Maroon 5, why are they so hated?

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

I listen to all genres of music (yes including country, jazz, rap, ska, and that one you hate.) but i can't for life of me understand the hate for Maroon 5, I liked Sunday Morning.

So this is a question for the ones that hate them, why?

And if you describe it as derivative, please provide examples.

 

[eDove]

They started off pretty all right — the album/era you're referring to is full of bops — but they slowly devolved into the "Adam Levine band." The Red Hot Chili Peppers influence is gone, as is any notion that it their music is a group effort. Just try listening to their new stuff. It's boring as hell.

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

They started off pretty all right — the album/era you're referring to is full of bops — but they slowly devolved into the "Adam Levine band." The Red Hot Chili Peppers influence is gone, as is any notion that it their music is a group effort. Just try listening to their new stuff. It's boring as hell.

I mean people were still calling them shitty back then, there's even a family guy joke about it.

 

[Dwarf Lord]

When the main thing people hear about a band isn't how good their music is but instead how much moms in their 40's are wanting to desperately fuck the singer then you have a marketing double edged sword.

You're going to attract trashy wine moms while repelling nearly everyone else and becoming a bit of a mockery in the process.

 

[OrionBalls]

They were generic sounding fabricated pop rock. No one actively hated them, but they were just kind of like everything else. They remind me of Avril Lavigne in the way that it felt plastic and not wholly there.

 

[Irregardless]

They started off pretty all right — the album/era you're referring to is full of bops — but they slowly devolved into the "Adam Levine band." The Red Hot Chili Peppers influence is gone, as is any notion that it their music is a group effort. Just try listening to their new stuff. It's boring as hell.

I came here to say the same thing so I'll add, they've been main stream for a while now, with the albums/songs mentioned being played on the radio since the mid 2000's. I think that a lot of people, myself included, just don't like the current era of music, which is where they currently find themselves. This, along with Maroon 5, basically just becoming the Adam Levine band.

 

[Chad Holdenford]

They're overplayed since the very first album. You couldn't go to a local shopping mall or listen to a random AOR radio without bumping into This Love or She Will Be Loved almost every time.

Then their idea of sound development is to become the very definition of aural slop, complete with "special guests" eating up a quarter of a song that was already shit to begin with. Not content with making pap smear pop bullshit, they insert some nigger rapping something that has next to nothing to do with the song's theme.

And yes, there is also the fact that Adam Levine is a pompous self-absorbed faggot in pretty much every sense of the phrase.

 

[Regio Consiglio]

Girls like you is legit one of the most annoying things I've ever heard

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

So this is a question for the ones that hate them, why?

"I HAVE A GAY PHONE TRYNA TO NANANA SOMETHING SOMETHING, WHERE HAS THE TIME GONE!!"

Fucking, really? You wonder why people hate this band? Payphone is the most faggoty annoying song I've ever heard next to Wonderwall. And yet it's one of the most overplayed songs on radio, stores, clubs, Spotify, etc. etc. Despite it being legit auto tuned ear rape. The problems with Maroon 5 begin and end with Adam. The big reason is as stated above, he attracts 40 year old wine moms. I'm sorry to our female Kiwi Wine Moms, but to young people-Wine Moms are the opposite of cool. As far as marketing for a band goes, Wine Moms are a fucking death sentence for popularity.

The big problem, at least IMHO begins and ends with Adam's voice. When I was a kid, I honestly believed Adam was the most auto tuned singer I've ever heard. His voice unironically has this mechanical synthy tone to it that just gives me a "This is fake" feeling. It doesn't help that it sounded like extraordinarily bad and cheap autotune. So I formed my opinions of Maroon 5 believing they were the most auto tuned generic studio pop garbage of the time. However, I realized over time that no, Adam just genuinely sounds that way with his natural voice. His natural singing voice just sounds like autotune synth crap. How he got famous is beyond me. I think the studio chose them solely to save money on autotuning because his voice just naturally did it for them.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

I can't stand their faggot singer ever since they started.

 

[Jarl Varg]

They just fucking suck, nuff said.

 

[Magicicada_septendecula]

They don't really introduce anything all that original and their music was everywhere to the point many people got sick of it. Furthermore, their lead singer is a douche nozzle whose tattoos make him look like a Chipotle bag.

 

[DoomsdayElite]

Because they're garbage and Adam Levine is a faggot of monumental proportions.

 

[Shroom King]

I didn't know what songs they played until I just went on youtube.

Their song with the most views (some Cardi B duet) I never heard before.
I heard songs #2 and #3 (based on youtube views) I guess while working out in a gym or something, or the mall.

I just never heard them enough times to get sick of them.

 

[KittyGremlin]

I don't get it either, it's a perfectly fine color. Maybe a little hard to see on this background.

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[I'm Retarded?]

I can't speak for others, but I personally have always found Maroon 5 to be repulsively plastic. like every other mainstream band that gets shoved down your throat, they're an overproduced, overmarketed, overhyped mediocre pop band. maybe at one point they had some soul, but if you look at their song credits, you can see that as they move into mainstream popularity, their "hit singles" are increasingly written and produced by record company stooges rather than the band itself. every time I hear Moves Like Jagger, I want to kick Adam Levine in his stupid cunt.

 

[Scout Trooper]

i can't for life of me understand the hate for Maroon 5, I liked Sunday Morning.

Songs About Jane felt extremely authentic. For me personally, it has some really positive memories and events associated with it so I don't think I could ever "hate" Maroon 5.

I suspect a certain amount of it is the automatic reaction people have to anything popular, which I completely understand and is probably justified due to overplaying, etc. Once you dislike it, having it continually shoved in your face probably is only going to make you hate it more.

A lot of what they've done since Songs About Jane seems lackluster. I haven't followed any of the dynamics of the band itself but I suspect others are correct that Adam Levine's ego has caused the band's work to decline in terms of musical art and science.

 

[Tablet County]

They suck. It's not that hard.

 

[HyperboreanRightsActivist]

I don't like pop. Simple as

 

[Dysnomia]

They're mid at best. I won't cover my ears when they come on the Muzak. But that doesn't mean I like it.