POP SONG REVIEW: "Girls Like You" by Maroon 5 ft. Cardi B

Ladies and gentlemen, your Super Bowl LIII halftime show performers! You wanted the best, you got the best, the hottest band in the world.... wait, seriously, these guys?
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[@baneoftechnology]

I feel like Maroon 5 is exclusively kept alive by the combined efforts of iHeart radio and middle school dance djs

[@ianrocco8453]

^This

[@alexgaeckle1540]

You're not wrong. 98.1 fm plays nothing but maroon 5 or imagine dragons. Recently they started advertising tik tok...

[@officialtrailers9075]

BaneOfTechnology You’re me, aren’t you.

[@davidmonypeny5734]

Don't discount "The Voice", either.

[@BitchinnShoes07]

And Gen X moms like mine.

[@ZanraiKid]

Calling Levine a virtual singer is an insult to Gorillaz and Vocaloid.

[@Paul-dc7ct]

ZanraiKid Vocaloid is already an insult to itself

[@gloryblackjack584]

@@Paul-dc7ct: ah fuck off, vocaloid is alright

[@EthalaRide]

I would die for a Gorillaz halftime show. could you imagine if Vocaloid was a guest performer, lol. Imagine an alternate universe where your family is watching football and all of a sudden there is this holographic anime girl digitally singing songs that are at decibels too high for your grandparents to hear. I bet Hatsune Miku could throw a harder punch than Levine, lol.

[@darko1295]

Vocaloids are dogshit already

[@helenanilsson5666]

Vocaloid is NOT an artist or group. It's a brand of voice synthesiser. It's the instrument with which artists make music.

[@responder75]

Adam Levine singing "Feelings" is like the tonal equivalent of seeing someone's knee bend the wrong way.

[@caramelle0191]

responder75 tru

[@Matthias-of-Redwall]

It sound like a bad parody of emo songs

[@BoilingHotTea]

r/rareinsults

[@positivitymaster4855]

responder75 It is also the song that Diamond Axe Studios Music uses in his intros.

[@realDonald-trump]

People think it's good

[@UltimateKyuubiFox]

The saddest thing about Adam Levine is that his voice would probably be pretty impressive if he actually... DID anything with it. In all of his songs, he sings like a person who can’t actually sing. No runs, just talky-falsetto in chopped sentences. If the guy just released a single where he actually holds a note and has interesting lyrics, maybe even work a ballad or something equivalent, he could probably do it great. He just... doesn’t. There’s just no passion, no energy, it’s empty white noise. He’s the poster child for automated pop music. It’s like all of his work has been created by an algorithm and then produced through a filter.

[@gamerguy425]

if you want to see him DO something with it look up... like Songs About Jane or anything from Kara's Flowers. There is more fucking integrity and creativity... and just QUALITY in "Soap Disco" than everything they've released since "moves like jagger" combined. it's fucking night and day, he's gone the entire spectrum from completely undeservedly ignored and underrated to monstrously overhyped and overrated shit.

[@joaquinherrera1403]

I think one of the few times Adam has actually used his voice for good has been in Kanye's "Heard Em Say". Just as a feature but that chorus was a standout for him

[@ReitheOffbeatOtaku]

@@gamerguy425 Can Maroon 5 really be called overrated in recent years? They don't get very positive reviews, as far as I'm aware.

[@gamerguy425]

@@ReitheOffbeatOtaku In terms of Fame/success they completely are, even if the critics rightfully aren't impressed. Like Todd said, "the fact that they're still surviving when the pipeline has slowed to a trickle is a complete systemic failure. "

[@ReitheOffbeatOtaku]

You're right; that's kind of what I assumed you meant by overhyped.

[@Rikku147]

Todd's ongoing hatred of Maroon 5 is, like, so comforting to me. No matter the year, no matter how music changes, that deserved hatred remains.

[@mikerivera373]

Just think back to the 2012 worst list, when Todd officially added Maroon 5 to the shitlist

[@diyaarora7126]

Watch them pull a Major Lazer right after this song.

[@GlitterPenPerspective]

I FEEL this.

[@WaffeHo]

It's like eating a big bowl of mac n cheese. Comfort food for the soul.

[@daisykaji]

I felt a little betrayed after the Chainsmokers fiasco, but I’m glad to see one thing will stay the same.

[@Vulture2264]

Maroon 5? All i see is Adam Levine and the men he holds hostage.

[@janeeyre1990]

Kondoru2264 Much better band name

[@lance2290]

We only call it that because the alternative (and more appropriate) name is too long. “The Adam Levine Experience Starring Adam Levine and the Adam Levine Band” won’t fit on a marquee.

[@user-tf6hu5up7k]

Lmfao why is it called maroon tho

[@ToastyMozart]

+Lance I'm partial to "Adam Levine and the Maroons" myself.

[@donovansingleton9096]

4 guys marooned on the island of ego that is Adam Levine

[@IceDragon289]

I love that Todd is still committed to the "Animals-mals" joke years later.

[@emmae2520]

I like the internet theory that Adam Leviene sold his soul in exchange to be successful with his music, only for the devil to play it so Maroon 5 will always be a hit but will never be anyone's favorite band

[@juliannaagoncillo6090]

Adam Levine: the Faust of pop music (alternate title: Faustian rockstar/idol)

[@xredjasperx247]

Emma Eisenberg why does this make so much sense, it also explains how their songs don’t even have a hint of personality anymore.

[@RenaldyCalixte]

So Adam Levine is Ghost Rider?

[@moyo6606]

I would pay to watch a Twilight Zone episode based on this comment.

[@SkellaBella1396]

I saw a post on tumblr (yeah yeah, I know) that theorized that Maroon 5 had actually made a deal with the devil to always remain just relevant enough and always have charting singles, but just never actually be anyone’s favorite. And y’know, in this musical climate, it’s starting to seem more plausible...

[@ianrocco8453]

Maroon 5 is the official background music of hell so makes sense.

[@vard000]

@kevin willems Oh shit, Tenacious D must have lost the horn.

[@immortaluglyfish2724]

They made a wish for fame on a monkey's paw.

[@shai2121]

kinda sounds like they were riffing on the plot point from Jennifer's Body where an up and coming alt band does a satanic ritual specifically to become as famous as maroon 5 lol

[@xrrgr]

@@shai2121 jeez, even the main singer kinda looks like Levine lmfaooo

[@Jygerthe2nd]

...Yeah, it DOES look pretty bad when Ellen can't even attempt to bop to your song. lol

[@AWSVids]

Also, anybody else find it ironic that the only "meaning" this song seems to convey is that Adam Levine needs a "girl" he can have a relationship with... but he puts a 60-year-old lesbian in the video.

[@ColonelGreen]

That's better than the part where the "girl" is Millie Bobby Brown, at least.

[@JamesOhGoodie]

Seriously! Ellen could bop to a dial tone, but not this dreck.

[@AWSVids]

Ha... I didn't even notice that Millie Bobby Brown was in it. Obviously, they didn't really think that whole "meaning" thing through, did they?

[@endorenna7106]

Wait wait wait, Millie Bobby Brown is in there?! Oh shit, that's... that's really bad. Just... really bad. I think Gal Gadot is WAY too good to be in a video for this awful song (just like Millie Bobby Brown), but at least she's, y'know... a grown woman...

[@TheLowBrassDude]

Childish Gambino could kill at the Superbowl Halftime show just by doing the Spanish 101 rap from Community.

[@IceDragon289]

My big problem with Levine is that he has no identity. He's tried to sell himself as both an overly sincere, sensitive heartthrob; AND a dangerous bad boy, and he fails at both of them.

[@T0xXx1k]

I saw him in a pro-active acne commercial before I heard or saw any of this stuff n I feel like that explained alot of what's happening cuz he had all his middle school &high school pics yikes 🧡🦇

[@wadespencer3623]

"Baby I'm barely alive" He admits it! Adam is some sort of magically reanimated corpse!

[@sanriodeppressionthermos8602]

#adamneedshelp

[@goat8146]

#Maroon5IsBoring

[@dualtahunter4043]

#adamlevineisarevenant

[@TheDukeofCheese12]

Here's another reason why "Nice For What" is better than "Girls Like You" Drake takes a backseat to the women in his video, while Adam Levine insists his egotistical face is the focus of half of the entire video.

[@DestinyKiller]

I was thinking that, too. Go girls! But, yeah, stand behind me the whole time

[@pinkwings8036]

Drake is also super generous and empathic. “You have to do all this BS for scraps of respect, that’s wack. Here’s a jam for you.” Where Adam is primarily complaining about his needs for a woman in his like.

[@shahsadsaadu5817]

@@pinkwings8036 which is kinda surprisingly positive of him. Because who knew drake of all people would make a better feminist song than the guy whose entire appeal is that ladies like him?

[@bcbitchkkv]

I hate to be that guy, but isn't the VIDEO virtually irrelevant to the song itself?

[@shahsadsaadu5817]

@@bcbitchkkv yeah,in a world where music video streaming services doesn't exist.

[@littleblueclovers]

“Girls like you” sounds like how a mug of warm tap water tastes.

[@Mattie-Ai]

Don't insult warm tap water like that. It's nice when sick.

[@monaro3305]

There are actually 2 people in maroon 5 that are needed for it to still be the same sound. Adam and the person who kicks him in the testicles to make his voice that high

[@myeyesarespiders]

I hate this song, it plays every two minutes on the radio and drills into my head like a parasite

[@HarunoMaxwell6115]

OhHoNo That is the true reason why I basically cause the events of Amon: The Apocalypse of Devilman.

[@caramelle0191]

I’m more interested in your profile pic than the song

[@Lrripper]

@@HarunoMaxwell6115 Are you LArPing ?

[@glennwelsh9784]

Is Maroon 5 even a band anymore? I'm pretty sure it's just Adam Levine howling over some synth wubs now. The rest of the band got fired and replaced by an anonymous EDM DJ like 8 years ago.

[@elenabeatricemartinelli8426]

maybe they are holograms.

[@kylehegedus5498]

Glenn Welsh I KNOW. RIGHT???!!!

[@elenabeatricemartinelli8426]

I hope they got paid for only appearing there at least. easy money!

[@idongesitusen5764]

Girls Like You is basically the honeyed oatmeal of music. You'll eat it to get full and it tastes okay but it's nothing to satisfy you. Without Cardi B to sweeten it, the song is nothing but passable.

[@caramelle0191]

So is Cardi the berries?

[@xredjasperx247]

Caramelle 01 no she’s the sugar from the sugar packets you get at McDonald’s for your coffee; because even honeyed oatmeal is too bland.

[@claypigeon7063]

Hey! I take offense to ðæt! I LIKE honeyed oatmeal.

[@tarikarifhodzic3334]

Honeyed oatmeal is the greatest breakfast food dont you dare compare it to maroon 5

[@technounionrepresentative4274]

@@xredjasperx247 oh sugar. Yeah, is that because sugar is disgusting on its own?

[@SektionEi8ht]

I’ve compared Adam Levine to trying to listen to a dog whistle before, but... that single... “I’VE GOT THESE FEEEEeeeeEEEEELIIIIIIiiiiii-“ *dog whistle reaction intensifies*

[@cosmicskringus3011]

I honestly read "Girls Like You" as if Maroon 5 were trying to convince me that girls like me.

[@PumpkinSwag]

Cosmic Skringus He could never convince me that girls like me. No one can...

[@brooklynhatch9705]

big mood

[@Brax1982]

If you are determined to find any kind of hidden genius around this song, it's the potential double entendre right there.

[@ToasterBrain51702]

Nobody will ever like you if you play No Man's Sky.

[@cosmicskringus3011]

Oof. *Goes back to playing No Man's Sky*

[@crosleybendix97]

It's crazy that Maroon 5 are STILL here.

[@riccardoplatone]

''Girls like You is the worst Maroon 5 single ever'' Memories: hold my nothing to offer

[@dizzy6947]

That song is a tad bit better, it have an actual meaning and actually feel sweet

[@danka1167]

That song does sample pachebels canon but the thing is... pachabels canon is one of the most beautiful songs of all time. Everyone else kinda sucks do

[@423adriana]

@@danka1167 Pachabel's Canon is also one of the most overplayed and overrated songs of all time. Canon in Don't.

[@twistedwizard9100]

Memories is better

[@twistedwizard9100]

Memories was 100x better.

[@inamib.9786]

It’s no wonder K-pop and South America are taking over when American artists are so dry

[@aandwdabest]

Inami B. J pop, European Electronic Music also rules. Don’t forget it was Europe that came up with disco

[@inamib.9786]

I completely agree with you. But I was mostly making a point about what’s getting popular in America right now. It’s not a J-pop band that got invited on Jimmy Fallon or stands as the most watched video on KZbin. If you look at my playlists, it’s mostly electronic and lots of Japanese music

[@jedithomas2013]

I think it's also important to bring up that one of the most successful metal bands of the last few years is Babymetal. A Japanese metal band that mixes in j-pop elements. This seems interesting to me because they spear more accessible to the k-pop crowd. Many of my friends are into k-pop and when I play a song like Starlight they can get behind it. While the American pop artist is declining so is the metal and rock artist.

[@HarunoMaxwell6115]

Inami B. For me, it's J-pop like everyone else here! Baby Tears for opening of Sky Girls the anime, Terra's songs for DDR, BeForU (disbanded), and Vocaloid!

[@oof-rr5nf]

Honestly? I am so EXCITED about something other than American music attaining international spotlight, that I find hard to care for there being less good music for them. For offense to the Americans, but the fact that "Everything USA!" has had global culture by the balls since forever has got old. Give me something new.

[@SergioMach7]

You know pop music is circling the drain when you see Baby Shark chart in the UK top 40. That still seems more like a song than this.

[@Crimson_Cheetah]

Paul Cunningham Wait, that’s a thing? I can’t decide if that’s terrible or amazing.

[@elliewilliams9331]

Paul Cunningham didn’t we have a Christmas number one about some kind of pie at some point

[@kembowhite1903]

Fun fact in the UK baby shark peaked at number 6....girls like you peaked at 7. Never been more proud to be British.

[@ryankiddle841]

@@elliewilliams9331 We built this city on sausage rolls...

[@mikerivera373]

And now it’s charting in the US top 40. At this rate, it might make the year end...

[@spritelady4669]

Nothing in this world makes me happier than Todd dragging Maroon 5 in the icey depths of bad music hell.

[@patricklauer4452]

Sprite Lady same

[@thema1998]

I feel the same way. 😂

[@tryanything5473]

Welcome to cocytus

[@ECL28E]

If the "Four-Chords of Doom" are the COmic Sans of music, then Pachabel's Canon is Times-New Roman

[@yanstein8464]

so... also overused but a bit more classy?

[@Flamestar320]

Pretty much.

[@MetalSandman999]

I think Maroon 5 may have actually done it. I think their Super Bowl performance may action be the nail in their coffin. Not because of the music - their performances were too boring and mediocre to cause them long-term damage. No, they managed to royally piss off millions of now-adult Spongebob Squarepants fans! Lol

[@jellyfishrock-hers7888]

Well Justin Timberlake and The Black Eyed Peas were relevant for the rest of the year still. And Maroon 5 is going down as the band of the decade. (Whether you like it or not). And The Balck Eyed Peas made a return recently.... And it's going great witbout Fergie. Back to their Hip-Hop roots. And J.T. just needs to realize Jessica Beil is holding him down. All he does now is talk about how hot she is. But compared to M5 it's minor.

[@MetalSandman999]

@@jellyfishrock-hers7888 true, but they didn't mess with Spongebob lol

[@Hola-tq4pg]

That's kind of sad because everyone is shitting on Travis for Sicko Mode, Damn i rather listening to Sicko Mode way more than Girls Like You

[@user-ln5yo4ir9v]

@@Hola-tq4pg Travis is a fucking god and he wasnt responsible for the superbowl scandal and he shouldnt be compared to fucking maroon 5

[@samt3412]

@@user-ln5yo4ir9v Travis made a somewhat interesting rap song, and was the only song I ever heard from him.

[@Natendowii]

At this point Maroon 5 may as well change their name to "The Adam Levine band," Because that's all they are at this point: Adam Levine with a backup band.

[@patricklauer4452]

Natendowii true

[@TheMadwomen]

“Adam Levine and the Maroons” I mean, they ARE all maroons

[@patricklauer4452]

donutmaster437 Lol 😂

[@mikerivera373]

That’s cute, you think there’s an actual band playing

[@person.w9780]

They used to be a band.

[@maxwoods6547]

That Cardi B verse is exactly like the Ludacris one in Baby, so out of place lmao

[@neckpeck2738]

and yet its the only thing anyone looks forward to when listening to the song because its actually energetic and not the same bland structure repeated over and over for once

[@M0b1us_118]

Max Woods Since you brought up Cardi, a few days ago it was announced that she will not be performing at the Super Bowl because of something to do with Colin Kapernick, I guess. If Maroon 5 are to flame out, it’s all up to Travis Scott now.

[@noahbullock6696]

My favorite cardi B song is nobody can touch my swaaaag

[@riokamichika1101]

And just like Baby, it worsens an already crappy song. Adding a rapper who sounds way too disinterested phoning it in, just to add some energy.

[@LegoManiac_101]

Max Woods true

[@austinfletchermusic]

It's crazy that on the decade-end chart this was #5. TOP FUCKING FIVE. It's left no fucking impact

[@sandequation2653]

I feel like the singles vs. albums transition is maybe tied to how we went from catching TV shows an episode at a time, to getting a whole season all at once on streaming sites. We want a whole package of new & exciting material to digest at our own pace.

[@ryandowney8743]

Having each of those women appear and disappear in the video just makes them look like Maroon 5 thinks they are interchangeable, replaceable. It seems more like an insult to them than any kind of compliment or empowerment.

[@1fareast14]

yep, nice to know I'm not the only one who thought that

[@markborishnikoff5485]

I watched this review two days. No lie, I forgot what the song was called today.

[@ToastyMozart]

Not really sure what else anyone could have been expecting from the Blurred Lines guys, TBH.

[@MetalSandman999]

Indeed. Making gestures to get your SJW on and show everyone that you're enlightened and not not like THOSE people of your given majority group (e.g. white, male, heterosexual etc.) pretty much always backfires. This is no exception.

[@TheAdrift]

Oh my god, I was thinking the EXACT same thing! "A girl like you--or maybe you! Or you! Could be any of you!"

[@fifit4149]

Todd better stay on KZbin for a long time to come, I love him.

[@Anijah2001]

Same

[@KyeGuard]

agreed

[@Czalty]

I used to have your exact avatar pic

[@vintagearisen]

Maroon 5 makes Nickelback sound edgy

[@ericpeterson8732]

Is it okay to like Nickelback yet? 'Cause I've been waiting for the hate to subside so I can enjoy them in the open. Coldplay still sucks, tho.

[@vintagearisen]

get out

[@Drforrester31]

@@ericpeterson8732 It'll never be okay to like Nickelback

[@americanliberal09]

LOL! XD

[@kristismith3662]

No Maroon 5 makes Nickelback sound like the Beatles

[@karmicobsession1636]

Wow you literally predicted Maroon 5's horrible half time show performance.

[@ffjreviews9029]

I’ll give it this, it wasn’t the Black Eyed Peas half time show

[@jirosomer1204]

So Toddsterdomas finally made a correct prediction

[@jessenathan9346]

He may have correctly predicted their horrible performance, but he also predicted that it would be the end of their career, which it wasn't.

[@sponn3715]

Maroon 5... The cockroaches of pop music. They'll never die.

[@phillinsogood]

Sponn so accurate lol

[@sanriodeppressionthermos8602]

Iheart radio pushing maroon 5 on us is the equivalent of scientists trying to get us to put roach milk in our cereal.

[@cheyennebarnes8594]

Sponn actually the real cockroaches was that stupid band “the wanted” yeah they were wanted....dead, and it happened within 2 years of them getting some spotlight time after they thought it was a good idea to bash 1D and Directioners came at them from every corner and ended their career.

[@taylorfrench6722]

In Lil Dicky's Earth, they're a group of vultures all voiced by Adam Levine.

[@SixofQueens]

It's such a shame. Their first album (Songs About Jane) actually showed some potential. I was playing some songs off of it a few weeks ago, and a younger coworker of mine came in, heard what was playing (I think it was Sunday Morning or The Sun), and asked "who is this?" "Maroon 5", I replied. He gave a sarcastic laugh and asked, "but seriously, who is this?" When I showed him that is was, indeed, Maroon 5, and explained that it was from their first album, he was absolutely stunned and almost shouted "THIS is Maroon 5?! What the hell happened to them?!" Anyone who hasn't heard some of the songs from their first album, I would say check them out. Yes, some are clear indications of the garbage that they would produce from then on out up until this very day, and the better ones actually make the shit generator that they became even more tragic, but there are some, in my opinion, pretty decent songs, and even one or two damn good ones, especially among those not released as singles at the time.

[@renatofillinich305]

SixofQueens The sun is a great song!

[@Cream147player]

Even the singles off the album - which I disliked at the time - seem like masterpieces in retrospect when you know where Maroon 5 were ultimately going to end up. I’m not going to say it’s a waste of potential - with Levine as lead vocalist I don’t think they were ever going to be brilliant. That being said they did not have to be what they are now, which is in my opinion, one of the worst and most annoying bands to ever make it big.

[@regirayquaza]

I really like Adam Levine's chorus on Heard Em Say. It's really nice with the beat.

[@naiknaik8812]

I don't mind spending everyday

[@ThatGuyfromBrazil]

Sunday Morning is unironically a favorite for me. She Will Be Loved too, mostly for nostalgia.

[@luckystriker842]

There are certain songs by Maroon 5 that I actually enjoy outside Songs About Jane, like "Wake Up Call", "Makes Me Wonder", and even some of the more recent stuff like "Sugar" and "Moves Like Jagger". This song contains none of the stuff I like about those songs. Hell, I listened to a mashup of "Girls Like You" and a song from Cardcaptor Sakura that sounded more like a Maroon 5 song than the actual song.

[@caramelle0191]

Link?

[@luckystriker842]

@@caramelle0191 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nomypZyfhsmempY&ab_channel=Triple-Q

[@Saintnick90]

Adam Levine is the Thanos of music. He makes the talent of those he collaborates with disintegrate.

[@anonymousinkproductions8624]

Plus he is inevitable Inevitably on the charts with a crappy song

[@sammygecko_]

That’s a disservice to thanos. He was sO much more interesting

[@korokonas]

Every time I hear a new Maroon 5 song, I remember Songs About Jane and get really sad...

[@lucyw4195]

That was the first album I bought with my own money...I was ten. How times have changed :(

[@Daniel33487]

Kona Koro The Chicago comparison is pretty apt. How the hell does a talented group of musicians making not-outstanding-but-really-good-nonetheless-music throw all that out the window so they can start making shallow soft rock that I'm pretty sure even they don't listen to. It's illogical.

[@sonicjrjr14]

@@Daniel33487 🤑

[@mastermarkus5307]

Yeah. I was never personally a fan of Maroon 5's music, but nowadays I find myself thinking "Man, remember those days when Maroon 5 was completely tolerable and not the worst shit in pop music?"

[@gabe_s_videos]

I still see them perform "Harder To Breathe" these days and they still sound really good as a band! They're not at all bad performers or songwriters. But I really don't feel like they've been doing their best lately.

[@irdeaner]

There are so many problems with this song and video that no one has the time or patience to actually go through all of them. My biggest issue is with the video. It's almost as if they said, "We made a feminist video with all these women, even though the song is about a rocky, at best, relationship and we refer to grown women as 'girls'. Look, we even have a lesbian! We are so, progressive".

[@victoriauwandu3858]

So right

[@HarunoMaxwell6115]

irdeaner All of it's lyrics didn't make me think about it supporting women. That rap with the lyrics saying that they go through hard times is real and makes me think of that, and do a variety of things! Example: Showing one with a child. Here? It's just them doing generic dancing. How about Adam and the others helping women that reflect their real lives if that happened. See, viewers do what the creators don't. And about the creators, they will try to improve, or let it trip.

[@AngelineProductions]

Minimal effort, truly. It’s “comfortable,” corporate feminism that Levine is only shilling to look more appealing to his female fan base. It’s selfish and gross.

[@ponygon777]

At least Chicago had the great Terry Kath, who Jimi Hendrix called "A better guitar player than him", an influential horn section, led by James Pankow and Keyboardist and co-lead vocalist Robert Lamn. I don't think the other guys in "Maroon 5" have names.

[@kieranstark7213]

Asshole Levine: *YOU FUCKING DARE SAY ANYONE IS FUCKING BETTER THAN ME, PRICK?! intensifies to death*

[@ethancole4359]

Yeah, I love Chicago's 70's stuff. They are a very talented group imo. Terry Kath is an extremely talented guitar player. As much as I love Peter Cetera I love Robert Lamm's voice especially in the song "Beginnings" and love the horns. Their 80's songs were a decline imo but at least they tried. "You're The Inspiration" is a good song but I do hate "Look Away" by them and most of Diane Warren cheesy ballads.

[@dw89music73]

Also, Adam Levine has been regarded as a sex symbol. Peter Cetera never has.

[@dw89music73]

@@ethancole4359 And Diane Warren was the one who wrote Aerosmith's biggest hit "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing".

[@ethancole4359]

@@dw89music73 I'll give her that. The only song that she written that I do like. I don't dislike her as a person she seems nice but her songwriting in most of her songs imo are boring.

[@mikishapira4948]

9:25 “He couldn’t pass a captcha” I feel personally attacked.

[@ScowlieMeerkat]

"He couldn't pass a captcha". Very nicely put.

[@BlueKunai]

The last few years of depression pop, trap beats, weak drops and mumble rap are actually making me miss the early 2010s when pretty much everything on the radio was a generic club banger. At least most of those were energetic and upbeat. Hell, I miss Maroon 5 pre-Overexposed when they still sounded like an actual band.

[@markborishnikoff5485]

They're mad because Trump won.

[@Fuziontony123]

BlueKunai I mean pretty much everything recycles

[@kirbyboycoolness6734]

Agreed, especially since I thought the early 2010s were the best years for music.

[@jayromeo940]

Imagine actually having this opinion

[@bartholen]

Good God, no! Pitbull, Black Eyed Peas, obnoxious party girl Kesha, Miley Cyrus at her dumbest, 3OH3!, LMFAO, the list goes on. I'll drink a bathtub of sulfuric acid before going back!

[@Kirbita22]

The thing about maroon 5 is that i actually really liked most of the stuff by them Todd kept bashing a while ago. I liked Sugar, I liked Payphone, I liked Animals, mals, and I liked Feelings! But like....these songs lately feel just so uninspired and bland. And they're worse because they have the guy's voice in them. Girls Like You wouldn't make me so sad if it was sung by some guy I didn't recognize. But instead it's a voice I grew up associating with fun, upbeat songs. And now he's just...here, making garbage. Congratulations Todd, you've converted me to the Maroon 5 Hate Camp.

[@rensje]

you- you like feelings?!

[@play-s-_______-osu]

I'VE GOT THESE FEEEEEEeeeeeeEeeLINGS

[@Kirbita22]

@@rensje yeah man i dont know what to tell you. i dont like it enough to have it on my phone and consciously decide to listen to it (though i do have sugar and animals mals). it may just be because all my life, maroon 5 was the one band just bland yet fun enough that my entire family (minus grandparents) likes most of their hits and will sing them at karaoke. honestly maybe i just have garbage taste in music when it comes to stuff that gets put on the radio, cause i also legit love every imagine dragons hit except thunder lol

[@anonymousinkproductions8624]

I thought I was the only one who liked those songs. But yea, they SUCK now

[@liammcguinness1975]

I mean I like payphone and animals out of nostalgia but I don't hate maroon 5 now because they were a band I actively liked making shitty music because even when I like them they were still just kinda there

[@PsychicGirl]

Maroon 5 has become the new Nickelback. Everyone hates them now, but you remember liking them at some point and you dont understand why they are still getting hits.

[@Drforrester31]

Much like with Nickelback, I can count myself among the few who knew they were utter tripe from the start

[@EmperorTigerstar]

As much as I hate this song, at least it ended Drake's 29 week streak at number 1 for good...

[@markborishnikoff5485]

I don't even pay attention anymore. I just hear current stuff in friends cars and parties.

[@BonafideSupastar]

Shame the single that ended that streak ended up being such a dearth of a song.

[@roddorfj]

I was miserable seeing Drake at the top week after week this year, but I'd take him being #1 until 2019 over this being #1.

[@CableB_]

No one should hear the same pop song on the radio for 29 consecutive weeks

[@CharonsNightmare]

last month alone 6 records were realeased that absolutly murder, why would i listen to pop again? XD (aborted, clutch, vinnie paz, allaxulelu, conan and revocation)

[@justcallmecaligula]

is it just me or does cardi b sound terribly out of place on this track?

[@ncisfan1002]

@@mariokarter13 Oh no it is I bought the album long before this version came out. It's definitely something they thought about doing _after_ the album's release

[@clickhere2d1e]

She _does._ I think she was added last minute because when it was released Cardi B was the biggest thing in music. Everyone tried to get her in for a feature verse because everyone wanted a piece of the coin Cardi's name brought in.

[@Michael-ep7fp]

Yeah it really is

[@thema1998]

It's not just you. Cardi B sounded like she was shoehorned into the song.

[@queenash96]

Yeah...she sound way more natural in finesse. Then again it IS Bruno Mars...he knows what he's doing.

[@enzmondo]

I’m here after the halftime show and I’m happy to report that this might be Adam Levine’s career’s final resting place. The super bowl has finally killed Maroon 5’s run in this world.

[@TSFboi]

They're still in the top 10. smh

[@progunjack5556]

Meanwhile 2021: a single from their newest album reach the top 20 😔

[@fermintenava5911]

... and Todd put them on his 2021 Worst List yet again.

[@gunnerdohrenwend227]

I don’t think I’ve ever had a conversation with anybody who actually likes maroon 5

[@blakesilvermark1]

I like them,,,

[@ericpeterson8732]

@@blakesilvermark1 yeah, but he's not talking to you....😁

[@lucky-mn3gm]

I liked their older music (basically anything before v)

[@blakesilvermark1]

@@lucky-mn3gm???

[@BarkertheScrunkly]

One kid in my Language Arts class during my senior year said that his favorite band of all time was Maroon 5. That was about five years ago, when Maroon 5 had already ceased resembling an actual band.

[@wstine79]

Maroon 5 is to Todd like Pureflix is to Cinema Snob.

[@brainflash1]

And Lady Gaga is to Todd what Jake is to Snob.

[@thema1998]

@duckiedale80 Dinesh?

[@funcoolfunfun]

I don't get that one.

[@Seth9809]

Who?

[@cartmann94]

Dinesh D’Souza. Some godawful movie director.

[@Nakia11798]

Maroon 5 is perfect representation of what’s happening to pop music. They were decent, the they became meh, then bad, then really boring.

[@jellyfishrock-hers7888]

Decent? Ahem the 1980's? Michael Jackson Madonna Prince Bon Jovi George Michael Cyndi Lauper Whitney Houston Rick Astley The Police Europe Bruce Springsteen etc.... And the mid 1990s were okay too with Bon Jovi, Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, Shania Twain, Celine Dion, Alanis Morrisette, Janet Jackson, Will Smith etc, (before the late 90's boy/girl band craze).

[@alanmooreisrasputinreincar8106]

@@jellyfishrock-hers7888 modern pop music*

[@joshbouman1654]

@@jellyfishrock-hers7888 What a strange selection of music to defend the 90's Michael Jackson was pretty much modern day Maroon 5 after 1990 lol

[@kembowhite1903]

@@joshbouman1654 blasphemy

[@catmeowi1030]

Same with EDM. Like marshmello. His music was actually pretty good a while ago but once he started teaming up with pop stars and stuff his music got SUPER BORING. I’m so glad I listen to Thefatrat instead!

[@squidy7771]

Surprisingly enough this is his opinion. Don't get your animals mals in a twist.

[@koala201211]

Ihe

[@beanson2323]

Woomy

[@irinakermong1217]

Usher and Childish Gambino doing the Super Bowl halftime show together would have been EPIC.

[@hematologyy]

And Chris brown

[@floydharper1216]

Yuck

[@kirstenirwin9084]

Oh God. This song. It's so boring. And why does no one get passionate or excited about being in love anymore? The one emotion that should evoke those feelings? Been married for three years and I'm still falling for my husband.

[@MsRabblerouser]

Aaaaw

[@BHanif1996]

That's real cute but I mean no one cares about it. The emotion I meant. Not you're marriage. That's great

[@oof-rr5nf]

This comment is adorable. Good for you!

[@oof-rr5nf]

Honestly. I for one am ready to move past love being all music is about. I know it is easy and catchy and universal. But are we really this boring as a species that we can't come up shit other than "Be Mine", "Why Aren't You Mine" and "Why'd You Leave Me You Asshole". I'm done! I'm done. Or, atleast, if it is still gonna be about love (*dissatisfied grumbling*) atleast be creative about it, ffs.

[@ariannadravis3934]

Aw, precious. Happy to hear it's been that great. ^^

[@wyattcorbin1629]

Adam Levine’s voice sounds like he drank the stuff that the Joker fell in.

[@emilyf1053]

Lmaoooo

[@loganmansiongames]

A Tank of Chemicals/Acid? I guess so.

[@enzmondo]

Back again from the year of our Lorde 2023 and... Maroon 5 had only peaked no. 8 on the Bilbboard 200 and hadn't charted since their last single in 2021, which peaked at no. 13 (mostly attributed to Megan Thee Stallion's featured role). Their last no. 1 hit was Girls Like You from 2018 (the very song review you're watching).

[@hindumuninc]

Todd should watch what he asks for. Coming in 2020 the return of SouljaBoy and Sorrento and their collab hit "Watch me Make a comeback" that will be played over and over again until your ears bleed.

[@cdvideodump]

I'm from 2021... That single would've been preferable to the real 2020

[@francisbonnefoy6719]

ah, my main source of knowledge for modern music

[@patricklauer4452]

Francis Bonnefoy same

[@LynetteTheMadScientist]

Frog!

[@iam9991000]

Go to Spectrum Pulse for more up-to-date pop music news.

[@TheProfessor529]

Yeah, this and Postmodern Jukebox for me.

[@patricklauer4452]

VLRgospel09 I sometimes watch his BBs

[@aacsmiles]

Every song on the radio right now sounds like its 2 am and you're leaving the bar after a so-so night. You just want to go home and go to sleep, but your friends are debating finding one more stop while you're silently praying everyone decides to just call it a night. Also, the uber driver's playing a song you don't like, but you're too drained to ask them to change the station.

[@AmaranthOriginal]

"Girls Like You" is that song I used to hear at 3 AM when I was driving home from Boston or thereabouts, desperately looking for something to keep me awake. What I'm saying is, Adam Levine has probably killed people.

[@aacsmiles]

Amaranth In terms of pop music, 2018 is the year of music for people who are exhausted and would rather be sleeping.

[@Fickji]

Not sure what to call it (irony? coincidence?) but there's literally a verse in Girls Like You that states the following: Maybe it's 6:45 Maybe I'm barely alive Maybe you've taken my shit for the last time, yeah Maybe I know that I'm drunk Maybe I know you're the one Maybe I'm thinking it's better if you drive So I think you're pretty accurate on the description of the bar leaving theme.

[@chuckbatman5]

It follows the trend of modern music just being shit for people to listen to when they're high. Modern Post Malone style hip hop is the same way, mellow and mumbly and easy to digest. It's why all these modern pop songs are so slow and droning, they're aiming at that same audience. But the gimmick works a lot better for hip hop than it does for pop

[@aacsmiles]

Coolman Hahn I don’t smoke pot, so I guess that explains why I don’t like most of the music.

[@martijnstuart95]

Hopefully this truly was Maroon 5's last hit. Their Super Bowl performance seems to have really pissed people off and now Levine has quit as judge on the Voice. Maybe it's too early to hang out the flag, but I think it is finally over...

[@hematologyy]

Memories hold my beer.

[@progunjack5556]

"iN My bED nA NA Na"......

[@gaiusoctavius6107]

I want to die

[@ScarletSho]

I feel like Todd's nightmare song would be a WGWAG song done in 4 Chords of Pop by a guy with a screeching falsetto voice with no personality.

[@TheLowBrassDude]

He already covered that back in 2010, it Hey Soul Sister by Train.

[@dukeofcurls3183]

Someone You Loved

[@RenaldyCalixte]

Who features Chris Brown on the song with Adam Levine. 😂😂😂😂

[@Bass_Goat53]

@@dukeofcurls3183 to be fair, Lewis Capaldi's voice doesnt sound like a falsetto

[@TheLedan]

@@RenaldyCalixte he put International Love as a honorable mention on a Best list. That's a song by Pitbull feat. Chris Brown. Yup, you heard that right.

[@vocalcalibration8033]

You see the only thing that upsets me about the decline of singles is how it affects Todd's content. He's got one hit wonderland and trainwreckords, sure, but my favorite videos by him have always been the pop song reviews.

[@blablablair1]

VocalCalibration agreed. 2009 was a great year of pop music with a lot of content for Todd’s early vids. The pop song reviews feel much sadder since 2016, and so has pop music 😢

[@crazyluigi6664]

*2013

[@ManaAdvent]

He should do more Top 10 Worst Hits of (*Insert Year) lists

[@Hieronymus-Pseudonymous]

I think he stopped doing those because they were a ton of effort and not that much fun for him.

[@critica77y77]

ManaAdvent if you want Top 10 Worst Hits of (*Insert Year) lists, I'd recommend checking out Diamond Axe Studios Music.

[@the-NightStar]

No lie, I actually heard this song play on a public radio at a store a few days ago, and I suddenly felt really sad and wanted to cry. Was it because the song was beautiful, or emotional, or really spoke to me in some kind of deep or meaningful way? Not on your life. It was because something suddenly clicked in my mind..... I had sort of a subconscious epiphany that this is what music is now. This depressing, bland, sterilized load of complete and utter nothing that was coming out of the speakers and wafting through the air in a public place where people go to buy things. .........and I was participating in it just by being there and hearing it. There I was, in the middle of the store, and no joke... this song, before I even knew what I was feeling, triggered that "What is my life??" part of my brain and I was suddenly having to hold back tears. It wasn't just a reminder that this is a very soulless, depressing time in the country right now, this is just a very soulless, depressing recent culture, and I suddenly had this mini-revelation, smack dab in the middle of a Best Buy, hearing "Girls Like You" by Maroon 5 playing on the radio while looking at the same "New Releases" as last month in the Blu-Ray section, that we've reached the point where the "human music" from Rick and Morty is real, with no irony or satire in the situation to be found.

[@bartholen]

Synthwave'll fix you up. get some Perturbator or Carpenter Brut in your life. Now that's music with balls!

[@ericpeterson8732]

Human Music, LOL

[@oof-rr5nf]

@@mickyw377 I concur with Micky. If what's popular has you dissatisfied, you just need new kinds of music! Art isn't disappointing. Hyper capitalist and consumer culture impacting art is what is disappointing.

[@doubleh333lix]

any vaporwave is neat, and bands like Glass Animals and Superorganism are active. Grandson is screaming. Beck is still pumping out neat stuff. There’s good things happening, still. Keep hope.

[@PirateGirl64]

I can't believe I used to like maroon 5, this song is the musical equivalent of plain oatmeal

[@rileylove37]

Good comparison.

[@claypigeon7063]

Hey! I LIKE plain oatmeal!

[@EazyB90]

Oh my god guys, I think Toddstradamus just might have gotten a prediction right. The halftime show very well may have been the end of Maroon 5.

[@mazajee]

Hopefully.

[@leoprince691]

Didn't happen, they're still around.

[@ToastyMozart]

I feel like calling Adam Levine a virtual singer at this point in his career is vaguely insulting to _actual virtual singers._ They might just be a syllable library strapped to a really fancy MIDI program, but a vocaloid can at least put some sense of artificial emotion into belting out a hook. The whole objective there is to *not* sound like a lifeless machine.

[@ZanraiKid]

I will ride and die to the end of time with tracks like “World is Mine”, “Melt”, “Just Be Friends”, “The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku”, “Last Night, Good Night”, “Senbonzakura”, and all the weird niche songs making references to folklore and obscure time periods no one discusses in textbooks. You would think by now Hatsune Miku would have a Top 40 hit with Pharrell or Lady Gaga or somebody.

[@ToastyMozart]

+ZanraiKid Maybe get Tupac to do the obligatory rap sequence insert. I'd say the foreign language aspect might be preventing them from catching on in the States, but it's not like English pop song lyrics are particularly comprehensible anyways. Between odd mixing and car speakers' frequency response.

[@meganrobinson1110]

ZanraiKid “Just Be Friends” is honestly such a technological marvel, you can hear the tragedy and heartbreak in that chorus and she’s not even real. Other vocaloid songs to ride and die to (for me) are “Butterfly On Your Right Shoulder,” “The Snow White Princess Is...,” and anything by Mitchie M

[@Khenfu_Cake]

@@ordinarychef Lady Gaga also helped promote Babymetal in the US/the West. Either you are right about it being some producer ploy to market Japanese acts outside Japan or she genuinely enjoys the weird and/or quirky music from there. It might even be both.

[@Fuziontony123]

ToastyMozart Hatsune Miku is offended lol

[@inglomi]

The analogy of Cardi's verse to the Maroon 5 song vs. a cheerleading squad for a shitty team example at 13:40 was gold.

[@GoTE_DocShock]

wickedfedora I liked the "sprig of parsley on a pile of vomit"

[@floydharper1216]

Giving cardi too much credit

[@TheCapedWriter]

Sir, Peter Cetera is an artist. Adam Levine is just some guy with a microphone.

[@jessenathan9346]

Dude, have you ever seen him hate on Chicago?

[@brigs9058]

Bahaha you totally predicted the maroon 5 Superbowl shitshow

[@borednerd2100]

Let's that would be the end to their career because i will smack myself if i ever hear Adam Levine's voice on rhe radio again.. Why can't we have Adam Lambert instead??

[@duncansinclair2996]

Wasn’t hard to predict lol

[@TheSkully343]

The only thing that could possibly save the music industry now is the living legend that is Gudda Gudda #GroceryBag

[@crazyluigi6664]

In the bag?

[@ToasterBrain51702]

@@crazyluigi6664 In a bag?

[@Briefly16]

Solidus-Skully why did I laugh so hard 😂😂 I forgot all about Gudda Gudda

[@GlorianaLovejoy]

I'm 40, and I can easily see douchebags jumping all over a song like this in order to appear "sensitive" and such. Stealth douches? I don't know what they're called these days. The stealth douches of the 70s used a lot of (no joke) James Taylor, Dan Fogelberg, and Carole King in order to appear sensitive & sweet to my mom. The stealth douches of "my day" were all about (again, no joke) Lisa Loeb, Mariah Carey, and Boyz II Men's smooth R&B stuff. I think I remember one of 'em toting around some slow stuff by Color Me Badd. *shudder* "Douche Music" is a highly subjective term I think, haha.

[@whatamiwatching2183]

They're called "nice guys"

[@JamesOhGoodie]

Laurie Ann Don’t forget John Mayer, the patron saint of stealth douches.

[@metademetra]

Laurie Ann Which is funny, because in “my day” (being 2004; I’m 22) Maroon 5 easily could fall under that...and I think it worked way better. There was one song from them that I thought was a nice song about cheering up a girl that only last WEEK did I realize it was about him manipulating a woman who’s barely an adult and emotionally unstable to have sex with him... This is nothing. If a man sings this to me I’m gonna think he’s the most uninteresting human on the planet.

[@GlorianaLovejoy]

@@metademetra - Yeah, there are so many Maroon 5 songs with that shady, manipulative subtext. Mayer & Levine both had/have a knack for writing songs that initially sound like they're just forlorn poets trying to find love in this painful old world. Then, after listening a few times, the hairs on the back of my neck stand up & I need a friggin' decontamination shower when I realize how manipulative & skeevy the lyrics actually are. Reminds me of "More Than Words" by Extreme in the 90s. That song is such guilt-trip horse shit, but I didn't realize for years. That was one of those go-to songs the d-bags would sing to potential conquests at bowling alley lounge karaoke. Ugh. I still think Nuno Bettencourt is a great guitarist, but that song can suck itself.

[@bigbrotherlop87]

He's now married to a Victoria secret model and is too busy making babies to care about music. I'm not blaming him. If I had to decide how to divide my time between banging Behati Princeloo nad putting time into writing a pop song I would release a 4 second catchy line and loop it for 3 minutes and go back to my priorities...

[@kylehegedus5498]

At least when Chicago sold out, they actually still sounded like a BAND!!!!

[@dw89music73]

Not to mention that they replaced Peter Cetera halfway through the 1980s.

[@grimkaizer8417]

Pretty late, Chicago didnt exactly sellout in a traditional sense. They just let Peter Cetera write music. Their first album (their best album) had zero no songs written by Cetera, and their second album had one Cetera song and it was bad and a super easy listening song. Robert Lamm wrote most of Chicago's best songs but eventually ran out of ideas. Terry Kath (performer of Hendrix's favorite guitar solo) was just happy to support the band in anyway. When Cetera's song started being hits the label kept pushing for him to be the main frontman (a position he formally shared with Kath and Lamm) and well, the rest is history. Kath's death cemented Chicago's direction.

[@kylehegedus5498]

R.I.P. Terry Kath

[@JoshuaFagan]

Maroon 5's dominance and the demise of pop music makes me miss Taylor Swift. Not reputation-era Taylor Swift, but the real Taylor Swift we got until 2015. Even when she was bad, you could tell she was at least trying. She made music that connected with people. But who does pop music in 2018 genuinely connect with? No one.

[@lucyw4195]

I actually think Reputation had some great deep cuts that reminded me of old Taylor. Delicate, Getaway Car and New Year's Day all have the wistful, melancholy vibe I liked from songs off Speak Now. If only we had gotten more of those songs promoted as singles, instead of Look What You Made Me Do and Ready For It, two of the most soulless songs of Taylor Swift's career.

[@jakerboss3534]

Lucy W Well, Delicate was released as a single and actually charted pretty high, so there you go.

[@ericpeterson8732]

I miss old Taylor Swift, too. But she's dead! Didn't you hear what we made her do? Taylor used to have a line or two in each of her songs that made me really think she was a great songwriter. Now I can't even listen to the hook, much less the verses.

[@isabelavasco1992]

Oh boy reading this comment in 2023 is so fun

[@lrose1310]

Many have come and gone. Many have risen and fallen from his interest. However, no matter the year, no matter the song, Todd will always deeply and strongly hate Maroon 5. Honestly, that's the one constant in my life.

[@wyattcorbin1629]

Chris Brown.

[@lrose1310]

haha, yea that was a good era, but he's already said he can't really bring himself to hate Chis Brown the way he used to.

[@lilithwy]

You're the first music critic I've heard of that hates Chicago.

[@princegoatcheese9379]

Soulja Boy up in here, oh watch me crank it, watch me roll watch me crank that Superbowl then blow up the Half-time show now watch me YOUUUUUUUUUUU!

[@serenityjoy1872]

I hate 'Wait'... I actually feel deep sadness when I recall how much I enjoyed 'Songs About Jane' & I realize they'll never make music like that again.

[@sentientblender]

Regardless of what Maroon 5 went on to make, Songs About Jane was a hotbed of absolute bops. Pop music needs a little more Songs About Jane in it right about now.

[@LaurenOwlet]

Serenity Joy *they’ll never make music again

[@andysorensen1737]

Serenity Joy I just looked up “Songs About Jane”. There were some awesome jams. If they stuck with that I’d enjoy them instead of that constant eye roll I do.

[@KaijaSchmauss]

Same. Songs About Jane was a good album, as was a lot of their stuff in the early to mid-2000's. I still listen to Makes Me Wonder sometimes, just 'cause the beat is so infectiously funky. But it's depressing to see them go from that to this boring dreck.

[@andysorensen1737]

Kaija Schmauss Makes Me Wonder is another good one...it’s really sad to see the decent of this group.

[@stephaniewozny3852]

So, Todd, you acknowledge that the Superbowl performance killed the Black-Eye Peas' career? I'm gonna be on the lookout for their "Trainwreckords" episode!

[@blablablair1]

Stephanie Wozny I’m sincerely hoping the theory holds true for Maroon 5’s performance😂

[@icanusernamebetterthanyou3853]

It's been eight years. The Black-Eyed Peas ended halfway through Obama's first term. The Black-Eyed Peas ended while the 5th generation of IPhone was still a concept. The Black-Eyed Peas ended before LMFAO released their debut album 'Sorry for Party Rocking'. The Black-Eyed Peas ended the year Conan O'Brien left the Today Show. The Black-Eyed Peas ended before House M.D. did. But thanks to 'I gotta feelin' being played in every supermarket, pet store or school function, it still feels like yesterday.

[@camzoman]

They won't fit the trainwreckords format because it wasn't an album that killed them, they just sort of faded out.

[@JamesOhGoodie]

dayzgone No? What have they done since?

[@stephaniewozny3852]

@@camzoman , I've seen people make the argument that it was in fact their album "The Beginning", along with the Superbowl performance, that killed their careers. So, yes, it would qualify for Trainwreckords. The Superbowl performance just adds another layer.

[@andysee6996]

I think every single black artist the NFL approached for the Super Bowl LIII halftime show turned down the spot because they would be giving a tacit approval to the NFL's ruling that kneeling for the national anthem is unpatriotic.

[@kristofgriffin384]

At least Nickelback has songs with actual meaning behind them. "Gotta be Somebody" says that even though you feel alone at the moment, there's somebody out there who's like you and will love you. "If Everyone Cared" says that we all swallowed our pride and cared for one another, the world would be a better place. "Feed the Machine" talks about how we're controlled by people in power and that we're manipulated by swallowing their lies. "Edge of Revolution" says that we should stand up and rebel against a government or force that's trying to control us. "When we Stand Together" says that we can build a better world if we work together. And even the songs that aren't very meaningful can still rock hard. I think Nickelback gets WAY TOO much hate! Especially since there exist hundreds of other bands and musicians that are far worse than they are. Maroon 5 being one of them.

[@thehopeofeden597]

I don't want to sound like that guy but I miss music from the old days. And by the old days I mean early 2000s-2010s. Like when Todd was just starting up, music was obnoxious but at least it was uniquely obnoxious and happy fun party stuff. I'm gonna say it.... I miss Pitbull, you guys.

[@ToastyMozart]

The good ol' days when there was a varied and semi-unique stable of villains, back before the writers just gave the fuck up and Simpson'd the whole genre.

[@thema1998]

@@adeptdamage3669 There were some good songs from that time.

[@vocalcalibration8033]

If nothing else I worried less about Todd's career.

[@mikerivera373]

AdeptDamage but they sucked in an interesting way. And what’s more, there was a consistent stream of them. It didn’t feel like a barren wasteland.

[@mafeuk]

I dreaded the day people start missing Pitbull or LMFAO.

[@acecola8295]

I loved Maroon 5's first two albums despite them being a little whiny. I enjoyed them when they were an actual funk rock band. Now they're moldy cheese the merchant's too lazy to throw away

[@courtneyjohnsonhaber4591]

Songs about Jane is legit

[@andrewforsyth2351]

Hands all over was actually a decent album, it was a pop sellout, but there were some good songs on there, unlike red pill blues

[@bronzewolf6464]

Like an alternate universe Jamiroquai

[@kylehegedus5498]

Ace Cola Yeah I used to play “Harder To Breathe” on my old snare drum. Now, they’re barely even a “band!!!”

[@SmoothCriminal12]

I actually feel the same way. There have been very few good songs since the 2nd album. The acoustic version of Misery was good, same with The Man who never lied, Lucky Strike and Maps.

[@Flamestar320]

I'd gladly take Peter Cetera over Adam Levine. At least Cetera didn't sound like a robot and could hit his high notes comfortably. (Granted, I do have a soft spot for Chicago, particularly their jazz years. So it's most-likely bias on my end.)

[@Flamestar320]

And he was one heck of a bassist in Chicago's early years. Just check out "Introduction" from their first album when they were named _Chicago Transit Authority._ The bass playing on the whole album is very good, but the first track in particular is great stuff.

[@ethancole4359]

Agreed. Peter Cetera even at his worst has more personality than this robot. And I love Chicago and I don't care to admit it. To compare Chicago with Maroon 5 is like comparing apples to oranges. Chicago's early work is very creative. Even some of their 80's songs are good ngl. Maroon 5 had one alright album "Songs About Jane" But "Chicago Transit Authority" is a great album. If it was Maroon 5 compared with the Eagles before Joe Walsh then were talking.

[@supernebula101]

It sounds like Cardi B drugged Maroon 5 to steal their cash-- Oh, wait..

[@dibbadyda1728]

Lol

[@BabysitterSky]

Ugh...this song.....such a formulaic piece of crap. Even with a stupid not fitting rap verse in the middle!!

[@NimhLabs]

There is a point where you follow the formula to the letter enough, that you've failed to follow the formula. That is what this song is. It broke the formula by following it too well.

[@JeepusChrystler]

Fitting that you'd start October off with a song that's absolutely terrifying.

[@rolandoroyster8536]

I used to be a maroon 5 apologist up until a few years ago. They used to make energetic fun pop but now? I dont even know anymore. They just suck now

[@magicrainbowkitties1023]

Honestly Moves Like Jagger was all kinds of fun. But now it's all slow and clunky with no fun at all.

[@sleepingkittystar9067]

That guitar is literally like stock music material

[@tristanparedes]

Love your content!!

[@Dany_lop]

Yaass!!! Awesome to know you watch TiTS haha

[@stephaniethomas7019]

HELL YA BOI

[@Chelaxim]

UWU

[@orionm-s7377]

Tristannnnnnnnnnnnn

[@BurningHellz]

Love YOUR content

[@eli88958]

At least I got to look at Gal Gadot for a while

[@thomaskole9881]

Even for that there's a better alternative. It's called Wonder Woman.

[@oof-rr5nf]

Always a plus.

[@KO-eu6jv]

Adam Levine is like the Adam Sandler of music. He could do a lot better a lot more, but just doesn’t because it’s easier to make easy, mass-produced garbage. *i want to see adam sandlers new movie, cant say i look forward to adam levine’s next venture*

[@jeremyusreevu237]

Except Adam Sandler is funny.

[@kieranstark7213]

I unsubbed to Lindsay Ellis (formerly *Nostalgia Chick* who used to collab with Todd in the Shadows) since she made a “moving” defense towards Stephenie Meyer/Twilight while saying that it’s hypocritical to (highly) prefer The Fast and the Furious over Twilight (yes, she has been infamous for treating The Fast and the Furious like “Twilight for teenage boys”) instead of Michael Bay/Bayformers, Ken Penders/2010s Archie Comics and Adam Sandler/Happy Madison.

[@acanofvancampsbeaneeweenee2037]

Watching this in 2024 - that Usher commentary at the end manifested itself.

[@nritsch]

Not another hit from "Adam the Asthmatic Chipmunk and Four Guys Poking Synthesizers"!

[@florida_mane6267]

I think his feature on Heard Em' Say is the most I've ever liked him.

[@ipeegaming]

heebs boy yep

[@aclstudios]

I think there's five guys now

[@nritsch]

4 not counting adam

[@Fuziontony123]

*Four Chord Progression*

[@vintagearisen]

I'm not sure why anyone is listening to Maroon 5 when "most improved artist of 2017" Charlie Puth exists.

[@awookieandagerman]

thevintagerose Attention is a killer single, I’ll say it. Decent album as well and Charlie can put some life into his voice when he wants to. I’m rooting for he guy.

[@florida_mane6267]

Soccer moms.

[@mikerivera373]

I don’t understand the US. Charlie Puth In 2015/2016 is the worst thing about existence, and we make all of his songs hits. Then 2017 rolls around, and we give him one big hit, but he gets less and less success as time continues. Done For Me was easily his best song, and we just let that song drop like rock in water.

[@mentalillness1574]

Mike’s Music Reviews Way I Am is rising pretty fast on the Hot 100. #61 this week

[@lydiavalentino]

cold hands WE CAN STILL DO THIS

[@irispurpurea2616]

Todd says this is the worst song they’ve ever written and I immediately googled when memories was released… sure enough it was a year later😂

[@henryam503]

I think you're really underestimating how attractive people find Adam Levine

[@GarveyToure]

right

[@celtytompkins5294]

I've never gotten it, he reminds me of the rodents who skuttle past my window at 2a.m.

[@TahtahmesDiary]

Well he better coast on those people attracted to him as long as he can cuz he doesnt have much else going on and looks tend to fade with age.

[@sanriodeppressionthermos8602]

He just looks like a blank-slate-probably-in-the-army-and-listens-to-louder-with-crowder dick head. The only thing thats kind of ok about him is the pp line.

[@moonmelodies8974]

he's incredibly unattractive in my opinion