Upon request, I will send you a 22-second mixtape of all the moments that sound “organic” on this album. In a 2016 interview, guitarist James Valentine suggested at a more “organic, back to a Songs About Jane sort of approach” for Red Pill Blues. All of those things can exist on the pop stage.
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Nobody was expecting the band to turn around and recreate Songs About Jane, but fans were more than forthcoming with pleas for the band to avoid uninspired pop formulas - Overexposed, after all, demonstrated that if nothing else, Maroon 5 is capable of doing mainstream pop right, if it tries.įans have yearned for the trademarks that made the band stand out in the first place: punchy instrumentals that incorporated soul, funk, rock and disco constructions, the full breadth of Adam Levine’s seductive tenor range and amorous, angsty lyricism.
“We just didn’t know what you wanted,” Adam Levine seems to be saying to you as he pushes play on the lyrically vapid album opener “Best 4 U.”Įxcept, fans told Levine over and over again what they wanted. Listening to Red Pill Blues (named for “The Matrix,” not the men’s rights activist movement, the band promises! ) is the equivalent to having sent your parents a list of exactly what you want for your birthday this year - then opening your present to find it’s a hairbrush.
But I’m not saying these words as the chorus to one of the tracks on the band’s latest album, Red Pill Blues - even though these are the lyrics to (surprise) “Help Me Out.” I am quite literally begging them to end their pop cacophony and listen up for a change. “Help me out, ‘cause I don’t wanna do this,” I scream deliriously at the band members of Maroon 5.
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