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Album: Maroon 5 - 'Overexposed'
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I love Payphone because it's so different from their usual first singles. Their first singles are usually more funky, groovy & uptempo. I also loved that they worked with a rapper.
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If it were for Adam, they would probably always work in every album with a rapper... (anything being better than the Ying/Yang twins, also  ).
I really love the way Payphone mirrors something so true and recent... It surely is "just" a pop song (I mean, if I wanted to listen to highly crafted music I would directly go to Radiohead, and I do, but when I do like to listen to pop, I prefer to direct myself to hose writing their songs at least  ), but it's something that sticks within you if you just have memory of something similar ever happening to you.
I like that relatable quality in pop. A lot.
And whatever people dismissing them (as usual) are saying, truth is the performance of Payphone so far, with no promo at all, is IMPRESSIVE.
If it weren't for the awesome indie gem that Somebody That I Used To Know is, they would have been number one since their debut on iTunes (they still, two version combined, always around 90% which is incredible).
I'm really happy for them.
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That behind the scenes footage looks good 
But I'm actually worried about Payphone and its sound. I hope they haven't abandoned their funky sound for this album. Wango Tango sounds groovy though  |
They have stated they went "super pop" with this album, which means they will infuse different tracks with different vibes, gazing over all tracks a pop feel, just like pop records do .
There will probably be some funk-ish songs, but if people look out for SAJ style, they won't find it (and why should they... ten years later that sound is past... it somehow bothers me as a fan that M5 have always variated their main sound on each album - SAJ was funky, IWBSBL was 80's glamorous refinedly pop, HAO was more straight forwarding neat rock/pop, and this will be a pop kaleidoscope as far as they are hinting at, but everyone just asks for "more funk"? They have so many influences in themselves, I think it's better to exploit them all instead than just re-quote yourself musically?).
The funky ones in the band are Mickey and James, so I guess some of that sound has to be somewhere...
What I love is that even if he's on a sabbatical and temporary hiatus from the band, Overexposed will still have a contribution from the classiest one in Maroon 5, Jesse, who wrote with Adam and James a song just three weeks ago and that allegedly has made the final cut.
Anyway, in their live gigs all Maroon 5 songs become "funkier", so that sound will anyway belong to this era too.
It's one of the reason I love to catch them on stage.
They're so laid back and stripped down.
It's always a rewarding experience to hear them unfiltered and raw 
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Originally posted by gallimel
They have stated they went "super pop" with this album, which means they will infuse different tracks with different vibes, gazing over all tracks a pop feel, just like pop records do .
There will probably be some funk-ish songs, but if people look out for SAJ style, they won't find it (and why should they... ten years later that sound is past... it somehow bothers me as a fan that M5 have always variated their main sound on each album - SAJ was funky, IWBSBL was 80's glamorous refinedly pop, HAO was more straight forwarding neat rock/pop, and this will be a pop kaleidoscope as far as they are hinting at, but everyone just asks for "more funk"? They have so many influences in themselves, I think it's better to exploit them all instead than just re-quote yourself musically?). |
Well I don't necessarily mean strictly SAJ funk, just groovy or funky in general. Every single (and definitely lead singles) of theirs have had that. From Harder To Breathe and This Love, to Makes Me Wonder and Wake Up Call, and finally Misery and Give A Little More.
I actually enjoy their transitions, and they have all been pop, but Payphone is pushing it IMO. It's very manufactured. I actually enjoy hearing all the instruments in their songs, rather than just sonic noises.
All of this makes sense and is a good business decision since Adam has regained his fame though. Plus, it will keep them relevant for a certain amount of time. Their albums have actually gotten progressively more 'pop' since SAJ anyway, so it's not TOO far of a stretch.
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Originally posted by gallimel
The funky ones in the band are Mickey and James, so I guess some of that sound has to be somewhere...
What I love is that even if he's on a sabbatical and temporary hiatus from the band, Overexposed will still have a contribution from the classiest one in Maroon 5, Jesse, who wrote with Adam and James a song just three weeks ago and that allegedly has made the final cut.
Anyway, in their live gigs all Maroon 5 songs become "funkier", so that sound will anyway belong to this era too.
It's one of the reason I love to catch them on stage.
They're so laid back and stripped down.
It's always a rewarding experience to hear them unfiltered and raw |
That's true It'll be interesting to hear this new album live.
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Well I don't necessarily mean strictly SAJ funk, just groovy or funky in general. Every single (and definitely lead singles) of theirs have had that. From Harder To Breathe and This Love, to Makes Me Wonder and Wake Up Call, and finally Misery and Give A Little More.
I actually enjoy their transitions, and they have all been pop, but Payphone is pushing it IMO. It's very manufactured. I actually enjoy hearing all the instruments in their songs, rather than just sonic noises.
All of this makes sense and is a good business decision since Adam has regained his fame though. Plus, it will keep them relevant for a certain amount of time. Their albums have actually gotten progressively more 'pop' since SAJ anyway, so it's not TOO far of a stretch.
That's true It'll be interesting to hear this new album live. |
The production is Benny Blanco's trademark, and while it sure detracts from pure guitar sound, it still sound on Payphone way better (in terms of instrumental realness) than it was for Moves Like Jagger imho.
Sure, I hope other tracks can show better guitaring and keys though.
I am pretty confident the tracks they did with Ryan Tedder will have that less formula-ready sound.
Those were recorded in "happy relationship times" so I expect THE ballad & the funky happy sexy coming from those three cuts
I am suuuuuure I will love their new tour a lot.
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Some online sources are reporting that Blake Shelton will be featured on track 11 (Doin' Dirt), but it's still not 100% confirmed yet.
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Some online sources are reporting that Blake Shelton will be featured on track 11 (Doin' Dirt), but it's still not 100% confirmed yet.
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I doubt it.
From Rolling Stone article that was quoting exactly a hint to that song, Doing Dirt has a heavy club beat...
And they stated there are no other features on the album beside Wiz.
I would adore a duet with Blake though.
Imagine the video Brokeback Mountain style...
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I doubt it.
From Rolling Stone article that was quoting exactly a hint to that song, Doing Dirt has a heavy club beat...
And they stated there are no other features on the album beside Wiz. |
What Rolling Stone article? Album preview review?
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I would adore a duet with Blake though.
Imagine the video Brokeback Mountain style... |
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What Rolling Stone article? Album preview review?
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The current number with Radiohead on the cover (ah!!!!! BEST BAND  Radiohead = KINGS!) has a feature with them in studio.
If you go to Rolling Stone site there is actually an excerpt
It's not really the preview yet, not complete at least.
But it's cute (and yes... expect LOTS of Pop... LOTS).
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Originally posted by gallimel
The current number with Radiohead on the cover (ah!!!!! BEST BAND Radiohead = KINGS!) has a feature with them in studio.
If you go to Rolling Stone site there is actually an excerpt
It's not really the preview yet, not complete at least.
But it's cute (and yes... expect LOTS of Pop... LOTS). |
I can't see it because I'm not subscribed 
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I can't see it because I'm not subscribed |
This is the article taken from here :
"Maroon 5 Aim for Dance-Floor Domination on new LP"
By Matt Diehl
May 7, 2012 11:50 AM ET
"That sounds huge!" yells Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine, rocking a Peter Tosh Legalize It T-shirt. The band is recording its fourth LP, Overexposed (due June 26th), at L.A.'s Conway Studios, and "Doin' Dirt" – a revved, funky club cut – is blasting from the massive monitors. "It's very much an old-fashioned disco tune," Levine says when it ends. "I have a love/hate relationship with it – but mostly I love it." Adds bassist Mickey Madden, "That's usually a good sign."
The love/hate vibe is all over Levine's recent successes, from NBC's hit singing competition The Voice to Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger" – the shamelessly poppy Number One single with fellow Voice judge Christina Aguilera that became the band's hugest smash ever. "'Jagger' was almost a mistake," says Levine. "I was scared to release it – but also turned on by that fear. It was the fresh injection we needed. We've been together a long time – it's like a marriage, where we needed to get kinky in the bedroom." "It actually has spiced up our marriage," adds guitarist James Valentine. "I love you guys more now!"
Levine's gig as a judge on The Voice has boosted the band's profile, but it took a while for the rest of Maroon 5 to get used to Levine's TV career. "At first, I was hesitant to watch The Voice," says Valentine. "I didn't watch the first season at all. I don't need to turn on the TV to hear Adam's opinions – that's not entertainment for me. But when I finally caught it, I got hooked like everyone else. Now, I find myself yelling at the TV, 'Turn your chair around, Adam! If you don't, that guy's kids won't have health insurance!'"
"Jagger," co-written by hitmakers Benny Blanco and Shellback, was Maroon 5's first experience with outside writers. When they returned to the studio last fall, they brought back Blanco and Shellback and hired dance-pop king Max Martin, the man behind hits by Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson and Katy Perry, as Overexposed's executive producer. "Sometimes a co-writer will write something that's almost better than what you would do, and it's like, '****!'" says Levine. Adds Valentine, "Up to now, we've been insulated from the pop-industrial complex. We've been like, '**** you, we're a band.' But now, stepping into this new world of songwriters and producers, it feels fun."
The result is Maroon 5's most dance-driven album ever, with standout tracks including the pounding house cut "Payphone," featuring an irresistible Wiz Khalifa verse, and the sexy reggae jam "One More Night." At Conway Studios, Levine grooves as the track winds down. "In a way, we've had a rebirth," he says. "It's been 10 years since we started the band, when nobody knew what the hell to do with five white guys trying to sing soul music.
"Now, we thought we should see where this goes – why not? We can't keep doing the same thing forever. At this point, we want to be a little bit scared."
This story is from the April 26th, 2012 issue of Rolling Stone.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...#ixzz1uY753RpN
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This is the article taken from here :
"Maroon 5 Aim for Dance-Floor Domination on new LP"
By Matt Diehl
May 7, 2012 11:50 AM ET
"That sounds huge!" yells Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine, rocking a Peter Tosh Legalize It T-shirt. The band is recording its fourth LP, Overexposed (due June 26th), at L.A.'s Conway Studios, and "Doin' Dirt" – a revved, funky club cut – is blasting from the massive monitors. "It's very much an old-fashioned disco tune," Levine says when it ends. "I have a love/hate relationship with it – but mostly I love it." Adds bassist Mickey Madden, "That's usually a good sign."
The love/hate vibe is all over Levine's recent successes, from NBC's hit singing competition The Voice to Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger" – the shamelessly poppy Number One single with fellow Voice judge Christina Aguilera that became the band's hugest smash ever. "'Jagger' was almost a mistake," says Levine. "I was scared to release it – but also turned on by that fear. It was the fresh injection we needed. We've been together a long time – it's like a marriage, where we needed to get kinky in the bedroom." "It actually has spiced up our marriage," adds guitarist James Valentine. "I love you guys more now!"
Levine's gig as a judge on The Voice has boosted the band's profile, but it took a while for the rest of Maroon 5 to get used to Levine's TV career. "At first, I was hesitant to watch The Voice," says Valentine. "I didn't watch the first season at all. I don't need to turn on the TV to hear Adam's opinions – that's not entertainment for me. But when I finally caught it, I got hooked like everyone else. Now, I find myself yelling at the TV, 'Turn your chair around, Adam! If you don't, that guy's kids won't have health insurance!'"
"Jagger," co-written by hitmakers Benny Blanco and Shellback, was Maroon 5's first experience with outside writers. When they returned to the studio last fall, they brought back Blanco and Shellback and hired dance-pop king Max Martin, the man behind hits by Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson and Katy Perry, as Overexposed's executive producer. "Sometimes a co-writer will write something that's almost better than what you would do, and it's like, '****!'" says Levine. Adds Valentine, "Up to now, we've been insulated from the pop-industrial complex. We've been like, '**** you, we're a band.' But now, stepping into this new world of songwriters and producers, it feels fun."
The result is Maroon 5's most dance-driven album ever, with standout tracks including the pounding house cut "Payphone," featuring an irresistible Wiz Khalifa verse, and the sexy reggae jam "One More Night." At Conway Studios, Levine grooves as the track winds down. "In a way, we've had a rebirth," he says. "It's been 10 years since we started the band, when nobody knew what the hell to do with five white guys trying to sing soul music.
"Now, we thought we should see where this goes – why not? We can't keep doing the same thing forever. At this point, we want to be a little bit scared."
This story is from the April 26th, 2012 issue of Rolling Stone.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...#ixzz1uY753RpN
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Interesting. Well this is completely new. I don't mind the change, obviously they want to move on to something new.
However, I feel like this "rebirth" is more than they're putting it off to be.
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"It's been 10 years since we started the band, when nobody knew what the hell to do with five white guys trying to sing soul music."
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This is essentially what Maroon 5 is though. The change is fine, but it's almost as if they're a completely different band, and should just rename it like they did with Kara's Flowers. This is more than a progression. It's a complete 180 (or at least 90) degree turn.
Now I know that this won't happen, and would be a poor choice at this point in their career, but still. It'll be interesting to hear the rest of the tracks, even though it's kind of hard to trust an article that calls 'Payphone' a "pounding house cut" 
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Interesting. Well this is completely new. I don't mind the change, obviously they want to move on to something new.
However, I feel like this "rebirth" is more than they're putting it off to be.
This is essentially what Maroon 5 is though. The change is fine, but it's almost as if they're a completely different band, and should just rename it like they did with Kara's Flowers. This is more than a progression. It's a complete 180 (or at least 90) degree turn.
Now I know that this won't happen, and would be a poor choice at this point in their career, but still. It'll be interesting to hear the rest of the tracks, even though it's kind of hard to trust an article that calls 'Payphone' a "pounding house cut" |
Totally agreeing on the reliability of the writer there
About the SAJ nostalgia... I don't have any.
They have always strived for marketability, and it's not like they are not playing their instruments anymore or like in this album they have let the majority of writing to others...
Adam keeps singing his own lyrics; and James and Mickey keep providing their riffs; I know I will miss Jesse's input (beside in that one only song where he will still be) but I am looking forward to some quality pop on radio so I don't mind if they have lost their blue grass roots there.
They will get back to white soul when it gets back in auge, I'm sure
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They have always strived for marketability, and it's not like they are not playing their instruments anymore or like in this album they have let the majority of writing to others...
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This article, and other sources sure make it sound like that though...
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This article, and other sources sure make it sound like that though...
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I am sure of my statement; if you follow their twitters or people related to them, for a year and a half they have had numerous sessions along with the three of them (and PJ Morton assisting) writing, and recording excerpts of songs, all over while they were on tour.
The only one that has followed at least three songs close, in a collaborative enough writing contribution (don't know if about music, lyrics or both) is Ryan Tedder the past fall.
They keep in fact kind... hating MLJ (even though they love its impact) because that was a song where for real their own input was minimal, having just Adam contributed - and barely - to lyrics (thing he hates... he doesn't like to sing lyrics that are not his) and some more to riffs and production (but still not as much as he'd loved to).
The album will be fine enough "theirs".
I still a bit undecided about how the simpleness of Blanco's beats can uniform the level (I hope not too much on the low side), but the fact Max Martin has just "supervisioned" and has not really had an intervention deeper than that let me reassured the material still "maroon 5" enough.
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This article, and other sources sure make it sound like that though...
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Of course for them it still a big deal to have let other contribute to the creative side (it's more in their words that the impact sounds big.. because they originate as a garage band, and that step sure had to weight a bit on them: they didn't even let Mutt Lange have any creative say beside production in Hands All Over... and they surrender to Blanco? it has to feel big to them, for sure!).
In a corner of their minds, the part of them that still belong to no mainstream, I am sure someway they still think "Okay, our own teenage heart bleeds because this is a selling out".
But their adult side probably think there's nothing wrong with that.
And after all they all will become producers when Maroon 5 will stop be; so they better start to understand what a creative effort mean, in more than one way, for the pop sake.
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Shouldn't there be a second single or promo single coming soon?
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I hope we get snippets soon.
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I hope we get snippets soon.
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Me too. Maybe they'll have the previews up soon, since you can already preorder it
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15 days.
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