DEEP DISCOG DIVE: Maroon 5

[@Calico_Kara]

cant believe they based a whole album in the name of my flowers

[@michaelvessel4604]

Must have been some really amazing flowers then

[@saultfry501]

Actually, an entire band.

[@projectc.j.j3310]

I got it, cause your name is Kara

[@MaxMax-zo9vq]

Damn you got five of those bad boys?

[@adrugagainstwar]

Damn

[@jamesforrest9837]

what's funny is how adam levine managed to make maroon 5 sound like his solo act when it's actually a band, while brendon urie managed to make panic at the disco sound like a whole band when it's essentially a solo act.

[@jackroberts2704]

The other Maroon 4 must have a nice life just collecting royalties

[@aceroy9195]

And then you get the best of both worlds with Brandon Flowers

[@ploploplop2349]

this comment gets better after p!atd "breaking up"

[@davidbanan.]

Bruh yeah, I thought Panic! At the Disco from when i first heard of em untill like a year ago

[@vxcvxmcrposfdsdfulpdfg]

​@@davidbanan.Homeboy forgot to finish his sentence lmao

[@grahamkristensen9301]

A while back, I had this idea for a TV show inspired by Maroon 5. It's a mockumentary about this successful band whose singer is the only one the public cares about, so while the singer gets all the fame, groupies, brand deals and press coverage, the rest of the band gets to just fart around and do whatever without much attention. Think of it like a cross between Parks & Rec and Metalocalypse. There'd be a running gag where the singer would show up every few episodes but you'd never see his face due to some clever blocking, except for the final episode where we finally see his face, and he's played by Adam Levine.

[@sameenshakya5188]

I promise I will become rich, come find you, and finance this show

[@itamarkazakevitch8700]

I’m imagining veep and parks and rec combined…I’m stealing this

[@nikovz4719]

😂😂

[@embunchofnumbers]

Like the Muse guys who aren’t Matt Bellamy

[@bisexualmajima]

Have you ever seen the music video for My Band by D12? Cause this is basically that.

[@mctheplaywright]

“I know this was named after a dead friend, but that’s no reason to make an album that’s so LIFELESS” fuckin brutal dude

[@Koersky]

I heard that and couldn’t believe it lmao

[@rogerioangelinjr]

We all collectively gasped

[@freddysamjacob363]

Right?!! I was like "Oh Shittt 😂" when he told that

[@thomasnelson5758]

Holy shit lmfao

[@ploue589]

the meanest thing mic has ever said lmao holy shit that's not a high bar to clear but still

[@lizzard4890]

"Jagger" being the only thing people could think of to rhyme with "Swagger" in the mid 2010s was a low point for us as humanity for sure

[@MustafaAshah-el9nc]

Tbh jagger has always been so influential

[@Lil_Yuri]

Nowadays the kids just make words up smh *《shakes cane in a mildly menacing manner》*

[@eliasmg9144]

Dagger

[@nateds7326]

But like what the hell else rhymes with swagger? Bag her, snag her, nagger, bragger... Ok it's not nothing but still

[@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770]

WRONG. You’re WRONG. That was in the early 2010s. NOT the mid 2010s.

[@cynthiawang7212]

i didn’t realize i knew so many maroon 5 songs. don’t know how to feel about that

[@lemusthealien]

they are truly inescapable

[@rcusick2465]

I hope somebody will GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO BELIEVE, CUZ YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN THEM ANYMORE, ANYMOOOORE

[@mr.worldwide4758]

You don't wanna know, know, know, know how you know so many Maroon 5 songs, songs, songs, songs

[@kelvinnguyen7883]

The most impressive thing about Maroon 5 is the fact that they have managed to coast long enough to outlive the 20 year rule. With the retro 2000s movement gaining so much steam Levine would be an idiot not to embrace it. Even if that means throwing back to hinself.

[@cityboy2092]

I mean, they got their start all the way back in 2002. Who tf from 2002 is still successful and selling out concerts and on the radio? Especially other bands that were big at the time, rock or not. Say what you will about Maroon 5, but if they never have another hit again, 20 years of nonstop success is something that only an extremely select few in the history of the music business have ever been able to achieve, and they should be proud

[@gx1tar1er]

Coldplay is an another band that outlive the 20 year rule.

[@JonConstruct]

@@cityboy2092 Beyonce is the only one I can think of

[@bisexualmajima]

​@@cityboy2092 honestly in terms of rock/rock-adjacent music it's more common than you'd think because the radio friendly chunk of the genre stagnated so hard, it's not like the transition from the 70s to 80s or 80s to 90s where every prog band went in a poppier direction or every hair metal band tanked completely because of the new subgenres (grunge of course being the main one) replacing it. Coldplay and fucking Nickelback are still around because hip hop overtook it as the thing that has a popular innovative new subgenre every few years.

[@broghad8241]

@@gx1tar1er Coldplay is a sad shell of its former self and you know it

[@mystery1317]

The “pop songs constantly mentioning Mick Jagger” phenomenon was so wild to me bc I’m not from the US and was like 13 at the time having no idea who tf Mick Jagger was and why so many people were talking about him. Very “I have no idea who Mick Jagger is and at this point I’m afraid to ask”

[@uyes-cy8yk]

mick jaggers british tho

[@qwerty1234234]

@@uyes-cy8yk came here to say this

[@goozygo102]

I'm from the US and had no clue who Mick Jagger was. Still don't

[@fredroberts8275]

Well even funnier he is British.

[@daishoryujin95]

@@goozygo102 Lead singer of the Rolling Stones.

[@dayshalang]

The maroon 5 downfall is tragic BUT the panic at the disco downfall is just… devastating

[@dayshalang]

Constant L’s

[@zebgf261]

fucking true. off a cliff into the earth's core

[@eliasmg9144]

Yeah, at least Maroon 5 always has the same levels of succes, patd looked like they would make it and then they fell hard (and by they I mean what's left of it)

[@witchbvrner]

There's a joke in there somewhere about writing tragedies...

[@kmxrie]

honestly now we need a PATD DDD

[@ricardoediza2690]

I love how the only songs Mic has dedicated a DDD to are AJR’s I’m Ready, Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, and Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5. Definitely the songs of all time

[@BrendanJSmith]

If he doesn't give the same treatment to Good Vibrations when he eventually covers The Beach Boys, I'm gonna be super pissed.

[@totororaptors]

​@@BrendanJSmithhe still has not done a beach boys DDD and it makes me so sad

[@BrendanJSmith]

@@totororaptors I'm honestly hoping he saves The Beach Boys for his 100th Dive. And he makes it an 8-hour-long event video where he covers EVERYTHING in their history. All the crazy stories and lore. No other act in history has been capable of such transcendent highs and such embarrassing lows. Deep Discog Dive was made for The Beach Boys. He NEEDS to do them justice.

[@totororaptors]

@@BrendanJSmith i would love that but i just said this cause ive gotten super into them recently. i orignally thought of them as a very iconic but kinda corny 60s band that made music about surfing and summer but god theres so much history to them and so much insane shit to their history like thier relationship with the manson family and brian wilson's upbringing and the absolute hell that was smile's production

[@robertlee2092]

They somehow sound like less of a band the more members they gain.

[@Setashi]

The quality dropoff between every Maroon 5 album is like falling down some stairs lmao.

[@prpldragon64]

😂😂😂

[@himbokoopa]

nah they didn’t even fall down the stairs, they fell off fucking mount thor

[@RoomieOfficial]

Songs About Jane is a masterpiece 💿 “This Love” is a really unique song musically imo, try to find another mainstream pop song that starts its progression with the dominant chord leading to the minor tonic with the 3rd in the bass 🤓

[@RoomieOfficial]

Also this video is abolutely stellar! sorry I just had to express my Aongs About Jane nostalg… i mean objective appreciation first. You’re killing it dude

[@stratford1]

Hey Roomie

[@matiaspereyra9375]

Waddup Lil pitchy

[@thatbloodypanda6989]

Make better content

[@luistijerina]

Songs About Jane isn’t even the best Maroon 5 album

[@thedogfromraditude5449]

Maroon 5 is like that kid you were friends with in elementary school, and then you see them again in high school and they’re so popular now that they don’t care about you at all.

[@RachelMay1989]

I'm now going to have to resist the urge to ask myself "Does Adam Levine know what this is?" when faced with ostensibly normal objects and concepts. Does Adam Levine know what a spork is? Does Adam Levine know the capital of Greece?

[@Genny-Zee]

Woah this comment

[@carly7522]

That's so mean. And accurate. He looks like he's hiding being confused all the time. I needed that laugh, thank you.

[@ThisDude234]

Does Adam Levine know what the fox says?

[@RachelMay1989]

@@ThisDude234 Exactly! I suspect not.

[@RachelMay1989]

@@carly7522 That's so funny, Mean and Accurate was my nickname at school.

[@coryleaver31]

Moves Like Jagger fascinates me so much. You can use it to pinpoint down to the microsecond when Adam Levine stopped trying. It's shocking, really.

[@GregCubed]

Yeah it’s nuts. The 3 albums preceding it were one thing, then moves like Jagger independently comes out, then the following albums were almost an entirely different project.

[@snoozyq9576]

The popularity of this song definitely depressed me

[@jijitters]

It's not a bad song at all and I'm not sure why people pretend it is. It's just incredibly basic. Every artist at some point does something more mainstream to bring in new people. Moves Like Jagger is not the issue at all, it's that they stuck to only making that kind of song forever after that. Occasional singles like that would have been perfectly fine. But nearly the full discography? Not the same Maroon 5.

[@BrendanJSmith]

Moves Like Jagger really overstayed its welcome in popular culture by at least five years

[@phelanii4444]

They got Stevie Nicks on a Maroon 5 album?!?!? What sort of black magic have they done to make that happen? Especially on that latest album? Dear god...

[@aquariussolaris2492]

She needed to pay the rent

[@nateds7326]

Maroon 5 is if you took a classic Shakespherean tragedy and made it into a band. Started off with such promise, but slowly over time fell from grace. Except in this metaphor the main character doesn't die and the play keeps going on forever and everyone in the theater just wants to go home.

[@CherrySprings]

Maroon 5 is the Simpsons of music

[@Robbity]

In Bo Burnham’s Repeat Stuff music video, he has a moment where he sings at girls but every cut has a different girl in the shot in order to show how a lot of modern pop songs are written as vague as possible in order to create parasocial relationships. So yeah, Maroon 5 did the same thing genuinely in the Girls Like You music video, proving Bo’s point. Just thought that was interesting.

[@amberdent651]

Having seen Adam Levine play some low-key jam sessions and/or collab on The Voice with other musicians, and now having listened to some of the music their keyboardist has done, I have my theory for why Maroon 5 is still around: all the members know that it's a consistent cash cow, and then they can use that money to fuck off and do whatever interesting thing they like. No pressure to be "good" in the traditional sense (critical acclaim), but plenty of continuous money and radio play. I've seen when Adam Levine is really interested in what he's doing, and to me, it's really obvious that he sees Maroon 5 the way I see my day job, and anything interesting he might be doing musically isn't anything he bothers to record or release outside of some small live venues.

[@PlanetXerox]

plus, and let's be real here, the reason they sold out in the first place is due to the fact that the first time they were a band they flopped horribly. my guess is that they're doing all this because they're vehemently scared of another Fourth World scenario

[@velocirabbit43]

My physics teacher is literally obsessed with maroon 5. He plays it during the beginning and end of class and a few times during tests. It’s so funny but at the same time I want to die it makes physics that much more excruciatingly painful

[@SergioMenaGTS]

This is one of the greatest comments I’ve read on this goddamned site

[@broghad8241]

A literal NPC He most be researched and examined at all costs!

[@flippy7035]

Literally my 11th grade math teacher.

[@turtlestuff7]

love that pfp

[@pixelbomb97]

Sometimes it really sucks to be a hipster. I remember that Maroon 5's first 3 albums were the first 3 cd's in my first car. This band used to make me feel things when I sang along to them, but because the shit I like just isn't profitable enough, my favorite band stagnated into a sound I hate.

[@sunriseparrabellum5505]

there really are few things more painful than watching a band you love devolve into something unrecognizable

[@pentexsucks43]

It's so painful, I still have pointless hope they'll do a throwback album that sounds like the 1st two albums, but I know it'll never happen.

[@snoozyq9576]

I liked their first few cd's too. But what does this have to do with being hipster?

[@RyanStorey1231]

@@pentexsucks43 The only way that'll happen is if they stop having hits.

[@joaquinlezcano2372]

​@@snoozyq9576maybe because back then it wasn't cool enough, therefore they changed to appeal more

[@MelvinDukowski]

I agree with Todd. Maroon 5 is the new Chicago. Started as a decent band with merit before becoming the biggest sell outs and making the worst version of their respective era's pop music.

[@Lil_Yuri]

I am only a few minutes in but holy shit I HAVE LITERALLY MADE THIS COMPARISON as well!

[@BrendanJSmith]

Can we consider the Black Eyed Peas the hip-hop variant?

[@Falxifer95]

@@BrendanJSmith They absolutely are. As much as I agree with Mic that "sellout" is a dumb buzzword, acts like Maroon 5 and the Black Eyed Peas are the literal definition of selling out to a tee.

[@thebasedgodmax1163]

difference is Chicago were better songwriters.

[@chrystals.4376]

And their hits are enjoyable.

[@jorgeortega6806]

Maroon 5 is truly the M. Night Shyamalan of music

[@TheKevlar4]

Have you ever seen a Shyamalan movie? Terrible comparison.

[@BrendanJSmith]

Except Shyamalan managed to bounce back in recent years.

[@kostajovanovic3711]

@@TheKevlar4 yes, the comparison is spot on

[@funky35791]

M night has actually made good movies tho

[@Falxifer95]

​@@BrendanJSmith until he didn't after Glass

[@ChapLagoon417]

I would love to see a deep discogdive of Matchbox Twenty/Rob Thomas. I feel like no one has ever talked about them positively or negatively and that really surprises me. 20 million albums sold, collectively the most weeks #1 on adult pop radio before Maroon 5 got huge, basically the kings of mini-van rock, yet nothing. Thanks for being awesome. I love everything you do.

[@MrSkerpentine]

I legit wouldn’t know he even existed if it wasn’t for Smooth becoming a meme in the SoundClown/mashup community, it’s wild

[@johnmarcdegaard6589]

His solo stuff is super underrated. Lonely No More is an absolute banger

[@RyanStorey1231]

@@johnmarcdegaard6589 "Her Diamonds" too. The emotion in that song.

[@meganspalletta-ferrari6638]

I actually plan on using his one Disney song (Little Wonders) as my wedding song, which is now prompting me into a deep dive. His voice is actually really good!

[@ChapLagoon417]

@@meganspalletta-ferrari6638 I used that one too!

[@Claudia-iq2kp]

Fun fact “Tangled”, “Secret”, “Not Coming Home” and “Kiwi” all feature backing vocals from Rashida Jones of all people. Talk about degrees of separation

[@SmoothCriminal12]

I'd love to know how that ended up happening.

[@edsterrock]

Brie Larson also sang backups on a track from Overexposed.

[@joemolnar3]

For real though, that song "Lost Stars" is PHENOMENAL and Gregg Alexander is the most underrated songwriter in the business

[@BeckyLStoutWriter]

I'm sure I'm not the only one to make this comparison, but Maroon 5 is like those TV shows that last a decade or more and yet you can't find a single person who watches them.

[@rachaelbrown3656]

Greys Anatomy…really popular that descends into ridiculousness but clearly people still watch it because it keeps getting renewed despite most of the hype around it being posts about it needing to end.

[@eggsrsweet]

Love them or hate them, you do have to admit it’s kind of impressive how they’ve managed to stay relevant all these years later. Similar to Coldplay too I would say. There’s not a lot of bands from that era that are still together and as massively relevant/successful as those two are.

[@RobVespa]

Financially viable and relevant have different meanings. Also... "from that era"? When dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Hey, I spotted Thom Yorke in the wild! OMG. It's a Paul McCartney. I thought they were extinct!

[@jasminericenic]

paramore and arctic monkeys i feel hold that title, but at least their sounds changed in good ways lol

[@drone124]

Many bands remain active for a long time but this particular comparison between Maroon 5 and and Coldplay is very accurate

[@mr.worldwide4758]

@@jasminericenic Paramore and Arctic Monkeys are from a little bit later than Maroon 5 and Coldplay though.

[@stevieg8356]

Do people actually listen to Maroon 5 these days?! They haven’t made a decent album since 2010, and their last two albums were unlistenable. I find it hard to believe people would still listen to them! Coldplay’s latest album was poor but wasn’t Maroon 5 scale poor.

[@FrankDaTank39]

I love that Moves Like Jagger got its own segment on this dive. The only time I think of that happening is when he did a segment for Bohemian Rhapsody. Moves like Jagger has gotten the same treatment as Bohemian Rhapsody and that is hilarious

[@philly_sports1558]

Songs About Jane is a legitimately solid pop rock/alternative rock album. It’s a shame the band strayed so far away from that sound.

[@slaytoncruise]

they fr had a lightning in a bottlle with their first 2 albums

[@kmxrie]

It truly was their best album ever.

[@lyzetteg]

Sunday Morning IS Maroon 5's best song!!

[@happycamperds9917]

Wow, glad you're covering the legendary musicians who rhymed "you" with "ooh-ooh"!

[@husvidfloden]

this could be more than one song

[@oceanmelody3783]

everytime a maroon 5 song comes on the radio at work I feel like I'm being conditioned to like them

[@jeremyusreevu237]

Fun fact: If you look in the dictionary for the phrase "Fell Off", you'll literally just get a picture of Maroon 5.

[@mitzo4526]

Fucking true

[@muzzyLimon]

you know it's true when jeremy "goat" reev says it

[@ringer1324]

The legend is here

[@maryfreegirl2029]

Youre famous apparently lol The goat fr

[@syntheticmemez7744]

Common Jeremy W

[@GibusWearingMann]

I actually wonder if their current pop success is causing their 2000s output to be forgotten, to the point where once they call it quits their music will be forgotten entirely. You could say it really makes me--

[@cityboy2092]

I saw Maroon 5 in concert last year (no shame, they have bops. Argue with your mother). I went in thinking that it was gonna be a bland, lily-white and middle-aged crowd of stuffy parents there because they're too threatened by more edgy musicians. Holy shit was I wrong. Without question, the most diverse crowd I've ever been a part of. Every race, age, shape and size was there in full force. Little kids, teens, young adults, parents, grandparents, Black, White, Asian, Hispanic, etc. Every last imaginable demographic was there. Two twin kids no older than 9 right in front of me and a Black man at least in his mid-60's right behind me. And Maroon 5 knew exactly what the audience wanted to hear. They didn't play a single album cut. Nothing but hits from front to back and the crowd LOVED it. The aisles between seats literally turned into a dance party and everybody was singing and dancing together and it was honestly kinda beautiful. There wasn't a single ounce of animosity in the air. Everybody was just going buckwild and having the time of their lives. While it was a good concert (by no means the best I've ever been to), something about Maroon 5's music brought people together to have a such a joyous time and it makes me smile thinking back on that night

[@ATBPRODUCTlONS]

Ah yes, the band that Todd in the Shadows tolerates about as much as Chicago. Songs about Jane is great though.

[@mocapcow2933]

Idk. I started trusting Todd a lot less after last years top 10 lists. He truly is a changed man.

[@MelMelodyWerner]

@@mocapcow2933 tbh, guy's always been fun, but never been particularly insightful. he always has an extremely surface level understanding of lyrics, which always leads to him not viewing a lyric poetically (e.g. him saying that the phrase is "salt in the wounds", not "a wound in salt" as the lyrics to good4u go, which is just a useless and anti-intellectual criticism, on a level perfectly apropos of Nostalgia Critic) or misinterpreting a lyric which makes perfect sense from the culture it was written within (see: him slamming that "Arcade" song* because he didn't know that arcades in Denmark generally have the connotation of being like casinos in America (not to mention how most arcades in America are essentially just glorified casinos too nowadays)). these are much bigger issues with taking him seriously as a critic than him putting MGK on his best of list. *which is an insipid song as is, there were so many other, better ways of digging into why it sucks, but this was basically his entire rant on it. he even mentions something like, "I may be missing some cultural context here," and it's like? yeah, duh, no shit. have you not seen an arcade in 2021, my guy? they're basically just slot machines with extra steps, lol. I've always been of the mind that it doesn't matter what you like or dislike as a critic, but how you substantiate your stances. and Todd honestly, continuously offers some pretty bad arguments for why a song is not up to snuff (sometimes the inverse). it's still fun to watch him, but I've rarely put much stock in his reviews.

[@grahamkristensen9301]

@@MelMelodyWerner To be fair, Todd has been doing pop song reviews less and less these days. I think he's a great musical historian, and One Hit Wonderland and Trainwreckords lean into those strengths a lot better

[@joaquinlezcano2372]

@@grahamkristensen9301 I must be the only one who found half oh his pop reviews boring. I'm already aware those songs are bad or pointless, make somehting else. There's a reason why Trainwreckords and One Hit Wonderland are much praised.

[@kostajovanovic3711]

@@MelMelodyWerner his saving grace for the past years has been trainwrecords

[@GregCubed]

In a weird way, Maroon 5 selling out like they did made their early stuff stand out way more. Had they just faded away going into the 2010s I probably never would have taken interest in them outside of maybe knowing a few early hits and not caring. The fact that they so aggressively turned into the money chasing Adam-centric pop machine and stuck around a solid 12 years past their expiration date just continuously eroding their quality is super fascinating to me. I almost hyperfixate on this band just because I find their career trajectory so interesting. I really have grown to enjoy those early records due to the sharp contrast of what came after. Definitely the band of all time

[@AlexKawa20]

That's actually a really good point. I love Songs About Jane and It Won't Be Soon Before Long. They're very well-written and well-performed albums. However, would I have the same fondness for them if Maroon 5 didn't turn into the atrocity that they would become? I don't know. I'd probably just see them as very good albums, and nothing more than that. My love for them almost definitely does have something to do with rose-colored glasses based on what they became. Either way though, singles like Harder to Breathe, This Love, Makes Me Wonder, and Wake Up Call would still stand the test of time, as I can safely say those are some of my favorite rock(ish) songs of the 2000s, at least in terms of ones that were big hits.

[@iammatthewdavid03]

I remembered when I was in my teenage years and I was a big Maroon 5 fan. And then I expanded my music tastes lol

[@maryfreegirl2029]

Literally me

[@PlanetXerox]

me as well 💀

[@lewislockwood9402]

Honestly, not including any of One More Night was a stroke of genius. Pausing the video, opening up a new tab (incognito obviously) and searching maroon 5 one more night only to hear what that song actually was hit me like a fucking truck

[@BrendanJSmith]

Meaning?

[@camillaquelladegliaggettiv4303]

My favorite piece of Maroon 5 trivia is that, before joining them, Matt Flynn played with Gandhi, a band headed by Page Hamilton of Helmet. There's a Gandhi demo floating around KZbin, and some of its songs even made their way into later Helmet album. If you know anything about Helmet you know how far their sound is from Maroon 5's

[@heather2503]

HELMET MAROON FIVE CROSSOVER

[@camillaquelladegliaggettiv4303]

@@heather2503 moves like Betty?

[@heather2503]

Milques like toast

[@thatbloodypanda6989]

You should do a deep discog dive on Prince just because it would be so much effort. 39 studio albums, 3 posthumous albums, a few deluxe editions with like 30 bonus tracks each. It would be fun.

[@khalewren2734]

Hey guess what

[@thatbloodypanda6989]

@@khalewren2734 it was everything I dreamt of

[@ronan-outoftime]

how does it feel to have totally called it

[@wafflesthewookiee4716]

I don’t know why, but the HI GARTH always gets me rollicking, love these long running memes you use in multiple vids. I enjoy your humor.

[@Mossiccie]

Maybe its a bit of an obscure track, but my Maroon 5 nostalgia is for a feature Adam Levine did with Canadian rapper K'Naan on his song Bang Bang. It's just such a peppy, silly song and it still makes me smile to think of it.

[@Daffz]

U right for this one

[@TRIGG262]

I literally dropped everything I was doing cause maroon 5 is a guilty pleasure band for me, IWBSBL is still in rotation to this day!

[@maryfreegirl2029]

old maroon 5 stuff is great idgaf

[@clementinelives]

@@maryfreegirl2029 what about recently? 😈

[@maryfreegirl2029]

@@clementinelives lets not talk about it lol

[@person_people8134]

Same. Can’t Stop is a banger

[@xxBieberLevineLovexx]

i have a love/hate relationship with m5 too iwbsbl + it’s b sides are literally amazing and i’ll die on that hill lol

[@gemmamoon5998]

The intensity and genuineness with which you say, “Thank you Wiz Khalifa, I love you.” kills me lmaooo

[@gemini_moons]

absolutely did not expect this 😭 but makes me wonder will always be a bop

[@jedshaffer5956]

Maroon 5 are musical tofu. They absorb the things they are adjacent to, giving you a simulacrum of a flavor you like without actually being the flavor. But that also means they’re entirely synthetic, lacking in an identity of their own. They’re a substance that lacks its own substance. That gives them malleability, but also disposability, since the same experience can be gotten elsewhere and in better form. I don’t hate Maroon 5 for this, because there’s nothing to hate. There’s also nothing for me to like.

[@lepercolony8214]

I know people say this as a joke but I am deadly serious: This is insulting to tofu.

[@booboosnack]

@@lepercolony8214 fr, and the thing with tofu is that the value and flexibility lies in what you make of and from it

[@jedshaffer5956]

@@booboosnack But that's my point: it exists not to stand on its own, but to become something by imitating something else. It's not chicken, but it can be flavored like chicken, but that also means it's an approximation of chicken and not the real thing. Its flexibility comes at the cost of lacking an identity of its own; it absorbs and simulates, but never creates. Just like Maroon 5.

[@lepercolony8214]

@@jedshaffer5956 the issue is when you try to make it approximate another protein rather than treat it as its own thing. Like, everything you cook should have some sort of seasoning or other added flavor; does that mean everything is flavorless by itself?

[@jedshaffer5956]

@@lepercolony8214 But everything has its own natural flavor. Whether it's a protein or a vegetable or a grain, it all has its own flavor. Yes, you CAN season proteins, but they still have an inherent, natural flavor. You don't add tofu to a recipe for the taste of tofu. Its purpose is a substitute for something else, adopting the flavor of whatever it's being cooked with. A good cut of steak doesn't need to be seasoned if it's cooked right; you can't say that about tofu. I'm not saying that's a bad thing. That's just its function. If you're angry I've besmirched the good name of tofu, you've taken it the wrong way; it's a comparison about how tofu and Maroon 5 have no identity of their own; they're wholly dependent on what's around them to define them.

[@theedgyjesus]

songs about Jane will always be one of my favorite albums of all time.

[@Infinite_voyager]

One of the few albums I own physically, it’s such a classic!

[@taylorwilliams4847]

I have it on VINYL. I love it

[@snoozyq9576]

One of my first too. It was great.

[@birdwatching_u_back]

~22:00 Hypothesis: the obsession with talking about Jagger in that period arose not from an obsession with the man himself, but from the fact that it rhymes with the hot new slang term of the day, “swagger”. Swagger was the primary target, and Jagger was merely caught in the crossfire. From here, with the name Jagger now embedded in the public lexicon, Maroon 5 was only taking the next logical step...(?)

[@jmckenzie962]

Yeah this theory definitely holds up. I'm pretty sure it was Kesha who started the whole "Swagger/Jagger" thing in her song "Tik Tok", and the next logical step was taken by Cher Lloyd who made a whole song out of it with "Swagger Jagger" - a song that is still to this day one of the worst songs I've ever heard. And so I guess Maroon 5 represented the final culmination of that absolutely insane trend when they made a song about how Adam Levine had the "moves like Jagger" (still an absolutely buckwild mental image) without even mentioning Swagger at all.

[@lazarpeuraca9618]

"i know it's named after a dead friend, but that's no reason to make an album so lifeless" i spat out my drink, man, when you're not pulling your punches, you're *really* not pulling your punches

[@JuniperJadePR]

"You will like at least one song on each album" pretty much sums up Maroon 5's staying power.

[@martimpardal]

Since the twitter tease I knew we were in for an all-timer. And as much as I can't stand most of their hits, I do still enjoy the hell out of those early first two records singles.

[@PantheraRex]

I have never listened to a full Maroon 5's album, but I absolutely love some of their singles. "This Love", "Makes Me Wonder", and "Misery" are great and fresh songs (maybe because I don't hear that type of sound in modern music). "Moves Like Jagger" is a bop, and I love the energy that Christina brings to that song. And omg, the four singles of Overexposed just bring me so much nostalgia for my early teenage years (especially "Love Somebody", I love it). "Maps" is okay, and I do like "Animals". But "Sugar" though? I'm in love with that song: It's funny, it's carchy, it's simple. Post-Sugar Maroon 5's music hasn't hit the same to me, but that's mostly because I HATE the popular sound of 2017-2020 trap, hip hop and / or tropical beats that were everywhere back then. I'm curious about their future. I just don't see them reaching the same heights as the ones from the early 2010's, but it's interesting to see what they do next

[@polinamatsapey3540]

found myself knowing a lot of songs despite not caring for their music that much. it's a really interesting phenomenon how they remained occasionally popular on such level. they even do not have a complete flop album anyway, great dive as usual!

[@thesunnygirl96ify]

I'm so glad to see you calling Sunday Morning their best song (probably)! I still love Songs about Jane and this song in particular has always had a special place in my heart. I listened to it as a teenager during my first airplane flights to get over my anxiety during takeoff and landing

[@wombatcountry]

I hate how nostalgic I am for the singles from the first five albums

[@melissaperez5370]

Maroon 5 was my first concert (2014) for that alone i have a soft spot for them and their music

[@scotttesser1537]

I've stuck with them for so long simply because they were my first CD and first musical love. The early melody driven music they made led to me modern alternative rock and a lot of great classic rock that I deeply enjoy. Their new albums are definitely not my favorite, but I can usually find a song or two in there that scratches that original itch that they did for me. Also REALLY glad you shouted out Closure! That song feels like the band honestly getting closure on them being a musical act like they were, and saying goodbye to it with one long band R&B jam session for the ages. I never thought I would have an 11 minute song on repeat, but it's simply amazing.

[@jasonyoung5628]

For the longest time I thought Moves Like Jagger was called Moves Like Dragons. That whistling is vaguely "oriental" and I only ever heard it in background situations, like at work. I had no idea that song is 12 years old. Midwest pop radio just plays whatever and I haven't paid attention to who is on the charts for like two decades.

[@musicbydemarcus]

“But I’m not gonna pretend like we’d remember it if these guys didn’t make animals mals” Someone help me off the floor 😂

[@zichenafrog]

Maroon 5's V album was the first album I ever owned. I think everything that happened in their career, before and after V was worth it, just for that one album

[@kevinwillems8720]

I don't know if this is the first DDD, where at the end I've said, "No thank you." Main thing I think about them, is once they opened for Mustard Plug, and Mustard Plug apologized to the audience. Any other random thoughts about Maroon5 are negative, whereas seeing Mustard Plug, with Catbite opening, was what I needed after a bad breakup and a night ill cherish forever.

[@kevinwillems8720]

Now, let it be said, probably a little insensitive at the time, but well surcharges in hindsight.

[@nkozi]

As someone who was an honest to goodness real life fan of Maroon 5's work as a kid in the early 00's, you captured my feelings perfectly.

[@wisconsinmode]

My favorite part about Adams delivery of "Following" on Maps, is that it was the first thing I thought of when I got to the switchup ~4 minutes into Metallica's Fade to Black

[@jorgito93700]

...goddamn you're right and i hate that you are

[@maxlimit9129]

the three song stretch on jordi's deluxe with two posthumous rap features is so fucking cursed

[@evergreen1798]

Possibly haunted too

[@FinlandMusic]

Someone once told me that Adam Levine sounds like Squidward's clarinet if it had learned how to talk, and after watching this video I think they were right. Also a suggestion for a future DDD: Peter Murphy (you could also talk about Bauhaus in the same episode).

[@princesstarah2]

Todd In The Shadows once said that Maroon 5 is like an appliance that serves a purpose, like a dishwasher or a vacuum. Their purpose is to make music that fills out the pop charts.

[@ep12454]

I don’t care what anyone says Wake Up Call is one of their best songs to this day

[@crowkid5553]

Despite the downfall, they still have good songs here and there, and maybe one day they and hopefully they can do an album that goes back to their old roots

[@luke-rd8nt]

You're so fucking right about PJ Morton. Like holy shit "How Deep Is Your Love" is incredible.

[@swiftyjb0609]

What I had no idea pj Morton is in maroon 5, I love his solo stuff that’s wild

[@thebiggingerx]

my friends think i'm crazy with how obsessed i am with sunday morning so thank god someone else gets how good it is

[@JoshuaFagan]

I get what you're saying about Garth, but he was the first country star to really be an inescapable, world-conquering pop star. I'd probably argue that almost every successful male country artist since has followed his blueprint to some extent. His impact is still clearly felt that way.

[@michaeladkins6]

You cant mention Garth, without mentioning Chris Gaines.

[@cityboy2092]

He clearly does not go to karaoke bars often if he says he doesn't hear Garth's music because Friends in Low Places is one of the most excessively overdone songs in the entire catalog of music

[@heyjimbo5677]

also i think the reason adam doesnt do the rap verses himself is because their (former)mix of funk & rock and him rapping would have gotten them comparisons to that other band that mixes funk & rock and has a lead singer who also raps the red hot chili peppers

[@admadmda]

This DDD just opened my eyes to all the signs of Adam's thing with failing relationships/cheating on your partner, like really, we actually could've seen it coming

[@WhaleManMan]

Returning strong with the greatest band of all time

[@trashpacker4500]

It Won’t Be Soon Before Long deserves to be remembered the same way Songs About Jane is. Some of the most infectious hooks of the decade.

[@missoxymoronaddict]

I think the fondness of songs about Jane also stems from how ubiquitous it was at the time - you couldn’t help having it soundtrack some part of your life. Also I personally slayed This Love on og singstar, so maybe I’m biased!

[@YouCanCallMeXoe]

The problem I have with that comment from Adam is that it basically pushes the point that noone goes out of their way to look for music to listen to on their own. It's the unfortunate truth of music. If you aren't actively looking for music to listen to, you're just mindlessly consuming whatever the mainstream decides to force upon you. I'm not gonna sit there and say that everyone should HAVE to look for new music, and even then, the mainstream will occasionally promote good music, but they shouldn't be the ONLY way you find new music, because innovation IS out there in rock, but you can't expect the major labels to find every last scrap of originality, and you can't expect every band will want to live within the cesspool that is the major label industry. Say it with me, folks, "it's out there, YOU JUST HAVE TO LOOK FOR IT."

[@gaber1346]

Wow it really was that quick of a change. Those first three albums basically bookended my childhood their first (one of my older sister’s all time favorites that she played all the time) came out when I was in third grade, and their third durning my junior/senior year of high school. As an adolescent I considered myself a maroon 5 fanatic I was ecstatic to see them coming in concert on my birthday! And begged for those tickets. Originally I thought I was just outgrowing pop music but seeing it all laid out like this yeah those first albums were a distinct era for the band, and for me.

[@sarahhamilton8237]

ADAM LEVINE BEING PART OF COMMUNITY SEASON 4 MAKES SENSE

[@ArtemyMusha]

Adam Levine declaring himself to be in Missouri got a genuine laugh out of me

[@bee_zzus]

Me and my family have this inside joke about our dream job being "maroon 5's keyboardist" because you would get all the money and glory but none of the fame, you can play sold out world tours but no ome could pick you out of a line up with other 10 white dudes

[@thehopeofeden597]

In the last video Mic said we were going to hate the next band he chose for the DDD. I looked at this thumbnail and suddenly everything made sense….

[@AoifeOConnor1996]

Garth Brooks is massive in Ireland and still very relevant and played all the time. He regularly plays croke park for five nights in a row all fully sold out. People camp overnight outdoors (in IRELAND) for tickets. I have no idea why.

[@papijohn]

You mention Jamiroquai in the video, I think a DDD about him would be really cool. His background and how he got into music has always been interesting to me

[@TheGaragebandGuide]

“God is dead and Adam Levite’s auto tuned howl killed him” I love you man, never change.

[@thomasnelson5758]

I love that Moves Like Jagger got it's own section bc to me that was the turning point of Maroon 5, of where they crossed over and became the Maroon 5 that we know today. Hit machine, corporate pop rock Maroon 5, etc. Everything before and up to this point was good to solid pop rock, after this, they did exactly as you said, chased hits wildly regardless of quality (and sometimes it was quality -- Maps is great and so is One More Night -- Sugar and Girls Like You on the other hand are very much not) It's not often that you can trace a single song as the turning/pivotal moment in an artist's discography that defines their M.O. since then, but 'Moves Like Jagger' is 100% percent the turning point for Maroon 5.

[@jjwhalen2587]

My interest in M5 started and ended with Harder to Breathe, the first thing I ever heard by them. I remember hearing it playing in a Target electronics section and thought it was pretty good. Went home and listened to some of their other stuff and said never mind

[@severalcasesofstairs]

"i know this was named after a dead friend but that's no reason to make an album that's so lifeless" DAMN mike that was cold

[@oh_banana]

"I know it's named after a dead friend but that's no reason to make an album that's so lifeless." 💀

[@goodperson6405]

A Black Eyed Peas deep dive would be interesting.

[@WickeDaWitch]

Looks like it’s time for the strangest combination of early 2010s nostalgia and complete anger at myself for once thinking this was my favorite band I will ever experience.

[@projectz975]

im this topic went exactly how i expected it to go as soon as i saw the video title. the first three albums were pretty good and unique, then they made a gradual transition into making grey sludge until the end of time.

[@Charuchii]

I remember Todd in the Shadows briefly mentioning Sugar when talking about Mike Posner. I heard the song, liked it, put it on my playlist and it never left. I don't really enjoy anything else about Maroon 5 apart from the early stuff for nostalgia, but Sugar is just... I dunno. A big guilty pleasure I guess

[@alexisw8662]

maroon 5 was my fave band when i was in elementary school so this was a really fun throwback video for me, i’m glad you liked hands all over!! music has been a very important part of my life since i was a little kid, but i’ve always been pretty embarrassed to mention how maroon 5 was lowkey the first band i truly followed. it was great hearing your positive opinions of the first couple albums and it brought back some fun memories :)

[@TheSLATEcleaner]

I saw Maroon 5 live once because my mom and her friend had an extra ticket lying around and I didn't have anything better to do right after midterms. I came away genuinely impressed. With Owl City, who opened for them. Fireflies goes hard.

[@TopherIsATribble]

Maroon 5 will always hold a place in my heart. I have to say, Goodnight Goodnight is an underrated song in my opinion. Songs about Jane and It Won't Be Soon Before Long are albums I grew up on that hold a lot of personal feelings for me and I really enjoyed getting to watch this retrospective.