
I almost picture myself in an intimate nightclub setting with an amazing live band up on stage thrilling a live. 2007 - It Won't Be Soon Before Long (Deluxe Edition) 01 If I Never See Your Face Again. Man, listening to this album in sequence after vibing to Maroon 5s first three albums is fcking depressing. 'Payphone' debuted at a powerful 3 on the Bilboard Hot 100 and eventually rose to 2. Review Summary: More depressing than a funeral, Maroon 5 stops plateauing and starts nosediving here. The band worked with producer Benny Blanco and debuted the song with a live performance on The Voice. 'Payphone' is the first single from Maroon 5s fifth studio album Overexposed. Stream ad-free with Amazon Music Unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. MAROON 5 Overexposed (2012 UK 13-track CD album, the fourth studio album from Adam Levine & co including the singles Payphone, One More Night, Daylight and. While too contrived to be a considered a lasting popular success, it’s a decent flavour of the month for fans of easy listening danceable pop. Maroon 5 - 'Payphone' featuring Wiz Khalifa. Listen to your favorite songs from Overexposed by Maroon 5 Now. In fact, all of the songs on the album are easily accessible and instantly memorable: Overexposed is written well and will no doubt continue to do well commercially. Other standout tracks are the offbeat dance anthem One More Night, the strangely classy disco-flashback Doin’ Dirt, and the pulled-back, piano-driven Sad. Its lead single Payphone (featuring the rap-vocal talent of Wiz Khalifa) has already achieved huge success in the charts. Overexposed was released last month on A&M/Octone Records. At times the recording leans too heavily on the glossy sheen of its post-production, which may leave a bitter taste in the mouths of Maroon 5’s older fans, but this is the nature of their new direction in genre. The instrumentation blends funk-esque guitar tones, heavy synths and an array of digital layering considerably well, creating a smooth and polished recording which has received input from several notable producers (including pop-guru Max Martin). This coupled with sufficiently simple and melodically catchy choruses will ensure these songs linger both on the charts and in the heads of listeners.


A few well-placed curse words within charming (if slightly formulaic) lyrics give the album a sense of explicit maturity and separate it from other teenage-girl-pop efforts. Like their previous releases, this album is heavily studio-polished, but it’s also deliberately more digital in sound: they’re striving to be the next club-bangin’ supergroup, and it’s obvious they want to retain the wider fan-base achieved through the success of recent hit Moves Like Jagger.Īlthough this ambition somewhat painfully underlies the album, it makes for a pretty successful transition to full-pop mode.

Maroon 5’s fourth studio album Overexposed sees the band stray from their funk-rock orientated roots in favour of an unashamedly dance-pop style. Maroon 5 are set to release one of our most diverse and poppiest albums yet, according to frontman Adam Levine.The group’s fourth LP, Overexposed, will hit shelves on June 26th and offer.
