This Week On Billboard: Maroon 5 - Makes Me Wonder
This Week On Billboard is where I unabashedly critique the current no. 1 hit on Billboard.com, the major yardstick for what's "hot" in music today. In order to simplify the review for those who don't want to read the whole article, each song is given a "!" rating, in which the finest grabs five of them.
Maroon 5 submits another bid to become this generation's Jamiroquai. It's another extremely danceable disco-soul retread minus the actual "soul" in the vocals, which is a style I would choose over their banal soft-rock side of "This Love" and "She Will Be Loved". The verse melodies are a bit weak; but everything else—the growling bass synth, the lean and funky guitars, the falsetto chorus—is delightfully haunting. It's breezy, it's catchy, it's everything you want from a pop song. If Adam Levine can invest in a variety of ridiculous head gear and work on his treadmill choreography, then they may just attain the goal they covet.
Weeks in No. 1: 2
Weeks in Chart: 5
From the upcoming It Won't Be Soon Before Long LP
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Maroon 5 submits another bid to become this generation's Jamiroquai. It's another extremely danceable disco-soul retread minus the actual "soul" in the vocals, which is a style I would choose over their banal soft-rock side of "This Love" and "She Will Be Loved". The verse melodies are a bit weak; but everything else—the growling bass synth, the lean and funky guitars, the falsetto chorus—is delightfully haunting. It's breezy, it's catchy, it's everything you want from a pop song. If Adam Levine can invest in a variety of ridiculous head gear and work on his treadmill choreography, then they may just attain the goal they covet.
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