Line #68 Music/Maroon5


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/maroon5_1709.png]]
2	->''This love has taken its toll on me\
3	She said goodbye too many times before\
4	And her heart is breaking in front of me\
5	I have no choice\
6	Cause I won't say goodbye anymore''
7	-->-- '''"This Love"'''
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9	[[http://maroon5.com Maroon 5]] is an American band from UsefulNotes/LosAngeles. Originally forming in 1994 as Kara's Flowers with lead vocalist and guitarist Creator/AdamLevine, keyboardist Jesse Carmichael, bass guitarist Mickey Madden, and drummer Ryan Dusick while all of them were still in high school, the band released one album on Creator/RepriseRecords under the moniker in 1997. Upon the arrival of guitarist James Valentine, the band rebranded themselves as Maroon 5.
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11	In 2002, Maroon 5 released their debut album, ''Songs About Jane''. However, it wasn't until a year later, when their [[BreakthroughHit breakout single]] "This Love" was released, that they were put on the map. Several other singles off the album, including "Harder to Breathe", "She Will Be Loved" and "Sunday Morning", became hits as well, helping the album reach major chart success and ultimately go quadruple platinum.
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13	In support of ''Songs About Jane'', Maroon 5 toured extensively throughout 2003–05, and released two live albums during that period. After the band won the UsefulNotes/GrammyAward for Best New Artist in 2005, Ryan Dusick left in September 2006, citing injuries sustained by constant touring; he was replaced by their current drummer, Matt Flynn.
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15	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 released shortly after.
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17	Their third studio album, ''Hands All Over'', was released in September 2010, launched by the hit single "Misery". In 2011, Adam Levine was named a coach on the American version of ''Series/TheVoice''. Capitalizing on the show's surprise success, Maroon 5 recorded the song "Moves Like [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Jagger]]" with Music/ChristinaAguilera, another inaugural ''Voice'' coach. The song became their second #1 single in their home country, and topped the chart for four non-consecutive weeks, becoming their biggest hit yet.
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19	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".
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21	Since debuting in 2002, the band has sold over 120 million records.
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23	!!Members (Founding members in '''bold''', current members in ''italic'')
24	* '''''Jesse Carmichael''''' - keyboards [[note]] in studio only since 2015 [[/note]], rhythm guitar, backing vocals (1994-2012, 2014-present)
25	* ''[[Music/PhantomPlanetBand 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)
26	* ''Matt Flynn'' - drums, percussion (2004-06 touring, 2006-present official)
27	* '''''Creator/AdamLevine''''' - lead vocals, lead [[note]] in Kara's Flowers [[/note]] and rhythm guitar (1994-present)
28	* '''Mickey Madden''' - bass (1994-2020)
29	* ''PJ Morton'' - keyboards, backing vocals (2010-12 touring, 2012-present official)
30	* ''James Valentine'' - lead guitar, backing vocals (2001-present)
31	* '''Ryan Dusick''' - drums, percussion, backing vocals (1994-2006)
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34	!!Discography:
35	!!! Studio albums:
36	* ''We Like Digging?'' (1995, as Kara's Flowers)
37	* ''The Fourth World'' (1997, as Kara's Flowers)
38	* ''Songs About Jane'' (2002)
39	* ''It Won't Be Soon Before Long'' (2007)
40	* ''Hands All Over'' (2010)
41	* ''Overexposed'' (2012)
42	* ''V'' (2014)
43	* ''Red Pill Blues'' (2017)
44	* ''JORDI'' (2021)
45	!!! Live albums:
46	* ''1.22.03.Acoustic'' (2003)
47	* ''Live - Friday the 13th'' (2005)
48	* ''Live from [=SoHo=]'' (2008)
49	* ''Live from Le Cabaret'' (2008)
50	!!! Compilations:
51	* ''The B-Side Collection'' [[note]] Consists of outtakes from ''It Won't Be Soon Before Long''[[/note]] (2007)
52	* ''[[RemixAlbum Call and Response: The Remixes]]'' (2008)
53	* ''[[GreatestHitsAlbum Singles]]'' (2015)
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55	!! Selected videography:
56	* "Music/HarderToBreathe"
57	* "Music/ThisLove"
58	* "Music/SheWillBeLoved"
59	* "Music/SundayMorning"
60	* "Music/IfINeverSeeYourFaceAgain"
61	* "Music/MakesMeWonder"
62	* "Music/WakeUpCall"
63	* "Music/WontGoHomeWithoutYou"
64	* "Music/GoodnightGoodnight"
65	* "Music/{{Misery}}"
66	* "Music/NeverGonnaLeaveThisBed"
67	* "Music/GiveALittleMore"
68	* "Music/RunAway"
69	* "Music/HandsAllOver"
70	* "Music/OutOfGoodbyes"
71	* "Music/MovesLikeJagger"
72	* "Music/{{Payphone}}"
73	* "Music/OneMoreNight"
74	* "Music/DayLight"
75	* "Music/LoveSomebody"
76	* "Music/{{Maps}}"
77	* "Music/Animals2014"
78	* "Music/{{Sugar}}"
79	* "Music/ThisSummersGonnaHurt"
80	* "Music/{{Feelings\|Maroon5Song}}"
81	* "Music/DontWannaKnow"
82	* "Music/Cold2017"
83	* "Music/WhatLoversDo"
84	* "Music/{{Wait}}"
85	* "Music/GirlsLikeYou"
86	* "Music/{{Memories}}"
87	* "Music/NobodysLove"
88	* "Music/BeautifulMistakes"
89	----
90	!! '''''She Will Be Troped''''':
91
92	* AWildRapperAppears:
93	** Music/WizKhalifa in "Payphone".
94	** Music/KendrickLamar in "Don't Wanna Know".
95	** Music/{{Future}} in "Cold".
96	** Music/CardiB in "Girls Like You".
97	** Meghan Thee Stallion in "Beautiful Mistakes".
98	* AllAbusersAreMale: In-Universe in "She Will Be Loved" where a woman is being abused by her husband.
99	* AffectionateParody: The music video for "Don't Wanna Know" is a parody of ''VideoGame/PokemonGo''.
100	* AntiLoveSong: A straight example in "If I Never See Your Face Again", but it's implied in the lyrics of most of ''Songs About Jane'', with maybe the exception of "Sweetest Goodbye" and "Tangled". "One More Night" is another example.
101	* ArtifactTitle: The band's name has become this as they now comprise of six members; P.J. Morton replaced Jesse Carmichael in 2012, but didn't leave when Carmichael returned to the band in 2014; touring guitarist Sam Farrar was promoted to official member in 2017, and bassist Mickey Madden left in 2020 after his arrest following an alleged domestic abuse incident.
102	* AsceticAesthetic: The "Makes Me Wonder" video, filmed with glowing neon lights and lavish sets at LAX.
103	* AudienceParticipationSong:
104	** Anybody could cover "This Love" and get an audience going.
105	** This was invoked to a lesser extent in some of the ''Hands All Over''-era songs.
106	* BaitAndSwitch: The music video for "She Will Be Loved" shows the daughter, whose youthful looks could indeed possibly pass her for eighteen years old, with Levine first. The line "Beauty queen of only eighteen" is sung. However, it's quickly revealed that the real LoveInterest of Levine's character is the mother, who is decidedly middle-aged.
107	* BettyAndVeronica:
108	** The music video for "She Will Be Loved" depicts the young male protagonist finding himself torn between his young girlfriend and her older, attractive (and abused) mother.
109	** In "Maps", Levine goes to a party with his girlfriend but gets drunk with his friends and accidentally kisses another girl when his girlfriend catches them and she runs out...Things only get worst from there.
110	* BeardOfSorrow: In the music video for "Memories" frontman Adam Levine sports one in honor of his late friend and manager Jordan Feldstein.
111	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished:
112	** Averted in the video for "Payphone". Adam starts out looking pretty good. By the end of the video, he's bleeding, dirty and looks exhausted.
113	** In the music video for "She Will Be Loved", Levine finds his distressed love interest (also the mother of his girlfriend) lying passed out on the floor after being beaten into an unconscious state by her deadbeat husband. And even with her hair a mess, her makeup running from crying and her lipstick smeared across her mouth, the mother is still beautiful. Cue the intense kissing scenes that follow...
114	%% ** Also in the video for "One More Night".
115	** And rather horrifically averted in "Maps". [[spoiler:The viewer get a lovely close up of her bloody face after she's hit by a car mid-way through the video. [[DownerEnding She doesn't get better.]]]]
116	* {{Bookends}}: The video for "One More Night" starts with a shot of two goldfish and ends with a shot of one goldfish.
117	%% * BreakupSong: "Through With You", "Not Coming Home", "Sweetest Goodbye" (of the bittersweet form), "Just A Feeling", "Makes Me Wonder", "How", and "This Summer's Gonna Hurt".
118	* BrokenSmile: Mentioned by name in the chorus of "She Will Be Loved."
119	* ButtMonkey: Adam becomes this in the "Misery" video where he suffers [[CosmicPlaything many pervasive injuries]].
120	%% * CarefulWithThatAxe: The "AAAAAOOOOUGH" in "Animals".
121	* 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.]]
122	* ConceptVideo: Many of their videos have plots.
123	** "She Will Be Loved": A man tries to save an old flame from her abusive husband.
124	** "Wake Up Call": [[RealTrailerFakeMovie A fake movie trailer]], starring the members of the band wrapped up in a murder conspiracy.
125	** "Maps": The dissolution of a couple's relationship, ending in the girlfriend's accidental death. [[BackToFront Story presented in reverse.]]
126	** "Animals": [[StalkerWithACrush A photographer stalking a woman and fantasizing about being with her.]]
127	** "One More Night": A boxer and his fiancée's relationship slowly deteriorates.
128	** "Cold": A man takes drugs at a party and hallucinates.
129	** "Payphone": A teller flees a bank robbery and is misidentified as one of the thieves.
130	* CoverVersion:
131	** ''Hands All Over:'' "[[{{Music/Queen}} Crazy Little Thing Called Love]]," "[[{{Music/JohnLennon}} Happy Christmas]]([[{{Music/YokoOno}} War Is Over]])"
132	** ''Overexposed:'' "[[{{Music/Prince}} Kiss]]" and "[[{{Music/AlGreen}} Let's Stay Together]]"
133	** ''V:'' "[[{{Music/MarcyPlayground}} Sex and Candy]]"
134	** ''Red Pill Blues:'' "Visions" [[note]]Dirty Heads intended to release it for an earlier album until the song caught the attention of Adam Levine.[[/note]]
135	** In addition, "This Love" is one of the most covered songs of the last 10 years.
136	* DeathByMusicVideo:
137	** In the Director's Cut version of "Wake Up Call", Adam is sentenced to the electric chair.
138	** In the "Misery" video, Adam's psychotic girlfriend repeatedly tries to kill him, but ends up killing the other band members in the process. Special mention goes to Matt, who gets blown up by a ''bazooka''.
139	* DestructiveRomance:
140	** "One More Night" is about one, but the guy can't help but come back to her and feel bad about it later.
141	** "This Love" has shades of this.
142	* DoubleEntendre: Needless to say Maroon 5 does this a lot.
143	** From "This Love":
144	-->''I tried my best to feed her appetite''
145	-->''Keep her comin' every night''
146	--> ''So hard to keep her satisfied''.
147	** Depending on your age, it could mean "coming around" or "coming" the other way.
148	* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: WordOfGod is that the relationship in "Misery" is not supposed to be a positive one. The video has Adam getting seven kinds of hell beat out of him by his ex, who then proceeds to repeatedly try to kill him. More than a few Website/YouTube commenters have pointed out that if the video was instead Adam beating seven kinds of hell out of his ex, the outcry would be enormous.
149	* DownerEnding:
150	** The video for "One More Night". Adam plays a boxer that wins a big fight but [[spoiler:comes home to see that his wife has left with his child]].
151	** The video for "Maps" ends with [[spoiler:Adam's girlfriend flat-lining after being hit by a car.]]
152	** 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]].
153	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: When they were Kara's Flowers, they were more of a PowerPop band. Their first album as Maroon 5, ''Songs About Jane'', has more R&B/soul influences on the sound. In fact, Website/ThatOtherWiki lists the genre as "blue-eyed soul". The demo versions of "Sunday Morning" and "Harder to Breathe" (released as part of the 10th anniversary of ''Songs About Jane'') are more obviously influenced by R&B/soul than the final product.
154	** As Kara's Flowers, their self-released debut (which dates back to 1995) was closer to {{Grunge}} of all genres.
155	* EpicRocking: The aforementioned "Kiss" lasts 7 minutes. "Closure" from ''Red Pill Blues'' takes this up to eleven, literally. "Untitled" from ''We Like Digging?'' (Kara's Flowers' first release) runs for almost ''13 minutes.''
156	%% * GodivaHair: The cover of ''Songs About Jane'' has this.
157	* GreatestHitsAlbum: ''Singles'', which still ignores "Sunday Morning".
158	* HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook: In the video for "Payphone", Adam and his coworker escape from the robbers by stealing one of their guns, threatening them with it and running like hell. The police mistake Adam for an accomplice since he was running out of a bank robbery in progress with a gun in one hand and an attractive woman in the other and he keeps running, steals a car and blows up a police car to escape... an occupied one. And it wouldn't have happened if everyone had just stopped to talk.
159	* ImmodestOrgasm: One interpretation of the lyrics "keep her coming every night" in Maroon 5's "This Love".
160	* IntercourseWithYou: ''Songs About Jane'' is this trope.
161	** "Hands All Over", "Kiwi", "Sunday Morning" and "Shiver", as well.
162	** "Moves Like Jagger" could be heard this way as well.
163	** "Lucky Strike" isn't subtle at all, as is "Sugar".
164	** "Animals" puts a disturbing twist on this trope.
165	* {{Irony}}: Wiz Khalifa's verse in "Payphone" is basically "I'm rich, you're not, I made it, you didn't, so fuck off, haters." When he raps it in the video... he doesn't exactly look it.
166	** 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.]]
167	* IWantSong: "Love Somebody" is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin about Adam wanting a specific lover]] in his life who meets his type.
168	%% * KubrickStare: Done by Adam several times in the video for "Makes Me Wonder."
169	%% * LonelyPianoPiece: "Sad" from ''Overexposed''.
170	* LongestSongGoesLast: "Closure," the longest Maroon 5 song in existence, [[{{Pun}} closes]] ''Red Pill Blues.''
171	* LoveMakesYouCrazy: ''Songs About Jane'' is proof this trope is true. WordOfGod is that the album was made and named mostly to get it out of their systems.
172	* LoveTriangle: In the music video for "She Will Be Loved", Adam is caught in a relationship with his {{Love Interest\|s}} and [[StacysMom her mother]], whose abusive husband rejected her and who needs somebody young to love and console her; over time, Adam is becoming [[MrsRobinson more interested in the mother]] rather than in the daughter.
173	* LyricalDissonance: A lot of their songs are catchy and stay with you, but little do most listeners pay attention to the fact that 99% of them are about breakups and domestic abuse.
174	** "Payphone" is super catchy, but it's pretty depressing once you start paying attention to the lyrics.
175	** "Misery"; if the title of the song itself wasn't obvious enough, the whole video even depicts Adam going through a bunch of physical mishaps.
176	* LyricsVideoMismatch:
177	** "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}} lyric video follows the lyrics very closely[[/note]].
178	** 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.
179	* MadeOfIron: Adam in the video for "Misery". He somehow survives a variety of fatal/permanently crippling situations whereas in reality, he'd be in a hospital after the first thirty seconds.
180	* ManOfAThousandVoices: While Adam's singing isn't that varied with Maroon 5, he [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCbfWGgp9qs mimics other voices]] [[https://youtu.be/9bVEKjdUxmI#50s perfectly]].
181	* MidVidSkit: There's one in the "Don't Wanna Know" video. The director asks Adam Levine to put on a Pharrell Williams-esque hat, and Levine refuses because it would make him look "silly". [[HypocriticalHumor He says this as he's still dressed as a Squirtle lookalike]].
182	* MoodWhiplash:
183	** "Not Coming Home" - "Through With You" - "Sweetest Goodbye" is of the angry song, angry song, sweet song variety.
184	** The video for "Misery" starts out horrifying, as Adam's crazy ex beats the crap out of him, and then gets hilarious as she goes after him with a fucking ''bazooka''.
185	* MrFanservice: Adam spends most of their videos either [[WalkingShirtlessScene shirtless]] or wearing something extremely tight.
186	** "This Love" - Adam is seen shirtless dressed only in a pair of small black boxer briefs as he rolls around in bed with his girlfriend
187	** "She Will Be Loved" as him shirtless in the swimming pool
188	** "Makes Me Wonder" features him being groped by various women at an aiport.
189	** "Moves Like Jagger" has him parading around shirtless.
190	** He's shirtless a lot in both "One More Night" and "Animals".
191	** "This Summer's Gonna Hurt" opens with him putting a ModestyTowel on, then taking it off as just as quickly exposing his bare ass for about 5 seconds.
192	** And aside from him, the other band members look like models as well.
193	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The viewpoint character of "Wake Up Call" apparently has one of these after he shoots the man his lover was sleeping with.
194	* NewSoundAlbum:
195	** ''It Won't Be Soon Before Long'' structure and music stands out between ''Hands All Over'' and ''Songs About Jane''.
196	** ''Overexposed'' and ''V'' subvert the band's SignatureStyle for straight pop music.
197	* ObsessionSong: "Shiver", "Can't Stop", "Harder To Breathe", "Little Of Your Time", "Stutter", "Give A Little More", "Secret", "Get Back in My Life" and some parts in "Animals".
198	* OrdinaryPeoplesMusicVideo: In the music video for "[[https://youtu.be/09R8_2nJtjg Sugar]]", the band crashes the receptions for real weddings and perform their song, showing the bride's and the other attendees' shocked reactions.
199	* PercussiveMaintenance: In the "Harder to Breathe" video, the lights, wall hangings, instruments, and band members flicker in and out until Adam Levine pounds the wall repeatedly in the bridge, after which everything stabilizes until the lights shut off at the end of the song.
200	* PerformanceVideo: "Sunday Morning" and "This Summer's Gonna Hurt".
201	* PermaStubble: Adam's most distinct feature aside from his tattoos.
202	* PrecisionFStrike: A lot of their otherwise clean songs abruptly use the F-bomb or some expletive, though most mainstream listeners don't notice since the lines are often redubbed or skipped over in the radio versions.
203	** "Not fit to fuckin' tread the ground that I've been walking on" from "Harder to Breathe".
204	** "And it really makes me wonder if I ever gave a fuck about you" from "Makes Me Wonder".
205	** Downplayed in "Moves like Jagger" with "I don't give a shit".
206	** "All those fairy tales are full of shit! One more fucking love song, I'll be sick!" from "Payphone". That's not even getting into Wiz Khalifa's verse...
207	** "This summer's gonna hurt like a motherfucker...fucker" from [[IntentionallyAwkwardTitle "This Summer's Gonna Hurt Like A Motherfucker."]]
208	** The music video for "Maps" starts with Adam saying "Emergency room! Where's the fuckin' emergency room?"
209	* ProtestSong: The rare non-{{Anvilicious}} one--"Makes Me Wonder", which originally started out as a simple BreakUpSong (and was started well before its eventual release and then shelved because Adam couldn't seem to make it work), but there were some lines that seemed to apply to the political climate [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror at the time]] so it was reworked into a song with two meanings, one about a failed relationship (as originally intended) and the other about "failure to understand or trust" the leadership of his country.
210	* RuleOfDrama: In the "Payphone" video, Adam's car waits for him to get out and walk about a metre away before exploding spectacularly. [[UnflinchingWalk Adam himself is somehow unharmed.]]
211	* SelfDeprecation: The title of the album ''Overexposed'' seems to be a playful jab at themselves for how much airtime their songs have gotten.
212	* ShoutOut:
213	** This lyric from "What Lovers Do":
214	---> ''[[{{Film/TheWizardOfOz}} Drop a house on me,]] do you love me or not?''
215	** 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}}.
216	** The video for "Maps" is a direct {{homage}} to the 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.
217	** In "Animals", the video starts with an intro based on the opening credits of ''Film/Se7en'', including a noise of the Kodak 35 camera.
218	%% * SillyLoveSongs: "Sweetest Goodbye", "Never Gonna Leave This Bed", "Sunday Morning", "Won't go home without you", "It was always you".
219	* SixthRanger: PJ Morton joined the band as a temporary replacement for Jesse Carmichael, who took a sabbatical. When Carmichael returned to the band, Morton remained as a permanent member, bringing this trope into full circle. Touring guitarist Sam Farrar would become an official member in 2017.
220	%% * SpecialGuest: Music/ChristinaAguilera in "Moves Like Jagger".
221	* StalkerWithACrush: "Animals", to frightening effect. It uses animals' tendency to prey on other animals as a metaphor for just '''how''' far Adam will go to get his lover back.
222	%% * StudioChatter: Before their cover of "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" on ''Hands All Over''.
223	%% * StuffBlowingUp: The video for "Payphone".
224	* VocalEvolution: Adam's voice has gotten a lot higher than it used to be. Compare "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV8NHsmVMPE Harder to Breathe]]" with "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09R8_2nJtjg Sugar]]", and you'll notice a very massive difference.
225	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The fate of the woman in the "Payphone" music video that escaped with Levine is never found out. Presumably, she was either arrested by the police or made it out OK.
226	* {{Yandere}}: The narrator of "Wake Up Call", who catches his lover in bed with another man and immediately resorts to shooting him dead.

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