicle.

I love their first album 'Songs About Jane' it's a solid worthwhile listen. Their second album is about the same if a little worse. Now they are complete sellouts with not very good music. They were always pop but now they are the most basic music ever.

I used to love Maroon 5, but that love has faded. Why? Because they suck. Kind of hard to like them when they don't make anything particularly good.
For one, they aren't really a band. I care more about the backup vocalists and dancers solo acts tour with than I do the other members of "Adam and the Levines."
In the early days, Adam Levine had some vocal chops and some great stage presence. He still has the stage presence but his voice is just so weak and whiny, because that's all it needs to be. There is too much autotune on their songs now, and a heavy reliance on cheap falsetto hooks.
I like most of Songs About Jane, but every album after that is a collection of hit/miss singles. As they progress, each album seems to have weaker good songs, or a smaller number of good songs.

The Adam Levine vocal vehicle known as Maroon 5.

Levine is a talent but every album is a blatant attempt to make a number 1 radio friendly hit based on the popular music of the time.

This lack of soul, identity, and general humanity makes it hard to like the band. They are basically a machine that throws in radio friendly ideas and shoot out singles. Some are hits and most are misses.

So take them for what they offer. A couple solid pop songs on each album and the talent of Adam Levine. That's about it.

From VitorHugoP 03/21/2016 20:56

They're magicians, know why? Because they got the magic to make the most boring, shitty and annoiyng music ever, every album of them gets olds in 5minutes, listen to them is like playing Hong Kong 97 from snes... Or even worse...

From Space-Dementia 12/03/2015 03:11

They used to make actually not bad pop songs, but now they're horrible. They might as well be called Adam Levine and the Maroon 5 because no one knows anyone else in the band and it's not even a real band. Everything since Songs About Jane is basically trash.

Songs about Jane is really good, but everything else shadows it and its all sh-t.

From makerofbuckets 01/26/2015 02:53

is adam levine a real person? doesn't sound like one.

Did you know Adan Levine wishes he sounded like a guy?

From junodog4 09/06/2014 02:28

Nothing offensive about these guys... but for a media-anointed 'sexiest man', Adam Levine sure has a weak, thin voice.