Maroon 5 is a typical example of sustainable and long-term musical development for groups with many members. The popular boy band up to now has also developed over the past two decades and has had certain changes in the number of members and trends in songwriting. Maroon 5 emerges with hits with R&B, soul or pop music styles,... really trendy and many hits are still very popular up to this point. A huge part of Maroon 5's success is thanks to its very own style. In the group's music, the expression is almost very realistic and close, not too fussy but creates a great attraction from this naturalness. Maroon 5's music rarely goes out of style when it comes to decades-long time. Here are the famous, loved and appreciated hits of Maroon 5 with quotes, reviews, comments from BillBoard Vietnam and some newspapers.
1 Memories
Maroon 5 - Memories (Official Video) (Image source: Billboard Vietnam)
Maroon 5 - Memories (Official Video)
Talking about Memories, on BillBoard Vietnam, there is a share: "If there is a song that makes listeners fall in love with the first verse, "Memories" will definitely be among them. With emotional vocals and catchy tunes. , "Memories" is expected to be a song that fans will replay continuously in the coming days.Not only that, meaningful lyrics are being shared a lot by fans on social networks in recent days. via: 'Everybody hurts sometimes, everybody hurts someday / Everything gonna be alright, go and raise a glass and say, hey/ […] Cause the drinks bring back all the memories. And the memories bring back memories, bring back your” ( There will be times when you feel pain, everything will be okay. Raise your glass and say… This glass of wine will bring back all the memories. Memories will bring you memories. …')".
Memories topped the iTunes chart after its release. Since its release, the song peaked at number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100, until peaking at number two behind Post Malone's Circles and becoming the band's tenth year top song. With Memories, Maroon 5 became the second band (the other being The Rolling Stones) to top the Hot 100 chart in three different decades (the 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s).
On the Pop Songs chart, the song peaked at number one, becoming number eleven and sharing this record with female artists Katy Perry and Rihanna, for number one on the chart. Memories also peaked at number one on the Adult Contemporary chart and stayed on the chart for 20 weeks in 2020.
2 Girls Like You
Maroon 5 - Girls Like You ft. Cardi B (Image source: Youtube)
Maroon 5 - Girls Like You ft. Cardi B (Official Music Video)
BillBoard Vietnam commented:
Since its release, "Girls Like You" has received great attention from the world. The catchy, attractive melody, meaningful lyrics and a series of top female stars appearing in the MV have helped the song quickly break many impressive milestones. Up to this point, just over a year and a month after its release, the MV has surpassed 2.28 billion views on YouTube. Thanks to that, "Girls Like You" became the 3rd fastest music video to reach 2.2 billion views globally (within 356.1 days). The MV follows “Despacito” with 164.5 days and “Shape Of You” (209.2 days).
Besides, "Girls Like You" is also ranked at 3rd place among the most viewed boy group MVs in YouTube history, following "Sugar" also by Maroon 5 and "Counting Stars" by OneRepublic. presently.
Not only was it successful on YouTube or the Adult Contemporary chart, but "Girls Like You" also dominated the Hot 100 for 7 weeks. In addition, the song also excellently won many awards at prestigious awards ceremonies, including 4 trophies at the Billboard Music Awards. “Girls Like You” also received nominations at many top events in the world such as Grammy (Best Pop Duo/Group Performance), MTV Video Music Awards, iHeartRadio Music Awards, Teen Choice Awards, …
With the new achievement on Adult Contemporary, fans must be looking forward to another collaboration product from Maroon 5 and Cardi B - two of the most popular names in the music industry.
3 Sugar
Maroon 5 - Sugar (Official Music Video) (Image source: Youtube)
Maroon 5 - Sugar (Official Music Video)
On an article titled "Adam Levine makes female fans go crazy for the new MV", VnExpress gave a review of Sugar. Based on the idea of the hit romantic comedy Wedding Crashers, MV Sugar has a plot revolving around the Maroon 5 group - the guys who play the "harassers" of real weddings in Los Angeles. Singer Adam Levine said: "On December 6, we drove around Los Angeles and at any wedding on the way to perform this song for the bride, groom and guests."
The MV follows the group Maroon 5 infiltrating the wedding venues of white, colored or Asian couples, secretly designing the scene, setting up the stage behind the white curtain, then suddenly appearing, perform the song to everyone's surprise.
The US newspaper commented, for these lucky brides and grooms, this must be a once-in-a-lifetime happy experience when the famous star who was also married last July sang to them. At the end of the MV, Adam Levine happily said: "Good evening, thank you so much, this is the best thing I've ever done."
Sugar is the third single from Maroon 5's fifth studio album V. Sugar's melody mixes Dance music, Funk music mixed with Pop and Soul music. The music and lyrics are highly appreciated by experts for attractiveness.
4 Maps
Maroon 5 - Maps (Explicit) (Image source: Youtube)
Maroon 5 - Maps (Explicit) (Official Music Video)
A bit of erotic rocking, a catchy pop, and an over-the-top vocal that's been molded over the years, the song depicts a relationship that's on the verge of falling apart, even though both still longing to hold each other, and still haunting each other in their hearts. Everything creates an echo between hope and despair, and the fast-paced rhythm of the song is like the chase of a dying love.
The song opens with Levine's signature high-pitched guitar and high-pitched vocals, and then he maintains it with an electric guitar bass. Although Levine's vocal quality remains unchanged, the song still gradually becomes stronger and fuller with the chorus not too explosive but full of dance music. The bass is not very prominent, but the chorus of “Maps” reminds listeners of an EDM-style remix. The masterpiece is the long and passionate "you" that brings people into a state of adventure, indifference but endless sadness. - According to sharing on tinnhac.com
5 One More Night
Maroon 5 - One More Night (Official Music Video) (Image source: Youtube)
Maroon 5 - One More Night (Official Music Video)
"One More Night" is directed by Peter Berg, in which Levine plays a boxer who is working to financially support his girlfriend (played by Minka Kelly) and daughter. When he spends a lot of time training for a big game and pays little attention to his family, it leads to his girlfriend having to take her children out of the house afterwards. It has received critical acclaim for its emotional content, calling it a metaphor for the difficulties Levine faces in her personal life.
"One More Night" was also commercially successful, topping the charts in New Zealand and reaching the top 10 in many of the markets it appeared in, such as reaching the top five in major markets. such as Australia, Canada, Finland, Poland and Sweden. In the United States, the song peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for nine consecutive weeks, becoming Maroon 5's third single as well as selling more than 4.6 million copies there.
6 Payphone
Maroon 5 - Payphone ft. Wiz Khalifa (Explicit) (Image source: Youtube)
Maroon 5 - Payphone ft. Wiz Khalifa (Explicit) (Official Music Video)
Adam Levin - leader of Maroon 5 in the MV "Payphone" chose to call his lover from a public phone booth. It seems that singers are tending to be nostalgic with communication devices that were only popular in previous decades. It's like a reasonable background to call back to the past with beautiful memories of a time. “Payphone” is also a nostalgic call about a love that ended abruptly, leaving many regrets.
In the MV, Adam Levine plays a bank employee trying to escape from the scene of a bank robbery, holding a gun taken from a robber, he is mistaken by the police for one of the robbers. escape. From this confusion, Adam Levine's character made another escape from the police circle.
MV “Payphone” is made as a “mini” action movie. Besides the success on the music charts, "Payphone" was also one of the top 5 best-selling singles in the world in 2012.
7 Animals
Maroon 5 - Animals (Official Music Video) (Image source: Youtube)
Maroon 5 - Animals (Official Music Video)
“Animals” is Maroon 5's second single from the band's fifth studio album V. Immediately, with its signature Pop rock tune, the song quickly spread around the world and created to be a resounding success for the band. The song peaked at number 3 on the Billboard charts, making it to Rolling Stone's list of the 50 best songs of 2014 voted by Rolling Stone magazine.
Since its release, the "Animals" MV has been strongly condemned for its content that interferes with women's privacy and promotes violence by making that illegal act romantic and beautiful. fake beauty. Critics argue that snooping – which is characteristic of crime – should not be confused with romance, especially when it is conveyed through the entertainment industry.
On the other hand, in society when pragmatism is on the throne, people are more calculating, "Animals" is a message to young people that love and indulge in the most sincere and instinctive way. Therefore, despite many controversies, "Animals" is still considered one of the MVs that made Maroon 5's name.
8 What Lovers Do
Maroon 5 - What Lovers Do ft. SZA (Official Music Video) (Image source: Youtube)
Maroon 5 - What Lovers Do ft. SZA (Official Music Video)
“What Lovers Do” is like a luscious greasy ice cream that makes people flutter and flutter. The first is the antagonism in the vocals of Adam lavine and SZA. If SZA's voice is like an open-minded freshness that draws people into a dream, Adam Levine is passionate and jarring. It all comes together to become a dreamy song and fits the ending summer atmosphere, flowing on a spirited background music. It can be said that this is an upbeat and exciting song of Maroon 5.
It's not a great and successful song, though. The tropical tune that stood out in 2017 led many artists to pursue, forcing followers to create more. From Calvin Harris with elegance and emotional depth in “Feels” or “Slide” has dominated the summer with its distinct tropical resonance. Therefore, "What Lovers Do" is not really an impressive tropical EDM track and still has a formula. The Tropical House that the group applied was outdated and boring, the claps or the electronic guitar that created the perfect highlight could not save the song. It's more of a remix exercise than a song by a legendary band.
Like other summer songs with tropical influences, the lyrics of the songs often have fresh, fun, and sexual elements. However, during this time, the producers have "raised" electronic music, turning it into songs that are bold in rhythm and deep in lyrics. The lyrics in “What Lovers Do” are considered to be lacking in depth. Put next to the scale with "Strip That Down" or "Feels", it can be said that this song cannot compete with the other two masterpieces, even with the help of R&B singer SZA.
9 Beautiful Mistakes
Maroon 5 - Beautiful Mistakes ft. Megan Thee Stallion (Image source: Youtube)
Maroon 5 - Beautiful Mistakes ft. Megan Thee Stallion (Official Music Video)
The collaboration product "Beautiful Mistakes" by Maroon 5 and Megan Thee Stallion was officially aired on March 3, 2021. As the title suggests, the song is about the mistakes in love that everyone goes through when dating.
The song "Beautiful Mistakes" is a harmonious combination between the familiar Pop/Rock quality of Maroon 5 and the powerful Rap part from Megan Thee Stallion. The artists' first collaboration was co-written by Adam Levine and producer blackbear while spending the summer together in New York. Maroon 5's lead vocalist shared: "The hooks (chorus) that blackbear wrote, those are great melodies. But I think the whole song is a catchy hook."
Adam Levine also praised Megan Thee Stallion, saying that her rap pushed their song to the next level: "She brought out a whole new side of me that I never saw before. the song". Before female rapper "Savage", the boys collaborated with other famous rappers such as Wiz Khalifa (Payphone), Kendrick Lamar (Don't Wanna Know) and Cardi B (Girls Like You). On her personal Instagram, Megan Thee Stallion also expressed her excitement at this collaboration product with the band through behind-the-scenes photos of the MV filming with Adam Levine.
10 Moves Like Jagger
Maroon 5 - Moves Like Jagger ft. Christina Aguilera (Image source: Youtube)
Maroon 5 - Moves Like Jagger ft. Christina Aguilera (Official Music Video)
The group's song Moves like Jagger with the collaboration of Christina Aguilera was released in June 2011.
"Moves Like Jagger" is a disco-pop and electropop song, with a mix of rock and soul, featuring synths, fast beats, and electronic drums. Robbie Daw of Idolator writes that "Moves Like Jagger" is reminiscent of the Rolling Stones classic Miss You, adding Levine's voice is slightly distorted in the chorus. Following the intro of whistling and impromptu guitar accompaniment, Levine tries to impress the girl he likes with dances like Mick Jagger, and Aguilera makes a teasing appearance with her signature high mid-section. transition.
It became the band's biggest hit and peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. It's another version of the song from the band's 2010 album Hands All Over, which once peaked at number two on the chart. Billborad 200 rating.
