Maroon 5 from Best Bands of All Time
Maroon 5 is an American pop rock band that originated in Los Angeles, California. It currently consists of lead vocalist Adam Levine, lead guitarist James Valentine, keyboardist and rhythm guitarist Jesse Carmichael, bassist Mickey Madden, drummer Matt Flynn, and keyboardist PJ Morton.Before the current group was established, the original four members, Adam Levine (lead vocals, lead guitar), Jesse Carmichael (rhythm guitar, backing vocals), Mickey Madden (bass guitar) and Ryan Dusick (drums), formed a band known as Kara's Flowers in 1994, while they were still in high school.
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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.
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...
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.
I really loved She Will Be Love and the first half of Overexposed. Don't sure if I can call the rest a shit, but it ain't good.