Pop is a music genre that almost everyone loves. With its attack on the sheer sense of playful tones and subdued melodies, a pop artist or song for that matter, would always have a spot on someone’s playlist.
The very word ‘pop’ is a derived term from its original term popular, and this genre’s very term described how it’s being placed on the music food chain.
Pop music lean its foundation on using the simplest of terms, easy-to-remember lyrics, repeating choruses, melodic tunes and hooks here and there.
The instrumentations used for pop normally include guitars, drums, bass and vocals. These components, and the very definition of pop, is just what made Maroon 5 decide to conquer the industry, because they’re confident they got what it takes.
Long gone were the days when these boys huddle up at the nearest vacant space to play with their hand-me-down guitars and sing tunes from their idolized infamous bands.
The year was 1994 and Kara’s Flowers had envisioned themselves to be performing on world stage and dominate the international music scene.
After a couple of hits and misses, Adam and the gang had finally captured their one shot at stardom when Octone Records repackaged them as what we now know as Maroon 5.
Pop music had never been unkind to the band as they have managed to release chart-topping albums over the course of their career. Their rise to fame had been unstoppable.
Concerts all around the globe. Majority of their nineteen released singles dominated the radio waves. Numerous awards bagged here and there.
They gave a new meaning to boy bands— sultry and rough all at the same time. Maroon 5 had been an indispensable act on the international music industry, always coming back with a new wave of craze album after album after album.
The latest album, V, released August 2014 under Interscope had pretty much garnering the success it well deserved. Debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 and selling a whopping 164,000 on its first week, this album is a testament that the band never gets old.
This latest genius from Maroon 5 focused mainly on electro-pop rock genre and easy listening music. Levine had obviously put so much heart on this album that he almost co-written all of the 11 tracks recorded. Sia Furler, the talented singer-songwriter who performed songs Chandelier and Titanium also co-written the song “My Heart is Open”.
Maroon 5 with members Adam Levine (vocals), Jesse Carmichael (keyboards), Mickey Vadden (bass guitar), James Valentine (lead guitar) and Matt Flynn (drums) had all been domesticated names after their unexpected rise to fame.
The band released a total of five studio albums, all well regarded as relevant pieces in the history of pop. Songs About Jane (2002) had sold nearly 5 million copies and paved the way for the bands’ huge recognition.
The success of the songs She Will Be Loved, This Love and Harder to Breathe had been indelible to almost everyone and sealed Maroon 5’s capability of creating a craze through music.
Following the five-million streak of album sales is “It Won’t Be Soon before Long” which was released on 2007. This album had garnered a favorable response worldwide because of its attempt to try something new by doing songs that tackled on infidelity, moving on and trying to keep a dying love alive.
Allmusic rated this album with a 4.5 star out of 5 rating, adding that the album’s production is immaculately done and achieved.
The next albums Hands All Over (2010) and Overexposed (2012) had both mixed reviews because of the albums’ recycled music from the first two, successful ones.
Hands All Over, the least selling album, garnered a total of one million sales. Overexposed which harnessed an average of 54 over a 100 rating by Metacritic, and denoted that the band’s try on discovering new musical techniques and ideas had been unsuccessful and flawed.
Thirteen years after Maroon 5’s entrance to pop music, the group had been undeniably one of the longest boy bands to have existed in recent memory.
After five solid and well-known albums, Maroon 5 have been recipients of various award giving bodies for music.
They have three Grammy’s stashed on their belts for Best New Artist (2005), Best Pop Performance By a Duo or Group with Vocal for two years — This Love in 2005 and Makes Me Wonder on 2008.
People Choice Awards had given Maroon 5 three award for Favorite Band on 2012, 2013 and 2015. World Music Awards have chosen them last 2004 as the World’s Best New Group.
With the band’s palpable intentions on creating more music, Maroon 5 is still a band to watch out for after all these years. The band’s ceaseless attempts to innovate and yet leaving traces of the old ‘them’ is one of the many reasons why they were critically acclaimed every time they had a bomb to drop.
The end is nigh they say, but its best for us to do some head-bopping and finger drumming for now while Maroon 5 tirelessly plays.
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