POP SONG REVIEW: "Girls Like You" by Maroon 5

whoa if there's gonna be a Scooter song on this channel there needs to be a bidding war for it, because Suavamente is the most incredibly bad Scooter song, and afaik his actual best work is on a Mortal Kombat soundtrack, of all places

Kim Stiens

Can i pay you like...$100 next month to do 'RAMP! The logical song' by Scooter?

Ólafur Aronsson

It's funny you ask if Adam Levine is real or virtual because he's LITERALLY a hologram in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

Andrew Lenahan

One of them is Wonder Woman and Francheca Ramsey from that Decoded show on mtv’s YouTube channel. I’m sure Gal Gadot doesn’t need this paycheck. Unless....does Adam Levine have dirt on these women and they had to do this video for him to keep his mouth shut? Oh god. I hope not.

Yvette

I was wondering why so many women in the video were wearing eye-rolling empowering slogans t-shirts in the video. Guess I got my answer.

Stripes

Holy crap, a Janelle half-time show? WHY NOT?!

Grace

"Why this song?" That's what I ask about every song to get popular these days. Does it even matter anymore?

Jon Heiman

The sad part is, there's something in this song that COULD be listenable if it were by a different band. The rhythm and cadence of the lyrical flow (meaningless though those lyrics might be) versus the steady, mellow backbeat...in the hands of a better singer this could be a nice, chill jam. Maroon 5 just makes it sound bland and lifeless because they themselves are bland and lifeless. Also, how on earth did he get Ellen and Mary J. Blige in his video? And who are the other girls going so hard they make the video WAY better than the song deserves?

Curt Clark

I'd say something like, don't worry some new tech will come in and change everything, except with the explosion of monopolies I have no faith at all that we'll ever see innovation ever again. Welcome to the cyber dystopia, way less aesthetic than predicted.

De

Oh dang, thanks. Remember everyone: If you catch an editing error, PLEASE BRING THAT TO ME IMMEDIATELY, I owe you so much for anyone who catches that before it goes on YouTube.

Todd in the Shadows

Man, it was only like 5 or 6 years ago that I'd finally come around to the fact that the internet killed the album in favour of the single. It's some crazy whiplash now for the internet to turn around and kill the single in favour of the album!

Joe G

Yo Janelle Monae is also from Atlanta. Just saying...

Henry Kathman

Gotta disagree on this being Maroon 5's worst. Animals and Don't Want to Know are still in my mind the ties for the worst. The former is so unthreatening and lame it makes it a failed Terrible Lie. The latter is just thouroughly embarrassing to listen to because it sounds like a child's song and waste's Kendrick Lamarr.

Sol Rabbit

Great review as always! I went out to dinner with my mom a few months back and we were put right next to the speaker. A Maroon 5 song came on (don't ask me which one) and she looked at me and said "This sounds like elevator music." That sums it up pretty well. (One minor thing: The audio at 11:25 overlaps with the actual music video.)

Peter Cetera has an amazing voice, way better then Levine. I quite like Chicago's 80s period.

LifeIsStrange

Eminem didn't flop though, as his MGK diss track "Killshot" has been one of the most succesful songs of the year so far and it was one of the biggest debuts on Youtube for a rap artist EVER, it got like 36 million views within a day of it's release.

LifeIsStrange

I think the "last ones left" line hits on it. All the recent "flops" from big stars were surprising, following up legitimate smashes to some extent or other. Maroon 5's new release is mediocre, but it's not noticeably worse than the stuff they were releasing, so people just kind of keep going along with it. It also makes me think about this article (<a href="https://www.theringer.com/music/2018/5/16/17359422/post-malone-beerbongs-and-bentleys-white-iverson-rapper-review)" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.theringer.com/music/2018/5/16/17359422/post-malone-beerbongs-and-bentleys-white-iverson-rapper-review)</a> that I remember seeing somewhere after the Post Malone video, where it compared it to essentially Spotify-friendly Muzak

Theo Gerome

If Adam Levine doesn't howl at the super bowl halftime show, I'll be so mad.

Personally, I prefer "cyborg robot goose"

I still reference your "frog choking on a harmonica" line when describing Adam Levine's voice to anyone who asks what I think about Maroon 5. There really is no better description for how he sounds.

Thomas Carmody