Maroon 5 is an American pop rock band that originates from Los Angeles, California. The group was originally formed in 1994 as Kara's Flowers while they were still attending high school. With a line-up of Adam Levine, Jesse Carmichael, Mickey Madden and Ryan Dusick, they signed to Reprise Records and released an album, The Fourth World, in 1997. After a tepid response to the album, the band parted with their record label and attended college. In 2001, the band regrouped and added James Valentine to the lineup, and pursued a new direction under the name Maroon 5.
Maroon 5 signed with Octone Records and released their debut under the title Songs About Jane in June 2002. The album's lead single - "Harder to Breathe" - received heavy airplay, which helped the album to debut at number six on the US Billboard 200 chart. The album's second and third singles, "This Love" and "She Will Be Loved", became worldwide hits reaching the top-five on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. The band won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2005. For the next few years, the band toured extensively worldwide in support of Songs About Jane and issued two live recordings: 2004's 1.22.03.Acoustic and 2005's Live – Friday the 13th. In 2006, drummer, percussionist and backing vocalist Ryan Dusick departed the band and subsequently replaced by Matt Flynn. The revised band recorded their second album It Won't Be Soon Before Long in early 2007 and released it in May the same year. The album peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, while its lead single, "Makes Me Wonder", became the band's first number-one song on the US Billboard Hot 100.
Hands All Over, the band's third studio album, was released in September 2010 and peaked at number two on the Billboard 200 chart. In 2011, the album was reissued and supported by their single "Moves like Jagger" which features American singer Christina Aguilera. The song became the band's second single to reach number one on the Hot 100 chart; it has sold over 8.5 million copies worldwide making it one of the best-selling singles worldwide. Maroon 5 released their fourth studio album Overexposed in June 2012. The album peaked at number two on the Billboard 200 chart. Its first two singles, "Payphone" and "One More Night", were both international hits and peaked at two and one on the Hot 100 chart respectively. Since its debuting in 2002, the band has sold over 10 million albums in the United States, and over 27 million albums worldwide.
History :
1989–2002: Kara's Flowers and the formation of Maroon 5
2002–2006: Songs About Jane and Dusick's departure
2006–2008: It Won't Be Soon Before Long
2008–2011: Hands All Over
2012–2013: Overexposed
2013–present: Fifth studio album
Musical style and influences
"I think the classic Maroon 5 song is minor, and it has some funk, Nile Rodgers-style guitar and the lyrics are probably about getting your heart broken. So minor, funk and heartbreak -- that’s the Maroon 5 formula."
—Valentine on what he felt was the typical Maroon 5 sound
Adam Levine has stated: "[E]verything that's written and performed and put together pretty much comes from us. I just think people would be surprised to know that we’re a self-contained unit. We’re a band that does their own thing. There’s no puppet master."
However, in an article about the songwriter and producer Benny Blanco, subtitled "Benny Blanco, Hit Maker for Rihanna and Maroon 5," it is revealed that at least some of Maroon 5's songs, such as "Moves Like Jagger," are the product of efforts by, or collaborations with, professional songwriters and producers.[55] In the same article, Adam Levine is quoted as saying: “It’s almost as if [Benny Blanco] has the Midas touch in putting the right people together at the right time to create a musical moment. He’s about the collaboration. And he’s so good at nailing down who does everything best.”
Maroon 5 has cited Michael Jackson, The Police, Talking Heads, Aaliyah, Oasis, Shabba Ranks, and Prince as influences. Adam Levine has also cited Stevie Wonder as one of his heroes. Further, James Valentine said he was influenced by guitarists like Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell and John Scofield as well as the rock band, Queens of the Stone Age. Maroon 5's songs tend to be very guitar-heavy, often accompanied by piano or synthesizer. The theme in all of their songs is love, frequently lost love; songs like "This Love", "Makes Me Wonder" and "Misery" have a very cynical tone, often expressing dissatisfaction with a relationship, while their more heartfelt and emotional songs such as "She Will Be Loved", "Never Gonna Leave This Bed" express a longing for a romantic relationship. "Makes Me Wonder" has a secondary theme, in which Levine expresses his disillusionment and frustration with the state of American politics and the Iraq War.
Maroon 5's sound changes from album to album. Songs About Jane consists of songs about Levine's ex-girlfriend Jane. On It Won't Be Soon Before Long, however, the songs are less personal, and are more electric with more use of synthesizers, creating a retro feel. Hands All Over continues the band's lost love theme, along with songs about infatuation, and was re-released in 2011, with the hit single "Moves like Jagger", an electropop song featuring Christina Aguilera (who, along with Levine, is one of the judges and coaches on the U.S. Version of The Voice), which represents a drastic change in the band's sound, with more of a dance feel to it. "It was one of those songs that was definitely a risk," Levine said. "It's a bold statement. We've never really released a song like that. But it's exciting to do something different, do something new. I'm just glad that everyone likes it." When announcing their fourth album, Overexposed, Valentine called the album "our most 'pop' record ever and we weren’t shy about really going for it." In a separate interview about Maroon 5's fifth album, which is still being written, Valentine said: "The stuff we're working on now, it definitely has gone maybe a little darker in its sound, maybe back a little bit more to what we kind of did on Songs About Jane."
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