Maroon 5 – Love Somebody
“Hang With Me” by Tom Waits, Richard X producing Jessie J…
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Katherine St Asaph: Adam Levine Singing At Mach 5, featuring Postulant Etienne.
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Alfred Soto: Adam Levine over sequencers is like Michael Bolton over a Scott Walker track. Points for not covering the Rick Springfield classic, though.
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Scott Mildenhall: Fortunately not a cover of the apocalyptic Robbie Williams ten-week number one that never was, but instead an exercise in proving that a fairly pretty, crystalline/anaemic electro production won’t feel completely right for Adam Levine’s digitised honk; imagine Heather Small covering “With Every Heartbeat”. The lyrics are confused, too — one minute he’s nervous of falling for you and your completely incidental hollow insides (you should see a doctor about that), then he’s thinking about you every day, and yet you’re a hard act for him to follow, even though nothing has happened yet, apart from you being halfway there, from where he’s going to ask you to stay with him tonight, despite wanting you to love him today and not leave him tomorrow. Basically it’s a load of malformed gibberish that’s just about pleasant, based on a similar theme to which Snow Patrol more successfully riffed on a few years ago with a lightness of touch all too sadly lacking here.
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Will Adams: There was promise in the synth arpeggio, but it was soon dashed by the cardboard drums and me filling in the wrong synonym for “I really wanna touch somebody.”
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Patrick St. Michel: The way this song gently builds, and its general litheness, works in a way very little of Maroon 5’s material has. But Adam Levine’s voice is totally out of place. The way he rhymes words in the verses just sounds so awkward.
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Anthony Easton: When can we stop pretending that this is anything more than an Adam Levine joint?The “Moves Like Jagger” assumption of his own sexual skills and talents is much more convincing than this pathos. Not that either are that charming or worthwhile.
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Brad Shoup: So blatantly a functional product, it comes with packing peanuts. You can hear the echoes of pistons and the whir of jigs. There’s the light skitter of EDM in the background, the flattened disco backbeat, the faded howls: this is the softest music in the world.
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I actually really like this! Like, [7] like it! And it sounds like Maroon 5 trying to combine Robyn and The Killers circa “Human.” I grade on the Will This Make Me Want To Shoot My Radio scale, though.