Maroon 5 have got worse and worse every album they've released with remarkable consistency. Few bands have such a simple and obvious downward slide, and it seems to be because of Adam Levine's obsession with popularity. Every album Maroon 5 get less and less like a band and more like Adam Levine's solo career - as shown aptly by 'Don't wanna know'.
This is by far the limpest Adam Lev- er, I mean, Maroon 5 song yet. The tropical house instrumentation sounds like a stock beat and also like everything on the radio. There is no build-up, there is no variation and the chorus is extremely repetitive. Last time Kendrick Lamar and Adam Levine collaborated it was on 'YOLO' with The Lonely Island, a super-catchy song that I still adore to this day. On this song he gets under 20 seconds to spit 4 bars which are all a bit rubbish (At this point it's pretty evident Lamar is saving his best material for his more highly held-features.).
The positives of the song aren't really positives as much as they are correcting previous things that were wrong with the band. Levine's falsetto is thankfully toned down and the song isn't creepy and makes sense lyrically. If you need to fall asleep quickly just put this song on repeat. Also, the music video was outdated the day it was released.
2/10
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