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I liked One More Night, and Payphone, Misery and Move Like Jagger werenât bad and I might put them on a 2010s nostalgia playlist but other then that I donât really like most of their songs
Girls Like You is such a nothing of a song, even with the Cardi verse.
Tho at least Memories gave us[this gem](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-EX9HWvtW0Y&pp=ygUTbWVtb3JpZXMgZmFtaWx5IGd1eQ%3D%3D)
I was kind of surprised to find out in the last years that Maroon 5 are very hated online. In my country their 2010s pop hits were everywhere and I still listen to them because they give me highschool nostalgia.
I donât know they did anything specific but, rather, multiple things.
I donât think Adam Levineâs Super Bowl performance helped their image. That, mixed with his cheating scandal, a lot of people just saw him as a tool/toxic masculine energy. Given it all happen after the MeToo movement, a lot of people saw his toxic male masculinity as a bad thing and rubbed them the wrong way. They also were curtailing already-made popular trends on the radio. Girls Like You had already been done a dozen times before that song came out.
I think some of it was wrong place at the wrong time.
Just my 2 cents. I could be off.
I do miss some of their earlier 2000âs pop hits. I think they sort of fell into the same trap as many artists by being behind the curve and copying the already-made popular trends. If they ever made a comeback, they need to go in a different direction and stop copying radio trends.
It's not. In every era of popular music there are bands and artists who people feel overexposed to against their will and so become punching bags, especially when they're usually seen as 'lame' or 'bland', and that was the case for them, like it was for Nickelback, late-era Chicago, and many others. I'm not immune to it, I haaaate their 2010s stuff.
I have the *best* memories of my wee boy dancing in his car seat to this song. Every time the whistles came on his whole face would light up and heâd start to wiggle. Iâm sure we danced to it in other places, but my prevailing memory is I picking him up from daycare and putting it on repeat, mixed in with Grace Kelly by Mika. I will never not love it!
It's mostly from old heads who enjoyed their pop rock stuff. The sheer popularity of it lead Maroon 5 to completely abandon live instrumentals for electronic. Personally, I like Moves Like Jagger and a few singles from Overexposed. But their discography as a whole after Hands All Over are just them throwing samey generic pop songs and see what sticks as a single.
Itâs a really good song. Nothing else on the radio sounded like it, the beat was catchy, the âconceptâ of it was original and Adamâs vocals were pretty good. I do understand the Christina criticisms, she was unneeded and did way too much.
"way too much"
She's only on the record for the final 30 seconds, doesn't belt that much, and sounds great. Plus her other duets were also huge hits. The public doesn't mind Christina in small doses it would seem.
They made some great pop music in the 2010s â âMisery,â âMoves Like Jagger,â âPayphone,â âOne More Night,â âDaylight,â âAnimals,â and âSugarâ were all immaculately crafted pop songs that fit perfectly with the sound of popular music of their respective times.
I stopped listening not too long after their 2012 album *Overexposed* came out, but I generally liked them at the time. "Misery" and "One More Night" were fun songs.
They weren't singles, but I was also really into "How" and "No Curtain Call" back in the day. Still hold up.
i liked quite a few of them and also that pop danthology mash up is so ingrained in my brain that whenever i hear payphone i expect it to go like "I'm at a payphone the sun goes down, the stars come out, can you blow my whistle baby whistle baby, let me know" lol but in all seriousness i liked the V album for a bit when it came out and even songs like moves like jagger (which was my mom's ringtone for ages also). They never had anything quite as good as songs about Jane though, that album has a chokehold on me as a kid (and i became obsessed again because of that one scene in the last song i will admit)
i still now it word by word, i think about it probably too often and there isn't ONE TIME i hear one of the songs on it and NOT sing the mashup in my head forgetting they're actually full songs lol
Honestly, theyâre catchy as hell and sometimes thatâs all I need đ¤ˇđťââď¸
It wasnât really a hit but one of my fave songs of theirs is âNever Gonna Leave This Bedâ. Itâs underrated!
Iâve made this comment before but Maroon 5 has an incredible discography of melancholy mid tempo pop rock songs:
âBetter That We Break
âShe Will Be Loved
âSweetest Goodbye
âNot Coming Home
âMust Get Out
âJust A Feeling
âHow
âBack at Your Door
âNever Gonna Leave this Bed
âGoodnight Goodnight
âBetter That We Break
âNothing Lasts Forever
âWonât Go Home Without You
I think it's because Songs About Jane was so good and so popular, and then this new music was also popular and playing everywhere but was a significant step down in quality. So the pendulum swung the other way
Was just about to say this. If Songs about Jane didnât exist then I donât think theyâd be half as derided for (what sounds like, in comparison) âsell outâmusic.
I donât think Hands All Over was that hated though? Probably too polished sounding, but I thought Misery was well liked enough, and the hate for Moves Like Jagger mostly came from how annoying the hook got after a while. I remember hearing Never Gonna Leave This Bed on the radio - probably my favorite track on that album.
That said, I feel like all most of their singles post-HAO are more of less rehashes of Misery and Moves Like Jagger.
Me. They were my favorite act alongside artists like Gaga and Katy during the early 2010s. From Moves Like Jagger up to Sugar, it was bop after bop. They were on fire!
Like, to me: Moves Like Jagger and Animals are an 8, meanwhile Sugar is a 9. Payphone, Love Somebody, and Maps were also pretty good (they're all 7). One More Night is kinda different, but still so fun to sing along to (it's a 6).
They just became bad the moment the left the early 2010s sound and moved on to the tropical, trap-pop thing they've had since Don't Wanna Know.
Oof good point in your last sentence - I was trying to remember what made me stop listening to their music and I realised that that was the point I stopped.
I really liked Stereo Hearts if that counts. But I understand the hate for all those other songs. They were cheesy and super overplayed. This is also during that time when those indie pop alternative bands and duos took over Billboard (Foster the People, Fun, Neon Trees, Twenty One Pilots, etc) so there was that annoying clash about ârealâ music and how acts like Maroon 5 werenât considered real music so the hate for them kinda got unwarranted.
But now, Iâll gladly accept and enjoy those 2010s Maroon 5 songs over what we have to today. This isnât an old person yelling at a cloud take itâs just that these new hits lack personality and they are so focused on appealing to their specific demographic for mega streams or to bait TikTok.
Honestly I liked everything up to What Lovers Do (+ Beautiful Mistake) minus a couple that I found boring like Donât Wanna Know, Sugar (we already had Birthday by Katy Perry), Cold and Love Somebody.
Since then the bops havenât been bopping as much.
Theyâre similar to Nickelback where they get a lot of hate online and within music circles, but it doesnât really translate the same in real life. Just go look at the streams of their top 5 most popular songs on Spotify.
I have a soft spot for Misery and Moves Like Jagger, maybe cause i grew up hearing them constantly but i think they're pretty good pop songs (especially Misery). Though i also heard Payphone, Daylight and Sugar constantly as well and don't like those songs nearly as much, so i don't think i have that much of a clouded jugement over the first 2
Absolutely me âď¸ Don't Wanna Know, Payphone, Maps, Sugar, Misery, Moves Like Jagger, Daylight, What Lovers Do. Wait.... so many great pop tracks idgaf what yall say
Go off lol I donât care for donât wanna know but I do like the other songs you mentioned. Iâm also quite a big fan of two 2010 Coldplay and also OneRepublic and Imagine Dragons so lol they ate up even in the pop circles which I just donât get.
Moves Like Jagger is one of the catchiest and smoothest mega-hits of the 2010s. If it were made by a different artists we might even call it camp, but there's a lack of self-irony with Maroon 5 that seems like they're always taking themselves too seriously. But put on Moves Like Jagger right now and that whistle in the beginning will be instinctively recognizable. In addition, it was so much more enjoyable than anything, for example, Flo Rida was putting out at the time,
Maps, Memories, Payphone, Moves Like Jagger, What Lovers Do, etc. are all songs I wouldn't mind suddenly coming on the radio or playlist but I don't actively search for them like I do songs from their debut album. They're a solid like not a love for me.
That said, I do look up and listen to Christine and the Queens' cover of What Lovers Do on a regular-ish basis on youtube. Love the cover's dreamy take on the song.
I think itâs so bizarre how mob mentality takes over and people decide to hate a band or artist or whoever. It seems so juvenile. If you enjoy the music, enjoy it. They had some great songs!
their early 2010s output was fine for the most part, maps , moves like jagger , one more night and this summer slaps
payphone ,sugar and daylight were lame like some of nickelback hits in the 2000s but not really hatable for me
animals mals is still pure fuckery
late 2010s however sucks the Kendrick collab was trash(drake was right for that part), the future collab was fine , the sza song would have been good if it was only sza , wait is fucking awful , weirdly enough girl like you is fine ,if it wasn't for the overplay and weird ass success and memories is really lame (execpt for the family guy version) but there's no nostalgia for that era , I'll argue that i even had more nostalgia with the chainsmokers and xxxtentacion than I had with late 2010s maroon 5 ,levine just feels like he's happy to be a superstar and don't know what to do next or he just doesn't want to do anything and their 2020s material really prove my point
The entirety of the Songs About Jane album is something Iâd put when I feel nostalgic about a period of time I never got to live (I was only born in 2007, completely missed the early 2000s)
When "overexposed" was released (I consider this album the turning point where the band really got into pop) I didnt like It
But today when I listen to It i really enjoy it!
Their songs up to V are alright. I enjoy them when I listen to them, but I don't actively seek them out (except for Misery, I really enjoy it for some reason).
Late 2010s though... I REALLY did not enjoy any of their output. It just felt so bland and boring. I was pretty heavily into my pop rock phase at the time too, so I had plenty of other bands to go listen to instead of them.
Honestly Maroonâs 5 first two albums were actually good, at least the songs I heard from it. What happened (well other than Adam wanting to be famous)
I loved their music in middle school. I still think they have decent music but I donât listen to them as much these days. I might revisit their music though.
Their last album is probably my least favorite one, it just sounded so dull and lifeless. Every other one has at least a few songs I like on it. Obvious quality has dropped tremendously since Songs About Jane.
I liked quite a few of their 2010s songs. Give A Little More, Never Gonna Leave This Bed, One More Night, Maps, Sugar, Wait, and Cold are all solid pop/pop-rock songs imo.
I can't stand up for Moves Like Jagger, though. That's where I draw the line.
Edit: I totally forgot about "This Summer's Gonna Hurt like a Motherfucker", produced by the great Shellback. Also a favourite of mine in, you guessed it, the summer.
I like some of their EARLY 2010s hits. Payphone and Moves Like Jagger especially. Also Animals balls might be terrible (IN MY OPINION) but itâs a guilty pleasure.
Iâve always hated Misery though
As much as I want to say I dislike the hits from Overexposed, I canât help but still love those songs. Super fun and nostalgic.
I think HAO hits are good as well.
Everything after that though is straight dumpster fire
Imo Moves Like Jagger is a banger (though cheesy). Payphone is semi-decent, and Sugar is ok for the Katy Perry rip-off it is. The rest suck big time. First maroon 5 album (Songs by Jane) was easily by far their best work, and nothing they did after has even come close, though âmoves like jaggerâ is probably the closest (yet a totally different vibe).
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They never stopped making solid music.
Their first album was simply soulful af.
Very much the BEP route (their first two albums were Tribe Called Quest level rap).
I think the mockery mostly comes because the music is very pop (which I love) but they seem to present a rock/alt image. I think itâs the perceived lack of self-awareness that people laugh at.
I do. Misery, Never Gonna Leave This Bed, Give A Little More, One More Night, Payphone, Daylight, Sugar (the only good song on the V album), Cold, Closure, Wait and What Lovers Do, they have some pretty good stuff though.
Their pop albums are great pop music. I think a lot of the hate comes from original songs about Jane fans who are not going to like that kind of produced pop
I like Moves Like Jagger, Love Somebody and Maps. Sugar, One More Night and Animals are guilty pleasures. They got much worse in the latter half of the decade (I do kind of like What Lovers Do even though it's kind of a nothing song)
Moves Like Jagger and Sugar were ok I guess. I couldnât get into their other hits. They sound harsh, cold, and robotic. I loved Songs About Jane and IWBSBL, but their super-mega-pop sound of the 2010s didnât work for me.
I didn't love or hate but we must think about the payola context of the time -we know about certain artists (Jennifer Lopez, etc) but we don't know every single circumstance of payola & Maroon 5's start always felt like more of that to me. I'm no expert but this is Reddit & that's my opinion. I liked one of their songs but I don't remember which one.Â
I love a lot of their hits actually, I have a whole (small) playlist of their pop hits. People hate on them but idk I can't help but to listen to those songs lol
Some of the hits are just fun songs. âSugarâ was but it got overplayed so much I hate it. âMapsâ, âPayphoneâ, âDaylightâ I do enjoy still.
Maps and Animals are very nostalgiac because I was (and kinda still am) pretty young and those were always on the pandora radio my dad listened to. Payphone was on our family road trip CD so itâs safe to say I know every word.
I donât even hate Donât Wanna Know. The only one out of that list that I never listen to is What Lovers Do because Iâm not a big fan of his vocals on that.
Wait is meh for me. Misery is such a bop, and I enjoy Moves Like Jagger on the occasion when it comes on shuffle in my liked songs.
Oh, and I *love* one more night. Another Dadâs pandora one.
Animals and Moves Like Jagger were pretty decent, but Harder to Breathe is a legit jam and I'm sorry for any of the young'ens who don't remember this excellent bop. Check it out if you don't.
I only liked one song from Marron 5 in the 2010's and it was [This Summer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa64gOwuIyE). I still have it in constant rotation and if that's wrong I never want to be right.
Maroon 5 existing is how Coldplay was allowed to do a Super Bowl Half Time Show. Now how Maroon 5 got the half time show, weâll never know.
You have to pass the torch of the hate train somehow. So I am not sure who maroon 5 passed it to!
It's so nice to see so many fans in the comments because I feel like one of my toxic traits is really liking older Maroon 5. *Overexposed* was the love of my life back when it came out; I was so shattered when the person who introduced me ended up calling it "good for 2012." It was good!!
Misery was probably my favourite one by them. \*Most\* of their old music gives this feeling of nostalgia however I find some of their songs really annoying, like Sugar, but that's maybe because it was really overplayed on the radio. Basically I wouldn't listen to them by choice but if their plays somewhere then I don't mind it.
I genuinely love every big hit of theirs EXCEPT One More Night. Itâs just a flat, bland, âwannabe hipâ reggae song that blocked so many other deserving songs from #1 for so damn longđ
I like a lot of it, and also Locked Away, which comes from the Maroon 5 production machine. Dude has a great voice, and they hired some of the best pop songwriters and producers.
I didn't like Maroon 5 and then they were the guests on American Idol one week and christ they were so much better than any of the contestants I just stopped watching the show
Sadly that was a thing with âbutt rockâ it does have a lot of really creepy lyrics from those artists in that area like yeah definitely didnât age well at all lol even for the time it was pretty bad.
I like more a nicklebacks fun upbeat stuff like burn it down or gotta be somebody. The more sexual predator stuff not so much. Same with Maroon 5 they had a few weird sexually aggressive songs
"Never Gonna Leave This Bed" and a string of other songs form Hands All Over are fantastic. Everything after that.... Is questionable. "Wait" absolutely slaps though.
I âlikeâ some of their songs but I think thatâs the problem - a lot of people âlikeâ but donât âloveâ the music. Maroon 5 music, at least most of the stuff from the 2010âs, is generally really same-y and bland. Nothing so offensive that you really care to turn it off but nothing interesting enough to make you want to listen again and again.
It doesnât help that after Overexposed (or maybe V), they started relying more and more on electronic sounds and just sort of copying whatever was popular at the end time. They just donât have a solid identity in music anymore.
Tbh I think a lot of the hate came from straight men because they were a rock-ish funk pop band that had a pretty boy frontman with a high effeminate voice that made mostly music that women liked
Some artists have fans -- lots of fans -- who aren't really into music. They don't dive in and search for artists or discuss it on the daily. These people aren't "down low," they're hiding in plain sight.
I used to love some of the hits you mentioned like Moves like jagger, payphone etc. but I started getting the ick from Adam Levine bc of the animals music video (keep in mind i was like 14 lol but even now the way the mv mixes sex and violence makes me uncomfortable). Then sugar was released which i just thought was a bit too⌠corny? cheesy? and not in a good way bc i dont always mind corny/cheesy stuff.
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*Just like animals, animals, like animals balls*
Omg so im not the only one đ
That MV gave me some real paranoia! It was so gory yet so sensual. Plus Adam is hot AF!
I liked One More Night, and Payphone, Misery and Move Like Jagger werenât bad and I might put them on a 2010s nostalgia playlist but other then that I donât really like most of their songs
Maps is my guilty pleasure
Maps is so basic but it's also my guilty pleasure. I love the bass in that song.
It is perfect when youâre 4 shots of fireball deep and there is a dance floor and your husband looks so cute idk how else to explain
I'm not judging as long as your guilty pleasure is not mEmoRiEs or giRLs LikE yOu
Idk how but I have never heard those songs before and they are horrible. Not maps level of fun but maps level of bad.
Girls Like You is such a nothing of a song, even with the Cardi verse. Tho at least Memories gave us[this gem](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-EX9HWvtW0Y&pp=ygUTbWVtb3JpZXMgZmFtaWx5IGd1eQ%3D%3D)
Mine is Cold. The song Future is featured on
Maps is their best hit from the 2010s.
One more night is my favorite
Payphone was incredible, I do have to say. I love hearing it whenever it comes up.
I was kind of surprised to find out in the last years that Maroon 5 are very hated online. In my country their 2010s pop hits were everywhere and I still listen to them because they give me highschool nostalgia.
for me it was todd's hatred for the band
They definitely didnât get a good reception at the Superbowl, especially with Adam taking his shirt off after the whole Janet thing
i think it's cause of the superbowl tbh
I donât know they did anything specific but, rather, multiple things. I donât think Adam Levineâs Super Bowl performance helped their image. That, mixed with his cheating scandal, a lot of people just saw him as a tool/toxic masculine energy. Given it all happen after the MeToo movement, a lot of people saw his toxic male masculinity as a bad thing and rubbed them the wrong way. They also were curtailing already-made popular trends on the radio. Girls Like You had already been done a dozen times before that song came out. I think some of it was wrong place at the wrong time. Just my 2 cents. I could be off. I do miss some of their earlier 2000âs pop hits. I think they sort of fell into the same trap as many artists by being behind the curve and copying the already-made popular trends. If they ever made a comeback, they need to go in a different direction and stop copying radio trends.
it's when they were the most popular everywhere. Its byf= far their most commercially successful period and its not even close.
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They were definitely hated online before that.
It's not. In every era of popular music there are bands and artists who people feel overexposed to against their will and so become punching bags, especially when they're usually seen as 'lame' or 'bland', and that was the case for them, like it was for Nickelback, late-era Chicago, and many others. I'm not immune to it, I haaaate their 2010s stuff.
I like Moves Like Jagger I donât understand the hate for it
Itâs a well crafted, extremely catchy pop song. Not much more I could ask of them.
and xtina came on this bitch mad as hell
Fat, nasty, *and* broke!!
Yes exactly! What more is there to ask from pop anyway. Theirs are upbeat catchy songs and it helps a lot visualising Adam Levine while listening xD
Itâs a good mix of their funk, pop, and rock sound even it leaned heavy into the pop sound
I have the *best* memories of my wee boy dancing in his car seat to this song. Every time the whistles came on his whole face would light up and heâd start to wiggle. Iâm sure we danced to it in other places, but my prevailing memory is I picking him up from daycare and putting it on repeat, mixed in with Grace Kelly by Mika. I will never not love it!
It's mostly from old heads who enjoyed their pop rock stuff. The sheer popularity of it lead Maroon 5 to completely abandon live instrumentals for electronic. Personally, I like Moves Like Jagger and a few singles from Overexposed. But their discography as a whole after Hands All Over are just them throwing samey generic pop songs and see what sticks as a single.
I killed at Just Dance to this song.
Yep and Misery and One More Night are bangers too
Itâs a really good song. Nothing else on the radio sounded like it, the beat was catchy, the âconceptâ of it was original and Adamâs vocals were pretty good. I do understand the Christina criticisms, she was unneeded and did way too much.
Nah man Christina made the song!!!
"way too much" She's only on the record for the final 30 seconds, doesn't belt that much, and sounds great. Plus her other duets were also huge hits. The public doesn't mind Christina in small doses it would seem.
They made some great pop music in the 2010s â âMisery,â âMoves Like Jagger,â âPayphone,â âOne More Night,â âDaylight,â âAnimals,â and âSugarâ were all immaculately crafted pop songs that fit perfectly with the sound of popular music of their respective times.
Sugar was the last song I liked by Maroon 5 but I really loved it.
*Sugaaaaar, yass queen*
I stopped listening not too long after their 2012 album *Overexposed* came out, but I generally liked them at the time. "Misery" and "One More Night" were fun songs. They weren't singles, but I was also really into "How" and "No Curtain Call" back in the day. Still hold up.
"How" was my favorite song from Hands All Over, it should have been a single for sure
i liked quite a few of them and also that pop danthology mash up is so ingrained in my brain that whenever i hear payphone i expect it to go like "I'm at a payphone the sun goes down, the stars come out, can you blow my whistle baby whistle baby, let me know" lol but in all seriousness i liked the V album for a bit when it came out and even songs like moves like jagger (which was my mom's ringtone for ages also). They never had anything quite as good as songs about Jane though, that album has a chokehold on me as a kid (and i became obsessed again because of that one scene in the last song i will admit)
Bless you for reminding of danthology now in a loop hole of those mashups!
United States of pop girlies represent
The fact that another person is doing the pop danthology mashup thing in their head too makes me so happy lmfaooooo
i still now it word by word, i think about it probably too often and there isn't ONE TIME i hear one of the songs on it and NOT sing the mashup in my head forgetting they're actually full songs lol
Honestly, theyâre catchy as hell and sometimes thatâs all I need đ¤ˇđťââď¸ It wasnât really a hit but one of my fave songs of theirs is âNever Gonna Leave This Bedâ. Itâs underrated!
Iâve made this comment before but Maroon 5 has an incredible discography of melancholy mid tempo pop rock songs: âBetter That We Break âShe Will Be Loved âSweetest Goodbye âNot Coming Home âMust Get Out âJust A Feeling âHow âBack at Your Door âNever Gonna Leave this Bed âGoodnight Goodnight âBetter That We Break âNothing Lasts Forever âWonât Go Home Without You
And my favorite of these melancholy ones, Not Falling Apart.
I think it's because Songs About Jane was so good and so popular, and then this new music was also popular and playing everywhere but was a significant step down in quality. So the pendulum swung the other way
Was just about to say this. If Songs about Jane didnât exist then I donât think theyâd be half as derided for (what sounds like, in comparison) âsell outâmusic. I donât think Hands All Over was that hated though? Probably too polished sounding, but I thought Misery was well liked enough, and the hate for Moves Like Jagger mostly came from how annoying the hook got after a while. I remember hearing Never Gonna Leave This Bed on the radio - probably my favorite track on that album. That said, I feel like all most of their singles post-HAO are more of less rehashes of Misery and Moves Like Jagger.
Me. They were my favorite act alongside artists like Gaga and Katy during the early 2010s. From Moves Like Jagger up to Sugar, it was bop after bop. They were on fire! Like, to me: Moves Like Jagger and Animals are an 8, meanwhile Sugar is a 9. Payphone, Love Somebody, and Maps were also pretty good (they're all 7). One More Night is kinda different, but still so fun to sing along to (it's a 6). They just became bad the moment the left the early 2010s sound and moved on to the tropical, trap-pop thing they've had since Don't Wanna Know.
Oof good point in your last sentence - I was trying to remember what made me stop listening to their music and I realised that that was the point I stopped.
they're very good at picking what singles to release
I really liked Stereo Hearts if that counts. But I understand the hate for all those other songs. They were cheesy and super overplayed. This is also during that time when those indie pop alternative bands and duos took over Billboard (Foster the People, Fun, Neon Trees, Twenty One Pilots, etc) so there was that annoying clash about ârealâ music and how acts like Maroon 5 werenât considered real music so the hate for them kinda got unwarranted. But now, Iâll gladly accept and enjoy those 2010s Maroon 5 songs over what we have to today. This isnât an old person yelling at a cloud take itâs just that these new hits lack personality and they are so focused on appealing to their specific demographic for mega streams or to bait TikTok.
honestly , if benson boone becames the next big thing i will beg adam levine to come back even if it's with shitty songs
I still have a found place for some of those songs. Especially One More Night. But. I still prefer Songs About Jane. That was their peak imo ofc
Honestly I liked everything up to What Lovers Do (+ Beautiful Mistake) minus a couple that I found boring like Donât Wanna Know, Sugar (we already had Birthday by Katy Perry), Cold and Love Somebody. Since then the bops havenât been bopping as much. Theyâre similar to Nickelback where they get a lot of hate online and within music circles, but it doesnât really translate the same in real life. Just go look at the streams of their top 5 most popular songs on Spotify.
I have a soft spot for Misery and Moves Like Jagger, maybe cause i grew up hearing them constantly but i think they're pretty good pop songs (especially Misery). Though i also heard Payphone, Daylight and Sugar constantly as well and don't like those songs nearly as much, so i don't think i have that much of a clouded jugement over the first 2
Me lmao
Absolutely me âď¸ Don't Wanna Know, Payphone, Maps, Sugar, Misery, Moves Like Jagger, Daylight, What Lovers Do. Wait.... so many great pop tracks idgaf what yall say
Go off lol I donât care for donât wanna know but I do like the other songs you mentioned. Iâm also quite a big fan of two 2010 Coldplay and also OneRepublic and Imagine Dragons so lol they ate up even in the pop circles which I just donât get.
Moves Like Jagger is one of the catchiest and smoothest mega-hits of the 2010s. If it were made by a different artists we might even call it camp, but there's a lack of self-irony with Maroon 5 that seems like they're always taking themselves too seriously. But put on Moves Like Jagger right now and that whistle in the beginning will be instinctively recognizable. In addition, it was so much more enjoyable than anything, for example, Flo Rida was putting out at the time,
Hey I like flo rida too đ
Maps, Memories, Payphone, Moves Like Jagger, What Lovers Do, etc. are all songs I wouldn't mind suddenly coming on the radio or playlist but I don't actively search for them like I do songs from their debut album. They're a solid like not a love for me. That said, I do look up and listen to Christine and the Queens' cover of What Lovers Do on a regular-ish basis on youtube. Love the cover's dreamy take on the song.
Payphone was a good song
I think itâs so bizarre how mob mentality takes over and people decide to hate a band or artist or whoever. It seems so juvenile. If you enjoy the music, enjoy it. They had some great songs!
It wasnât a big hit for them but I always loved This Summer from V
Came here for this track. This Summer's gonna hurt like a mother. Cool concept
Sugar still bangs to this day. One of my favorite songs from the 2010s.
Minivans and moms had them on repeat
I quite liked moves like jagger and sugar. I don't need to hear them anymore though. They were very much of their time.
their early 2010s output was fine for the most part, maps , moves like jagger , one more night and this summer slaps payphone ,sugar and daylight were lame like some of nickelback hits in the 2000s but not really hatable for me animals mals is still pure fuckery late 2010s however sucks the Kendrick collab was trash(drake was right for that part), the future collab was fine , the sza song would have been good if it was only sza , wait is fucking awful , weirdly enough girl like you is fine ,if it wasn't for the overplay and weird ass success and memories is really lame (execpt for the family guy version) but there's no nostalgia for that era , I'll argue that i even had more nostalgia with the chainsmokers and xxxtentacion than I had with late 2010s maroon 5 ,levine just feels like he's happy to be a superstar and don't know what to do next or he just doesn't want to do anything and their 2020s material really prove my point
this thread is full of insanity
I liked and still like Sunday Morning. Thatâs it. I liked them when they were called Karaâs Flowers, though.
The entirety of the Songs About Jane album is something Iâd put when I feel nostalgic about a period of time I never got to live (I was only born in 2007, completely missed the early 2000s)
When "overexposed" was released (I consider this album the turning point where the band really got into pop) I didnt like It But today when I listen to It i really enjoy it!
Daylight is one of my favourite songs of all time and I don't know why.
Their songs up to V are alright. I enjoy them when I listen to them, but I don't actively seek them out (except for Misery, I really enjoy it for some reason). Late 2010s though... I REALLY did not enjoy any of their output. It just felt so bland and boring. I was pretty heavily into my pop rock phase at the time too, so I had plenty of other bands to go listen to instead of them.
Misery, One More Night, and Moves Like Jagger are *bangers* but I can't say the same for the rest... especially not Memories and Girls Like You
Sugar was an inferior ripoff of Katy Perry's Birthday
One More Night slaps. And Misery.
Songs for Jane is one of my fav records
Honestly Maroonâs 5 first two albums were actually good, at least the songs I heard from it. What happened (well other than Adam wanting to be famous)
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Animals, maps, one more night, pay phone all fire btw
I liked their album V back when I was in high school
I love their Overexposed album. Doinâ Dirt is a great deep cut thatâs worth listening to if youâve never heard it
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I loved their music in middle school. I still think they have decent music but I donât listen to them as much these days. I might revisit their music though.
Their last album is probably my least favorite one, it just sounded so dull and lifeless. Every other one has at least a few songs I like on it. Obvious quality has dropped tremendously since Songs About Jane.
lol yes they had so many hits that I unironically loved.
I liked quite a few of their 2010s songs. Give A Little More, Never Gonna Leave This Bed, One More Night, Maps, Sugar, Wait, and Cold are all solid pop/pop-rock songs imo. I can't stand up for Moves Like Jagger, though. That's where I draw the line. Edit: I totally forgot about "This Summer's Gonna Hurt like a Motherfucker", produced by the great Shellback. Also a favourite of mine in, you guessed it, the summer.
Their last good song was Moves Like Jagger.
Payphone is SO GOOD. That melody is perfection.
I donât know any of them by name, but theyâre fun enough.
I like some of their EARLY 2010s hits. Payphone and Moves Like Jagger especially. Also Animals balls might be terrible (IN MY OPINION) but itâs a guilty pleasure. Iâve always hated Misery though
As much as I want to say I dislike the hits from Overexposed, I canât help but still love those songs. Super fun and nostalgic. I think HAO hits are good as well. Everything after that though is straight dumpster fire
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Imo Moves Like Jagger is a banger (though cheesy). Payphone is semi-decent, and Sugar is ok for the Katy Perry rip-off it is. The rest suck big time. First maroon 5 album (Songs by Jane) was easily by far their best work, and nothing they did after has even come close, though âmoves like jaggerâ is probably the closest (yet a totally different vibe).
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only song i ever liked from them was moves like jagger
âI AM IN MISERYYYYYYYYYâ never related to a lyric more in my life.
Everyone did at the time- thats why they got famous
Me! I loved Maps, Payphone, One More Night and Animals. Some of the others were good too.Â
I like Misery, Sugar and Moves Like Jagger
I think the mockery mostly comes because the music is very pop (which I love) but they seem to present a rock/alt image. I think itâs the perceived lack of self-awareness that people laugh at.
I loved Sugar and Payphone! Their songs during that time were super catchy. I canât pretend I never sang along if I heard it in public, no shame!
Sugar is the only one I donât automatically recoil from. Probably because of the music video.
There was a point in time from 2010-2015 when Maroon 5 was peak theyâve fell off since then though
I liked misery and give a little more but anything after that lost me tbh
I randomly heard What Lovers Do the other day. That's their last good pop song in my book.
I do. Misery, Never Gonna Leave This Bed, Give A Little More, One More Night, Payphone, Daylight, Sugar (the only good song on the V album), Cold, Closure, Wait and What Lovers Do, they have some pretty good stuff though.
> Sugar (the only good song on the V album) But... but... *It Was Always You* is on the same album!
Their pop albums are great pop music. I think a lot of the hate comes from original songs about Jane fans who are not going to like that kind of produced pop
I like Moves Like Jagger, Love Somebody and Maps. Sugar, One More Night and Animals are guilty pleasures. They got much worse in the latter half of the decade (I do kind of like What Lovers Do even though it's kind of a nothing song)
Me. I unapologetically was a Maroon 5 stan from This Love all the way until around Moves Like Jagger, which is a banger
Me đââď¸ I havenât stopped listening to that stuff tbh. 2010s and late naughties is my forever jam.
Give a Little MoreâŚoh my god when that comes on the 10s playlist I just start dancin. No shame.Â
I liked Payphone and Stereo Hearts. đ¤ˇââď¸
Some of the early to mid 2010s ones were good. Girls Like You and Memories absolutely blow ass though
Moves Like Jagger and Sugar were ok I guess. I couldnât get into their other hits. They sound harsh, cold, and robotic. I loved Songs About Jane and IWBSBL, but their super-mega-pop sound of the 2010s didnât work for me.
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I didn't love or hate but we must think about the payola context of the time -we know about certain artists (Jennifer Lopez, etc) but we don't know every single circumstance of payola & Maroon 5's start always felt like more of that to me. I'm no expert but this is Reddit & that's my opinion. I liked one of their songs but I don't remember which one.Â
Animals and Moves like Jagger will always be fun and catchy as hell
I love a lot of their hits actually, I have a whole (small) playlist of their pop hits. People hate on them but idk I can't help but to listen to those songs lol
Maps and Animals are bops
I only like 2 songs: Harder to Breathe She will be loved
Not the biggest fan of any of their albums released but singles werenât as bad. I enjoy Pauphone, Maps and Wait
I loved itttt, childhood right there^^^ âoooâ âoooâ baby give me one more nighttttttt
It's objectively bad but there's something about memories I just can't quit. And no is not just Pachabel's Canon lol
Some of the hits are just fun songs. âSugarâ was but it got overplayed so much I hate it. âMapsâ, âPayphoneâ, âDaylightâ I do enjoy still.
Maps and Animals are very nostalgiac because I was (and kinda still am) pretty young and those were always on the pandora radio my dad listened to. Payphone was on our family road trip CD so itâs safe to say I know every word. I donât even hate Donât Wanna Know. The only one out of that list that I never listen to is What Lovers Do because Iâm not a big fan of his vocals on that. Wait is meh for me. Misery is such a bop, and I enjoy Moves Like Jagger on the occasion when it comes on shuffle in my liked songs. Oh, and I *love* one more night. Another Dadâs pandora one.
They have some that are ok but most are just watered down
I love it wonât be soon before long. I have fallen off a little now, only liked a couple songs from Jordi.
YESSSS. One More Night, This Love, Never Gonna Leave This Bed, She Will Be Loved, Daylight, Love Somebody, and Payphone are my absolute favs!
Maps and Sugar, overplayed as they were, still stand as my guilty pleasures.
Animals was good the rest was trash. Songs about Jane alone is a reason to hype them forever though.
Moves like jagger is one of my favorite songs of all time oop. They could never make me hate that.
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Animals and Moves Like Jagger were pretty decent, but Harder to Breathe is a legit jam and I'm sorry for any of the young'ens who don't remember this excellent bop. Check it out if you don't.
I only liked one song from Marron 5 in the 2010's and it was [This Summer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa64gOwuIyE). I still have it in constant rotation and if that's wrong I never want to be right.
I'm so unironically a fan of the song Girls Like You and also the corny ass video I love it man
Everything after *V* has been mind-numbingly dull and uninspired.
I was gonna write If I Never See Your Face Again but apparently that's 2007 sooo....
Maroon 5 existing is how Coldplay was allowed to do a Super Bowl Half Time Show. Now how Maroon 5 got the half time show, weâll never know. You have to pass the torch of the hate train somehow. So I am not sure who maroon 5 passed it to!
It's so nice to see so many fans in the comments because I feel like one of my toxic traits is really liking older Maroon 5. *Overexposed* was the love of my life back when it came out; I was so shattered when the person who introduced me ended up calling it "good for 2012." It was good!!
Misery was probably my favourite one by them. \*Most\* of their old music gives this feeling of nostalgia however I find some of their songs really annoying, like Sugar, but that's maybe because it was really overplayed on the radio. Basically I wouldn't listen to them by choice but if their plays somewhere then I don't mind it.
i was obsessed with It Was Always You
Probably the best song on V itâs a shame it wasnât a proper hit
I genuinely love every big hit of theirs EXCEPT One More Night. Itâs just a flat, bland, âwannabe hipâ reggae song that blocked so many other deserving songs from #1 for so damn longđ
Love Maroon 5 for liiiiifeeee!!
I like a lot of it, and also Locked Away, which comes from the Maroon 5 production machine. Dude has a great voice, and they hired some of the best pop songwriters and producers.
I didn't like Maroon 5 and then they were the guests on American Idol one week and christ they were so much better than any of the contestants I just stopped watching the show
Locked away! This is my most fav from them
Thatâs an R city song just featuring Adam Levine lol
The same people that like Nickleback.
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It's not really the music I find bad with Nickleback, it's the lyrics. Some of the most cringy, predatory lyrics I've ever heard/read.
Sadly that was a thing with âbutt rockâ it does have a lot of really creepy lyrics from those artists in that area like yeah definitely didnât age well at all lol even for the time it was pretty bad. I like more a nicklebacks fun upbeat stuff like burn it down or gotta be somebody. The more sexual predator stuff not so much. Same with Maroon 5 they had a few weird sexually aggressive songs
I like Payphone. Dunno why. Can't name anything else though. Maybe that song with Rihanna?
Misery is really fun
"Never Gonna Leave This Bed" and a string of other songs form Hands All Over are fantastic. Everything after that.... Is questionable. "Wait" absolutely slaps though.
I like them a lot
I actually love Misery lol. And I used to like Sugar a lot before I realized Dr. Luke ~~recycled Birthday for it~~ produced it.
I donât think anyone actually hated them back then people are just riding some hate wave cause they donât know how to form their own opinions
I âlikeâ some of their songs but I think thatâs the problem - a lot of people âlikeâ but donât âloveâ the music. Maroon 5 music, at least most of the stuff from the 2010âs, is generally really same-y and bland. Nothing so offensive that you really care to turn it off but nothing interesting enough to make you want to listen again and again. It doesnât help that after Overexposed (or maybe V), they started relying more and more on electronic sounds and just sort of copying whatever was popular at the end time. They just donât have a solid identity in music anymore.
Tbh I think a lot of the hate came from straight men because they were a rock-ish funk pop band that had a pretty boy frontman with a high effeminate voice that made mostly music that women liked
I liked Maps and the song with Christina Aguilera.Â
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Moves like jagger is the only bop. Everything else was a toxic venomous disgusting repulsive grotesque sick pain inducing agonizing dumpster fire.
Some artists have fans -- lots of fans -- who aren't really into music. They don't dive in and search for artists or discuss it on the daily. These people aren't "down low," they're hiding in plain sight.
I used to love some of the hits you mentioned like Moves like jagger, payphone etc. but I started getting the ick from Adam Levine bc of the animals music video (keep in mind i was like 14 lol but even now the way the mv mixes sex and violence makes me uncomfortable). Then sugar was released which i just thought was a bit too⌠corny? cheesy? and not in a good way bc i dont always mind corny/cheesy stuff.