As a part of the re-release, they added four new singles onto the album, with the final one being Moves. But for these minor variations on themes such as “A supermodel broke my heart,” or “It’s just not working out, supermodel,” it’s all he can do to fake it. In 2011, Maroon 5 re-released their third album, Hands All Over. Ni ting t nm 2004 sau single 'This Love', s nghip ca Maroon 5 liên tc có nhng bc tin vng chc.Dù tng phi thay i thành viên (tay trng Ryan Dusick ri nhóm vào nm 2006) song Maroon 5 vn tip tc thành công nh s nh hng. If “Overexposed” suffers at all, it’s on the low end: Levine, who has the voice Justin Timberlake wishes he had, was once capable of feigning great emotion. Maroon 5 là mt ban nhc pop rock ngi M n t Los Angeles, California. It’s shiny and ridiculously pleasurable, which is different than saying it’s good. There are forays into clubby reggae (“One More Night”) and retro funk (“Doin’ Dirt”), and a Wiz Khalifa collaboration (“Payphone”) that’s as implausible as it is addictive. It seems more like a collaboration between Swedish hitmakers and AutoTune than between Levine and members of his band, who apparently exist, but it’s a small price to pay. “Overexposed” is a hit-seeking missile that doesn’t just slaughter Maroon 5’s reputation for sincerity (which was pretty nonexistent anyway), it festoons its corpse with glitter, hairspray and Hello Kitty stickers. With the help of a coven of high-priced producers (Wikipedia lists at least 18, including famed Britney Spears/Usher hitmaker Max Martin and someone nicknamed Mailbox), Maroon 5 has (d)evolved from a convincing simulacrum of a soul-pop band to a trend-chasing dance-pop outfit. With its latest, “ Overexposed,” the band seems determined not to repeat the experience. Maroon 5’s previous album, 2010’s “ Hands All Over,” was just a modest hit. The alternative-rock licks are a far cry from the direction the band has taken since hitting pop’s big leagues.Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine’s gig as a coach on “The Voice” has been the career equivalent of the adrenaline shot that Uma Thurman’s character got in “ Pulp Fiction.” Without it, he never would have made “Moves Like Jagger,” his guiltiest-of-guilty-pleasures collaboration with co-worker Christina Aguilera, which sent the band’s moribund career into orbit. Overexposed is the fourth studio album by the American band Maroon 5.It was released on June 20, 2012, by A&M Octone Records.The album was recorded between 20 and was driven after the moderate success of their third album, Hands All Over (2010), and later by the enormous success of the re-released edition, which was promoted by the single 'Moves Like Jagger', recorded as a. Though a custom designed logo, the letters. The Maroon 5 logo above features an interlocked OO and a disconnected M, with the vertex of M in orange. PHOTOS: Notable Quotables From ‘The Voice’s’ JudgesĪs Billboard’s Chris Payne writes: “Maroon 5 are barely the same band that first hit the radio waves with their debut single ‘Harder to Breathe’ a decade ago. Maroon 5 is an American pop rock band formed in Los Angeles, now consisting members of Adam Levine, Jesse Carmichael, Mickey Madden, James Valentine and Matt Flynn. Other critics mention an overall mediocrity, that the Maroon 5 who captured America’s attention has seemingly lost its purpose through “desperate to sell” tracks on the album.Īs for Levine, while he’s notably among the most recognized voices in popular music today, lyrically, he seems to have missed the mark on Overexposed, especially where Maroon 5’s trademark ballads are concerned. Says Allison Stewart of the Washington Post: “ Overexposed is a hit-seeking missile that doesn’t just slaughter Maroon 5’s reputation for sincerity, it festoons its corpse with glitter, hairspray and Hello Kitty Stickers.”Įntertainment Weekly, which graded the album a C+, said it “never quite finds a balance between rock grit and dance pop-glitz … Maroon 5 barely sounds like a band at all.” Some critics also note a hint of insincerity to the new music. But outside of singer Adam Levine’s signature vocal style, the sound of Overexposed seems to be received as a dramatic departure from Maroon 5’s 2002 debut, and in that sense, may not be what fans are expecting from this album. Indeed, the first single off the album, “Payphone,” featuring rapper Wiz Khalifa, has already reached number one for digital sales, the band’s best showing yet on the digital chart.
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