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Album: Maroon 5 - 'Overexposed'
Member Since: 6/9/2012
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Well the Album has the same "style" all over, but not all songs sounds the same. i can recommend you the following songs wich are my favorites:
One More Night, Lucky Strike, Ladykiller, Fortune Teller, Sad, Tickets, Beautiful Goodbye, Wipe Your Eyes
(btw. the song "Kiss" is a Cover from Prince, but it sounds very like an old song from the 50s/60s how they play it lol, but interesting
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Member Since: 2/14/2012
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That Payphone (Supreme Cuts Remix) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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Member Since: 3/27/2012
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I just love Kiss... Great cover, it shouldn't be a Bonus Track I think!
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Member Since: 2/14/2012
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They sampled the flawless Sabali for Wipe Your Eyes?????
The result isn't really interesting tbh...
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Member Since: 10/13/2008
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The album is like one long song.
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Member Since: 5/13/2011
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Lucky Strike
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Member Since: 4/22/2012
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oh man, what happened to Wipe Your Eyes, I loved the other version with the intro and piano
hopefully it'll grow on me like the rest of the album, I didn't like it much after the first listen but then I went back to it a day later and I'm starting to get into it now.
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Member Since: 9/21/2010
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Originally posted by PopBoi
Are all the songs like Payphone/Moves Like Jagger? I wanna listen but i wont bother if its all generic
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It's really worth listening imo.
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Member Since: 8/17/2011
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Originally posted by gallimel
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Me too There's not too many people here that talk about it like this, or are really insightful when it comes to pop music, so it's a nice change of pace.
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Originally posted by gallimel
I just want to try to explain those bits in Doing Dirt (what I saw in them at least), and telling you Kiwi is one of my favorite M5 songs EVER, too
Anyway... Doing Dirt depicts (from what I get) the "at distance" relationship Adam and Anne V had to sustain.
Whoever followed their twitters know they were used to stay awake in opposite sides of the globe 80% of times they spent as a couple... so let's guess in a way Skype became their way sometimes to "connect". I suppose when they had their moments of time together, it had happened that the night out with friends they had wanted to be soon turned into "let's go home by ourselves and let's spend OUR time together".
Doing Dirt for real and not merely over Skype/subsidiaries ways.
This are the lyrics:
" Oh, yeah, oh yeah
Hey you, don't want to love you on the telephone
You're hanging up and now I am all alone
Baby you got me doing dirt, doing dirt, doing dirt
And now I wanna fan you but you're off the run
My heart's exploding like a burning some
I know you like it when it hurts, when it hurts
Hold me we're dancing in the dark of the night
You're shining like a neon light
I like you up, when I get inside
So won't you touch me? cause everybody's watching us now
We're putting on a show for the crowd
So turn it up baby make it loud
Hey you, say that you're only have and then
You call me up at 3am again
Baby you got me doing dirt, doing dirt, doing dirt
And now all that I got is just a microphone
To let you know that I am all alone
I know you like it when it hurts, when it hurts
Hold me we're dancing in the dark of the night
You're shining like a neon light
I like you up, when I get inside
So won't you touch me? cause everybody's watching us now
We're putting on a show for the crowd
So turn it up baby make it loud
Yeah, come on
So right now, I wanna leave with you right now
I wanna be with you all night, in the car let's go
Yeah let's take it home, let's take it home, let's take it home
So right now, I wanna leave with you right now
I wanna be with you all night, in the car let's go
Yeah let's take it home, let's take it home, let's take it home
Hold me we're dancing in the dark of the night
You're shining like a neon light
I like you up, when I get inside
So won't you touch me? cause everybody's watching us now
We're putting on a show for the crowd
So turn it up baby make it loud"
Undeniably, the part where he hints at the whole world watching them could not be any truer.
They loved to show off a lot, didn't they? (it's part of Adam's egomaniac tendency). That difficult balance they had to face among limited time being together, lots of eyes on themselves, and their different approaches to life also tainted the relationship a lot, and in some other song you get that clearly as well.
Doing Dirt is a song about the need of a truer skin contact in a couple with a way too limited time to spend together, but united by so much passion through things anyway.
The connotation of the "fair" and "light", shining female counterpart is also natural... Anne V is the quintessential description of a Russian beauty and truly luminous, so I don't see anything particularly strange in the way the lyrics parallels joy and happy sexuality with her physical features.
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It's interesting how you can connect all this and make it make sense. Are you sure you're not Adam himself?
I don't follow them that much though, so I can't really comment that much on it, but it seems you know what you're talking about!
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Originally posted by gallimel
As for the literacy of the descriptions, that is a club song and there's nothing really that strange in the "I like you up when I go inside".
It's all expected... Adam's very visual and has always been, and if in Kiwi he worded out things more, it's probably just because Natasha Bedingfield (the person the song might have been written about in many's books) probably inspired him more worded things
(you can never tell)
I likethe simplicity and the groove of Doing Dirt.
I would have never expected to dance on Maroon 5 but now I can add that to their list of gifts to me
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I guess that makes sense since it's a "club song," I just don't like the simplicity of it all I guess.
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Originally posted by gallimel
I still consider the lyrics mostly Adam effort and so I wouldn't really consider other people's involvement on them that mattering; also because he would never sing things he doesn't feel near to his idea first (he declared it numerous times).
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I agree that most of the lyrics are probably Adam, but I can tell that ALL of them are not. I can hear blatant Tedder and Shellback lyrics in there, especially in some songs. I guess he still feels it's true to him though.
Overall I feel like this album is more of a singles album, which is the way I feel about some other mainstream pop acts. There's no real theme or cohesion to it other than that its a mainstream cookie-cutter pop album. That's the main thing with me. I don't mind growth, but it doesn't feel like there's any here.
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Originally posted by gallimel
About the fact they want to part with the record label... I don't know how I feel about that.
I don't think it's a smart move to declare that on the verge of album promotional duties, because a label that is already lazy on you can already give up to you completely (did you see any major promotion, banners or anything for Overexposed? NO. And that is one of the reason probably: if I know an act will leave my tutoring, I won't really spend money as I could have under different circumstances on them, because that would benefit somebody that is soon becoming a competitor on me, and not a part of my roster).
But they have their strong views about the way a record company should handle bands and most definitely they were dissatisfied with Interscope/Octone already from 2008, so... we can just wait and see where this break up will lead them.
That's gonna be... interesting
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I'm interested to see what will happen after this too. I agree that it probably wasn't a good idea for Adam to say that, but Adam is always saying things he probably shouldn't be I wonder if they will even have a banner for the release. I'm sure they have to do something.
But yeah, I also wonder if they will stay with their current look because of success and the $$$? or really branch off in a completely new direction? Now I'm more excited for what happens after this album already
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Member Since: 8/25/2011
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Originally posted by KliFF
Me too There's not too many people here that talk about it like this, or are really insightful when it comes to pop music, so it's a nice change of pace.
It's interesting how you can connect all this and make it make sense. Are you sure you're not Adam himself?
Overall I feel like this album is more of a singles album, which is the way I feel about some other mainstream pop acts. There's no real theme or cohesion to it other than that its a mainstream cookie-cutter pop album. That's the main thing with me. I don't mind growth, but it doesn't feel like there's any here.
I'm interested to see what will happen after this too. I agree that it probably wasn't a good idea for Adam to say that, but Adam is always saying things he probably shouldn't be I wonder if they will even have a banner for the release. I'm sure they have to do something.
But yeah, I also wonder if they will stay with their current look because of success and the $$$? or really branch off in a completely new direction? Now I'm more excited for what happens after this album already
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Awww you're so sweet (and no... I'ìm NOT Adam and I am happy this way thank you )
I can't say yet anything about the cohesion of the album, because I haven't listened to it but for me generally with their works the cohesion itself had mostly to do with the source of inspiration and I feel that is actually VERY much a solid unique branch this time rather than with the previous two records, since the person that inspired ALL the feelings is just ONE and not a series of multiple flings.
If we are talking about the musical roots instead, yes, probably the songs will be less inspired by a only sound, since the mainstream kind of pop they were aiming for forcedly has to sound more oriented to a composed patchwork and some sort of immediate "hit-like" feeling.
All I know is that by default they will still always get the "everything they do sounds the same" accusation by many hipsters, which makes me laugh a lot because it's hardly possible being displeased for having changed the sound a lot from SAJ, IWBSBL and HAO with this and at the same time getting the old "all they do is basically the same" mark
About Adam being the champion of saying/doing all the things he isn't supposed to, I am in fact entertained by it, constantly.
I always look out for the next time he will make people angry, may it be stating his Laker faith, or his Democratic faith (his uncle is one of the Think tank of Democratic party since a life-long span... he's grown up immersed in the typical liberal Cali... what you'd expect him to stand up for?), or whatever will exit from his mouth from the gut/heart and never from the brain.
He's such a mess... a funny loveable mess, that won't probably care at all what people expect from him and Maroon 5 next, as long as he has new plans in mind.
What is for sure is that those guys will always be friend and will always be around each other, even if/when Maroon 5 will stop be.
But I believe they have at least another album to make together: Jesse is there to come back and when he will be back, and Adam will be done with TV and acting - I think this is his last stint on The Voice, for sure - and probably have fullfilled all of his "super-kid" phase, Maroon 5 will produce another R&B oriented record, just to say bye with that BANG and return to roots I know they are into them still.
Or... they will turn out to be T-Pain and record only with Avicii and Tiesto :P who knows
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Member Since: 4/30/2011
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I am *loving* this album now. It's such a grower!
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Member Since: 9/24/2009
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From the deluxe edition tracks, I only like Wipe Your Eyes and it's not even a brand new song
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Member Since: 4/30/2011
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Originally posted by gallimel
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Yay!
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Member Since: 5/12/2010
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I put Moves Like Jagger in the album and made it track number 1...
it syncs quite nicely with One More Night....
the whistle in the end.. and then the oohh ohh ohhh at the beggining is just amazing hahaha
and besides i never really like Moves Like Jagger to be included in Hands All over.. it just does not fit the album hahaha XP
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Member Since: 2/14/2012
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These deluxe tracks are pretty forgettable.
My favorite tracks by now: Ladykiller, Tickets, Doin' Dirt, Fortune Teller, Payphone and One More Night.
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Member Since: 11/2/2010
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My CD has been dispatched. Excited to hear this.
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Member Since: 9/21/2010
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My physical copy will arrive tomorrow!!
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Member Since: 10/8/2009
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Originally posted by WAZZZUP
It's really worth listening imo.
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Cool, I'll DL now and let yall know my thoughts tomorrow.
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Member Since: 8/17/2011
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I'm downloading this album right now, i hope i'll like it.
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