History Music / Maroon5

** The video for "Maps" is a direct {{homage}} to the 2002 French film ''Film/{{Irreversible}}'', using the same story cues[[note]]A boyfriend and girlfriend attend a party; the boyfriend gets drunk and begins getting intimate with another woman; the girlfriend catches them and leaves the party upset, after which she becomes the victim of extreme violence and is brutally disfigured, with the boyfriend only made aware of this after the fact[[/note]] and [[BackToFront reverse narrative structure]] alongside similar camerawork and graphic violence.

* ChekhovsGun: The conversation at the beginning of the video for "Wake Up Call"- it's a seemingly innocent chat between Adam and his girlfriend, where she apologizes for lying to him and he admits that the whole thing was probably his fault anyway. [[spoiler:Then, later, we hear the rest of the conversation, where they agree to work together and start a cover-up of the murder Adam committed- that is, when he shot his girlfriend's lover.]]

* DeathByMusicVideo: In the Director's Cut version of "Wake Up Call", Adam is sentenced to the electric chair.

* LyricsVideoMismatch: "Payphone" is about a relationship that ended badly. The video starts with a bank robbery, then goes into a car chase. Epic, but unexpected[[note]]The {{Animesque}} lyrics video follows the lyrics very closely[[/note]].
** The video for "Wake Up Call" is a strange one- it resembles a trailer for a movie. This 'movie' starts out adhering to the video in that a guy shoots his girlfriend's lover, but the subsequent cover-up involves gamblers, strippers, boat chases and abductions.

--> ''[[{{Film/TheWizardOfOz}} Drop a house on me,]] do you love me or not?''
** Many fans have compared the plot of the music video for "She Will Be Loved" to ''Film/TheGraduate'', due to its mother-daughter love triangle.
** In "Animals", the video starts an intro was based on the opening credits of Seven (1995), with a noise of the Kodak 35 camera.

* {{Yandere}}: "Wake Up Call".
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--->'' She said "goodbye" too many times before''

!!! '''''She Will Be Troped''''':

* ''Sam Farrar'' - bass guitar [[note]] officially took over from Mickey in 2020 [[/note]], keyboards, synthesizers, sampler, rhythm guitar, percussion, backing vocals (2012-16 touring, 2016-present official)

-->--'''"This Love"'''

After a five-year gap, Maroon 5's second studio album, ''It Won't Be Soon Before Long'', was released in May 2007. Its lead single "Makes Me Wonder" became the band's first number-one single in America, and subsequent singles "Wake Up Call" and "Won't Go Home Without You" were released to decent success. Additionally, a compilation of previously unreleased songs, ''The B-Side Collection'', and a remix album, ''Call and Response'', were also released shortly after.

The albums that the band released during the rest of the [=2010s=] and the [=2020s=] (from ''Overexposed'' onward) signified a gradual stylistic shift away from the band's rock roots, leaning into R&B and pop with more electronic production and focusing heavily on other producers and writers. While this has come at the cost of [[BrokenBase increasingly mixed reception]] from critics and listeners alike, it has produced some of the band's biggest commercial successes and most popular singles (including "Payphone", "Maps", "Animals", "Don't Wanna Know" and "Girls Like You").

* ChekhovsGun: The conversation at the beginning of the video for "Wake Up Call"- it's a seemingly innocent chat between Adam and his girlfriend, where she apologizes for lying to him and he admits that the whole thing was probably his fault anyway. [[spoiler: Then, later, we hear the rest of the conversation, where they agree to work together and start a cover-up of the murder Adam committed- that is, when he shot his girlfriend's lover.]]

** The video for "Maps" ends with [[spoiler: Adam's girlfriend flat-lining after being hit by a car.]]
** The ending for "Won't Go Home Without You" shows Levine looking to reconcile with his girlfriend, [[spoiler: only to find out she's already moved on and seeing another guy on a dinner date]].

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** And this is right after [[spoiler: Adam steals his car; his final appearance in the video is him watching his car get returned, only for it to blow up. He's left stranded in the same slummy-looking part of town Adam's stuck in.]]

The albums that the band released during the rest of the [=2010s=] and the [=2020s=] (''Overexposed'', ''V'', ''Red Pill Blues'', ''JORDI'') signified a gradual stylistic shift away from the band's rock roots, leaning into R&B and pop with more electronic production and focusing heavily on other producers and writers. While this has come at the cost of [[BrokenBase increasingly mixed reception]] from critics and listeners alike, it has produced some of the band's biggest commercial successes and most popular singles (including "Payphone", "Maps", "Animals", "Don't Wanna Know" and "Girls Like You").