Maroon 5 crash a bunch of weddings in "Sugar"

Maroon 5 channel Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn circa 2005 in the goofy clip for their latest single, "Sugar," as they crash a handful of real wedding receptions and surprise random brides and grooms' nuptials with a little bit of their "Sugar" and an impromptu performances of their slinky funk-pop song, which is the third single taken off of the alt-rock outfit's most recent fifth album, "V."
Musically, "Sugar" combines the grooves of the funk and "synth-driven" of the 1980s music nostalgia feeling, and lyrically, Adam Levine sings the lines to his romantic interest. The idea of this love pop song's video was taken from the 2005 hit comedy, "Wedding Crashers," and the vibrantly cheerful and sweet clip was appropriately created with the film's director, David Dobkin. Heading out into the Los Angeles landscape with their guitars and suited up in slick-backed tuxes, the egomaniacs Maroon 5 try to crash as many weddings as possible and scream in ecstasy like the guests who went through just that.
What ensues is lots of confetti, cheers and tears. "It was an out of body experience. I had no idea I would be affected by the overwhelming reactions we received from the couples and guests. Being able to create an unforgettable experience for several people was the highlight of it all," frontman shares. At each venue, the film crew rushes in and sets up a massive white backdrop, as guests stare with puzzled curiosity. Once the band - in mid-performance - is revealed, the shocked and delighted faces of the newlyweds' reactions range from deer-in-headlights shock to hyperventilating glee. Check out the genuine, magical moments that the surprise created in "Sugar" video below.

Maroon 5 hunting down a women in "Animals"

Maroon 5's frontman Adam Levine is getting seriously creepy in his band's new music video for "Animals," the second single from the American pop rock band's fifth studio album "V," and it features the typically likeable Levine hunting down and stalking his real-life wife, Victoria's Secret Angel Behati Prinsloo after a chance encounter.
Over a shimmering bass line and thumping drums, this Shellback-produced catchy yet controversial (due to its lyrics) song finds Levine trying to 'prey' a woman he's really obsessed with, as he singing of hunting down her in order to have sex with her. "Don't deny the animal that comes alive when I'm inside you," he crudely croons. There is nothing that can stop him from accomplishing that goal.
The newly-premiered visual for "Animals" will definitely draw some controversy just like the lyrics of the song. And the director Samuel Bayer has exactly translated the story of the song into a cinematic music video, which kicks off with any random happening; Prinsloo walks into the butcher shop where Levin works, buys some sort of meat product and leaves. Nothing to write home about. Except, the short meeting is more than enough to obsess over for a bespectacled and bearded Levine, who spend the next four minutes hunting down Prinsloo like she's just another pig out for slaughter, and courts her until she falls for him.
Levine is effectively creepy as this stalker-type, taking dozens of photos of Prinsloo (even as she sleeps), following her to her apartment, bedroom and swinging on some old meat carcasses and smearing himself in blood. Just in case, you know, the stalking wasn't terrifying enough. Levine's insanity later leads him to the same club as Prinsloo, and she's understandably uninterested in him. The two end up in bed together anyway, making out totally naked at Levine's meat-cutting facility while getting poured in blood, Carrie-style. Look at the darker, creepier side of Levine the Butcher below.

Maroon 5 Suffers Tragic Loss in "Maps" Video

Maroon 5 is back on the map with a brand new music video on MTV for their catchy pop-rock song, "Maps," the lead single from Maroon 5's upcoming new fifth studio album "V," which is due September 2nd. It's been two years since a new Maroon 5 song has blasted out of our radios after releasing their hit album "Overexposed" in 2012. Although the teary new video may break our hearts a little more, "Maps" will have you falling back in love with the group in no time! "Maps" is an up-tempo pop/pop rock track, with a breezy guitar lick. It marks Maroon 5's departure from the funkier sound for which the band was originally known.
Lyrically, the song is about the search for love, particularly a love that has been lost and needs to be found. As Adam Levine singing about retaining hope for a relationship despite his girl abandoning him when he was going through a tough time. Levine told Ryan Seacrest the song is about not giving up on a relationship after its been derailed and getting it back on track. "People go through a lot of things and get stepped on and step on others and we all make mistakes," he explained. "It's kind of more about not giving up on something, even though maybe you should."
Not all roads lead to a happy ending despite carefully guided "Maps." Maroon 5 and its frontman had to learn this lesson the hard way in their new cinematic clip, which features select dialogue and sound effects over the actual single itself, features the tale of Levine gone astray, as he retraces his footsteps in a disastrous night that has a life changing (and deadly) side effect and ends in a hospital emergency room. The clip follows a backwards narrative format, beginning a bloody, battered woman in a hospital bed in critical condition, with Levine rushing desperately through the hospital to get to her, fighting off doctors and nurses on his path.
And once he starts retracing the night, it all gets that much darker. A series of flashbacks reveal that the woman is, obviously, no other than Levine's beloved. The duo started off the night getting ready for a soiree of sorts, happily picking out outfits for each other and cuddling. However, as the tequila and beer flows at the seedy house party, Levine's eye begins to wander and he finds the comfort in the arms (and lips) of another brunette babe, which his girlfriend sees from across the room. She leaves the party in a rush, with Levine in tow... but her night has a deadly consequence. The lesson learned?

Maroon 5 feeling so hollow in "Love Somebody"

Maroon 5 is back and unleashed the paint-drenched intimate new music video for their latest song "Love Somebody," the fourth single and one of the more emotional tracks from the American pop rock band's fourth platinum-selling newest studio album, "Overexposed." The band debuted the new song on Wednesday (May 20) night with a performance on NBC's The Voice, and now they set the bars high with their even more amazing and eye candy of a video for "Love Somebody."
Co-written by Levine, Nathaniel Motte of 3OH!3, Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic and producer Noel Zancanella (Demi Lovato, B.o.B.), "Love Somebody." is one of several "Overexposed" tracks that Levine wrote after his two year relationship with the Victoria's Secret model Anne Vyalitsyna ended. The frontman told The Sun: "We could never put out a Maroon 5 record without the love songs as that's why we connect so well with our fans. We have fun, yes, but we speak about things we've all been through at some time."
Consists of piano and guitar, "Love Somebody," is an alternative rock, talks about Levine "feeling so hollow" with a Sly Stone-meets-Eurythmics synth hook. The lyrical theme of the song is a plea for salvation on the dance floor or some other horizontal surface. It's a rare moment where the overhanging production tricks ease up just enough to make for an honest-to-God song with emotion and not just a laser scope aimed at the Billboard charts. It's one of Maroon 5's best yet. The song's video is highly visual, a feast for the eyes as you can watch band's Levine slather a liquid material all over his body, revealing every muscle, and we're still fanning ourselves from how hot the video is!
Directed by Rich Lee, the original, simple and visually stunning video uses the inverse of green screen technology and utilizes an effect that causes band member's body parts to show up as they are covered in a thick, paint-like substance. The very engaging and uncanny-valley-effect-inducing video starred the band performing in a black and blue-goop as signer Levine getting intimate hot, heavy and manages to make messy sexy with a fine lady, model Emily Ratajkowski, as they unveil their painted bodies by touching and caressing their own and each other's blank skin, full of paint naturally. Superb!

Maroon 5 debut "Daylight (Playing for Change)"

Last September, Maroon 5 reached out to fans to help film their music video for "Daylight." People from all over the world came together for what they came to call "The Daylight Project." The American pop rock band took things one step further now, and partnering with Playing for Change, a multimedia movement created to "inspire, connect, and ring peace to the world through music," the collective re-purpose Maroon 5's single "Daylight."
"Daylight," a soft rock ballad about realizing that someone has to move on from an old relationship, is the third single lifted off Maroon 5's latest fourth studio installment "Overexposed." The band's frontman Adam Levine once said of the music video, "As different as we all are, there are common themes that bring us together, inspire and show everyone what is important today. With this video, we'll present the world today and beyond, creating more than just a music video."
Filming several female singers throughout numerous locations around the world, the video for "Daylight (Playing For Change)" features Maroon 5 and Playing For Change musicians collaborating together to perform "Daylight" as a song around the world. All Playing For Change performers where recorded and filmed live outside and this musical journey takes us from the streets to the stage to the hearts of the people. Playing For Change is a movement uniting people everywhere through music.

The Levine-fronted band are seen performing live while mixing the female vocalists into the backing harmonies. Most of the scenes are packed with real-footage of musicians from singers, drummers, guitarists, didgeridoo players, tribal drummers and more, performing on the streets to support the project. It manages to blend many unique instruments unlikely found on any Maroon 5 record including an accordion, tribal drums and a didgeridoo. All profits raised from the release will go towards building music schools for children around the world.

Maroon 5 Illuminates Us All Through "Daylight"

Maroon 5 have dropped the soul-shatteringly sweet video project for their third "Overexposed" single "Daylight," and it's a doozy and isn't your typical band music video, because Maroon 5 asked their fans to contribute to its making resulting in a powerful nearly 10-minute-long motivational supercut of fan-submitted footage. The album title itself is further evidence that on this underwhelming record, the band are aiming to be a band whose music will be inescapable.
Co-written by frontman Adam Levine and Swedish hitmaker Max Martin, "Daylight" is a bittersweet tale of a lover who, for some reason, has to creep away in the morning. The slow-building, rousing anthem is about the difficulties of growing up and moving on. This uplifting is watery and uninteresting, a pop song walled in by clichéd optimistic meanderings and finds Maroon 5 in their soft rock wheelhouse, and show off their newfound melodic prowess, Levine's vocals has a Coldplay inspiration in the end of the chorus.
Lyrically, it's a simple song, with Levine singing that since his relationship is about to end, he wants to savor the last night with his special someone. Levine never explains exactly why he has to leave, but we can infer that trouble has been brewing for some time. "Daylight" doesn't blow us away immediately, but its endearingly bittersweet lyrics and catchy "whoa-oh" chants make this a song that will probably get better with each repeated listen.
While the song sends the message that you don't want to leave someone's side at the break of dawn, the Jonas Akerlund directed clip for "Daylight," like the title suggests, seeks to illuminate us all through song coupled with personal footage from these random fans and contributors from around the globe. Nowhere in it does it feature Levine and his band mates, aside from the audio track, but all from fans who sharing their own struggles, what's important to them, and expressing things they're thankful for and also what they hate. Fans singing along to the track, are the stars of this crowd-sourced clip.

Maroon 5 only stays with love "One More Night"

Maroon 5 have unleashed a music video in support of their latest single "One More Night." It follows frontman Adam Levine as a father of one who works a grueling schedule as a boxer. One night after a big fight which he won, he goes home with battered face only to find out that his family has left. The the catchy reggae-drenched tune is the lead-off track and second single from pop rock band's just-released dance-heavy new album, "Overexposed." Kicking off with a reggae-style guitar on "One More Night," the album starts on a subtle yet sharp note.
It is a pop song, with a reggae beat infused into the percussion, giving the song a more dancey feel. Lyrically, the song is built upon the idea of the quintessential push and pull between what the heart, mind and body want, which are usually opposing things. The song is erected on a thumped out beat, in addition to Levine's signature falsetto, where he tosses off lyrics about not getting along with (or being able to untangle himself from) his lady love, and hoping he only stays with her just 'one more night.'
"One More Night" is not a dance floor anthem, it's certainly a bouncy, reggae-flecked midtempo with a chorus that feels reassuringly familiar that's sure to inspire sing-alongs. "I do love the lyrics," Levine said of the song. "The metaphor that we spoke of earlier, a relationship between two people, sometimes when it's not going so well, it feels like a battle. Like a boxing match." Levine wins a big fight, but it no longer matters when he returns home and finds out that the people he loves dearly have left.
Things don't end too well for our hero, whose wife ends up leaving him, and their romance is not of the fairy-tale variety. But Levine’s still grateful Kelly showed up in the first place. The music video is directed by "Battleship" helmer Peter Berg. "Just go with It" babe-alicious actress Minka Kelly plays Levine's love interest. "I play a heartbreaker, I guess," she said in the clip. "I do very bad things... but necessary." To prepare for the fight scene, the frontman got a training he'll never forget. He said, "I got the guy who was training me. He hit me, and it hurt."

Maroon 5 Making A Call In "Payphone"

Maroon 5 pulled back the curtain on the brand new video for their record-breaking single "Payphone," a depressing song stuck in a sunny melody, gets the Michael Bay treatment in their explosive new video, which has no shortage of gunfire, car chases, explosions, plus plenty of frontman Adam Levine actually singing into a payphone. The track, features rapper Wiz Khalifa, is the lead single from their upcoming fourth studio album "Overexposed," set for release on June 26.
The mid-tempo pop ballad talks about a romance that is no more, how regretful the unlucky lady will be for walking away, and finds the 33-year-old frontman in a downbeat mood as he reminisces about a failed relationship, and Khalifa' verse is more direct than Levine's despondent lyrics - it explores the way a relationship used to be and the way they no longer are.
"Payphone" has a plodding, piano-heavy production with martial drumming and a dramatic chorus. It also features throbbing bass on the hook that gives the song the hint of a disco edge. It's a straight-ahead pop ditty that like everything else these days, seems to take a page from Bruno Mars' "Grenade" for its shiny, military-like precise beat that still manages to sound convincingly warm. It's melodic and catchy, and but not overly aggressive.
The Samuel Bayner-directed clip plays out as a flashback that starts with a beleaguered Levine in the middle of a bank robbery, as a bespectacled bank worker who saves a co-worker from bank robbers, torching his ride and dialing his lost love. We then get to see he manages to steal a gun, making a call from a Los Angeles phone booth, bust out of the bank with a foxy lady, and end up becoming a sought-after fugitive himself. Along the way he steals Khalifa's classic sports car and running from police. The clip is an enjoyable mini-blockbuster.

Maroon5 /Christina Aguilera 'Moves Like Jagger'

Grammy winners rock group Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera are taking viewers on a nostalgic romp through the '70s in their new video for "Moves Like Jagger," which debuted Tuesday, takes place at the historic L.A. Theatre and, as the song title suggests, features a lot of people trying to move like Rolling Stone rocker Mick Jagger. Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine eventually takes center stage to start singing wearing nothing but snug-fitting polyester pants and his colorful tattoos.
This electro-pop track with elements of rock and soul, is billed as "Maroon 5 featuring Aguilera," though the latter actually does very little, only coming in at the bridge after two minutes. The song's lyrics refer to the narrator's ability to impress a female with his dance moves, which he compares to those of legendary Rolling Stones rocker Mick Jagger. The song is bound to appeal to lot of people. The music video just increases the appeal, because whatever one thinks about Mick Jagger, the clip brings back many memories of the rock n roll icon.
Levine told MTV News why he likes to move like the veteran Stones' frontman: "I've been a student at the Jagger School of Interesting Movement for 17 years. I'm graduating next fall, with honors," he said. "[His moves are] a very carefully calculated, but slightly spastic, incredible rhythmic experience, in which all of your limbs and every bone in your body is moving at completely different times, and it's impossible to re-create. Nobody has moves like Jagger, that's kind of the point. That's why the song is so fun, it's fun to try."
The Jonas Åkerlund-directed clip opens with black-and-white footage of the theater, shots of work crews assembling lighting and equipment onstage and groups of extras getting into costume, warming up for a shoot. This is followed by classic footage of Jagger, during which a reporter asks the iconic Rolling Stones frontman how long he plans to make music. When Aguilera makes her brief appearance, she fits right into the retro feel with mascara-heavy lashes and a floppy hat. For Levine and his bandmates, the song and video are all about exposing a new generation to the rock legend.

Maroon 5 Premiered "Out Of Goodbyes" Video

Maroon 5 have recently premiered the music video for "Out of Goodbyes," the official fourth single taken from the Grammy Award-winning pop rock band's latest third studio album "Hands All Over," which is reminiscent of albums past, but encompasses a larger variety of genres this time around, and has been in stores since last September. "This album has a lot of different styles - a little Motown, a little country, a little straight ahead rock n' roll and pop music," lead singer Adam Levine explained. "It's everything we love all wrapped into one beautiful package."
The soulful, funk-rock-pop crooner and his band's countrified, heartbreaking collaboration with the Grammy-nominated and CMA award-winning country trio Lady Antebellum for "Out of Goodbyes," which is a nice country-ish ballad sweet, sad song came together in a single day in Switzerland. Keyboardist Jesse Carmichael told Rolling Stone: "We're excited for a lot of new people to hear our band through that song." A very nice song, and awesome collaboration between Maroon 5 and Lady Antebellum lead singer Hillary Scott.
It definitely sounds like a different kind of track than what Maroon 5 fans are used to, but it is a good track. "We are so happy with how it turned out," Levine told CBS News. "They did an incredible job. We wrote the song and her voice (Scott) was perfect for it and the band filled in the spaces in a beautiful way. It was a great collaboration." Although Maroon 5 shows a softer side with Lady Antebellum, Levine isn't any closer to figuring out what love is really all about.
Instead of featuring the Adam Levine-fronted band and the country music trio, the Travis Schneider-directed video takes its focus on a young woman and her wounded lover, played by Dwight Yoakam and model/actress Diora Baird. It seems that she causes him multiple wounds. She patiently takes care of him only to hurt him again once the wounds are cleaned and bandaged. The clip shows the woman cleaning a bloody wound and removing a bullet from the man's chest, after which she gets up to leave, but grabs her revolver and shoots him.

Maroon 5 Debut "Never Gonna Leave This Bed"

Getting out of bed in the morning can be hard, but what if Adam Levine is in bed with you? Leaving that bed would be impossible! American rock band Maroon 5 released their brand new video for "Never Gonna Leave This Bed" via JustJared and we don't mind seeing front man Levine rolling around between the sheets. Mutt Lange-produced single is an emotional rollercoaster ride, this explosive track "Never Gonna Leave This Bed" is the third official single from Maroon 5's third studio album "Hands All Over," a killer hybrid of rock, pop, funk and R&B.
Frontman Levine wrote this song after a "weekend bender." He told The Sun: "I was totally depleted and got home, picked up a guitar and started writing this song. It's my favorite on the record. It's the most honest. It reflects a desperate longing to have somebody in my life, which I didn't at the time." The driving guitar ballad with a sky-scraping chorus and Levine's heartfelt vocals, this tender track shows off the sensitive side of these pop-funk supremos. The song is going to be performed by the band during Super Bowl XLV pre-game festivities. Levine has a great job!
Featuring Levine's real-life girlfriend, Russian model Anne Vyalitsyna, it sees the frontman heat up and snuggling on bed with the Victoria's Secret model in various locations in Los Angeles while encased in a clear box, as passersby give them curious look. The rest of the band, while they don't get to snuggle up with a smokin’ hot blonde, get in on the action as they perform on an enclosed moving stage. Ever the exhibitionists, Levine and his lady even get driven around in a Plexiglass box as they cuddle up to one another.
In every video, Levine happens to be the protagonist making out with a sassy lady, such is the hard life of a frontman. The band also enlisted the help of fans, asking them to come out at the side of Ocean Avenue overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the Santa Monica Pier, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, and Roosevelt Hotel. "Thanks to everyone who showed up! You made the whole thing work," Levine tweeted earlier this month. "This video feels special. There's something really bold and exciting about it."

Maroon 5 Get Violent From Girlfriend In "Misery"

The Los Angeles-based alternative rock band, Maroon 5 have premiered the official video on MTV and VH1 for their new single "Misery," the first single from their upcoming third studio album, "Hands All Over," which was recorded in 2009 in Switzerland, and is scheduled to be released on September 21. The band's frontman suffers from various kind of violent plots in the freshly-released video and having to endure the attempts real-life girlfriend Anne Vyalitsyna made to kill him.
The new tune "Misery," was released last week and hits radio airwaves, is pretty classic Maroon 5 with a rubber-band funk bassline, swinging beat and has frontman Adam Levine's rich, conversational vocals riding on top. Levine crooning about the agony of a dwindling, uncommunicative relationship. Like a lot of Maroon 5 jams, "Misery" is a buoyant, poppy affair that has a dark underbelly. "Misery" is about the dire straits Levine finds himself in when a relationship peters out. The falsetto-pleading, yet upbeat, peppy and keyboard-popping track, features a melodic chorus similar-sounding to their 2004 hit, "This Love." The single was exactly the kind of up tempo, falsetto-filled single we've come to expect and its beat may lead you to forget what the lyrical content is about.
If the song sounds like sunshine, the video will apparently be a little more stormy. The Joseph Kahn-directed music video, is surprisingly focuses on violence instead of sex, with the leading man is getting kicked, bitten, pushed, ran over and thrown around by the leading lady who attempting to kill her lover. "I thought [the concept] was really amazing," Levine explained to MTV News, "because it kind of turns the whole idea of the sexual energy between two people- a guy and a girl, a music video, you've seen that a million times - that exists in this video, but it's turning it on its ass and having the girl be the more domineering one who's trying to kill me." This video really takes interest of thew watcher because the lyrics of the song go well with it but in a creative way.
Grammy Award-winning band are veterans in the industry after so many years of mega hits. The mix of polished pop/rock and neo-soul sex appeal made Maroon 5 one of the most popular bands of the 2000s. Maroon 5 aren't the first band to fuse R&B and rock, but they certainly are one of the most convincing. One can almost hear Stevie Wonder's beaded braids clattering in time to their deep, funky grooves. At best, the band conjures up latter-day Motown, complete with a shuddering organ and hyperbolic vocals; at worst, they sound like a stylized boy band, with all the attendant close harmonies and dramatic pauses. But despite these musical schisms, Maroon 5 are a thoroughly engaging outfit, thanks to throbbing bass lines, hooky songs, and lead singer Levin's swaggering delivery.