


While there is some question of how genuine the actual wedding "crashes"/"surprises" were, the brides were all genuine reactions. The music video for "Sugar" is the band surprising a bunch of wedding couples by playing the song.During their 2009 tour, Levine and Carmichael realized that their old summer camp was on the way to their next gig and decided to stop there and spend the day hanging out with the campers.Heartwarming Moments: "Sweetest Goodbye" and "Tangled" on their debut.he says this as he's still dressed as a Squirtle lookalike. There's also a Mid-Vid Skit where the director asks Adam Levine to put on a Pharrell Williams-esque Nice Hat and Levine refuses because it would make him look "silly". Funny Moments: "Don't Wanna Know" has a Concept Video parodying Pokémon GO (and possibly also the beginning of A Hard Day's Night), with the band (and various celebrity cameos) dressed in cumbersome mon costumes while being chased down the street by people holding up smartphones.First Installment Wins: Songs About Jane is still considered their best album.Lampshaded in Bart Baker's parody of "Animals", where the entire second half revolves around the rest of the band ranting about how much Adam gets the spotlight, before preparing to hang him and torture him with the sound of his own voice."I guess it pays more to rob a bank than be a member of Maroon 5.".You'll find this on many videos for their songs. A majority of people commenting on the music video for "Harder to Breathe" on YouTube alone has many fans decrying their newer music, in favor of their older stuff. Just in general, most fans seem pretty torn on whether the newer material they're churning out is any good in the first place, or is just bad, meaningless schlock.

A great, anthemic song, or a creepy-as-all-get-out Stalker with a Crush anthem that'd make Robin Thicke crap his pants? And then there's the music videos. "Animals", from V, is especially getting plenty of this.If his personality doesn't matter to you, you either love or hate his voice. You either think Levine is awesome/attractive or an egotistical douche.They're either great albums that allow the band to expand their sound, or terrible rubbish that's studio-created rather than the musicianship shown on their first three albums. Broken Base: Plenty of Maroon 5 fans are torn up on Overexposed and V.Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Wiz Khalifa's rap about how hot his car is on "Payphone." "Payphone" is a love song.But someone tell that to the pit that's been forming in our stomach over the last four-and-a-half minutes.ĭirected by Samuel Bayer, the video does successfully evoke emotion – just not any good ones.īayer previously teamed up with Maroon 5 on their "Payphone" video, but has also worked with a stunningly wide array of artists including Nirvana, Justin Timberlake and Marilyn Manson, among many others. The video closes on Levine, standing in the rain outside Prinsloo's window. Starring Levine's new bride Behati Prinsloo, the clip shows Levine as a butcher, chopping meat, using animal carcasses for punching bags, stalking his prey and, eventually, finding his way into her bed, getting naked and covered in blood with her. NEWS: Adam Levine's Step-By-Step Guide to Wooing Supermodels With feminism and human rights at the forefront of national consciousness (see: Emma Watson's passionate #HeForShe United Nations speech also: the horrifying invasion of privacy faced by female celebrities who've had their private and personal photos stolen), the timing of this single could not have been worse. We understand a good metaphor, but there's just something about comparing a woman – one which Levine is sexually interested in, by the way – to prey just doesn’t sit right.
