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Priceless (Music)
Priceless is a song by American band Maroon 5 featuring Thai rapper and singer Lisa from BLACKPINK. It was released on May 2 2025, as the lead single from the band's upcoming eighth studio album Love is Like. It is the band's first single in almost two years since "Middle Ground", which was released on May 19, 2023.In the music video, Adam Levine and Lisa play a pair of hitmen who are assigned to kill each other. However, instead of taking each other out, they engage in a suspenseful game of chase that ends in an intimate slow dance. The visual depicts the complex, conflicted yet passionate dynamics of love.

Tropes associated with the song and music video:

  • Action Girl: LISA can hold her own during a fight with a combination of Swift kicks and punches as well as arming herself with various objects for weapons.
  • Almost Kiss: Adam Levine and LISA's characters come very close to kissing, only to get stopped by LISA.
  • A Wild Rapper Appears!: LISA raps her verses in the band's single.
  • Celebrity Cameo: Lisa from BLACKPINK stars in the music video as Adam Levine's Love Interest and the professional spy sent to assassinate him.
  • Combat Pragmatist: During the fight, Adam Levine and LISA's characters use various objects around them in the room as weapons, such as chairs and a vase.
  • Concept Video: The accompanying music video, shot on 35mm film and directed by Aerin Moreno, draws inspiration from Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
  • Contract on the Hitman: Both Adam Levine and LISA's characters discover that they're targeted to take each other out.
  • Contrived Coincidence: Adam Levine and LISA's characters happening upon to meet one another at the same restaurant. It's not just a coincidence. They're both spies sent to the location to take out the other's targets.
  • Dance Battler: Interestingly, the two spies continue to try outsmarting the other by a combination of fighting and tango dancing before settling into an slow dance.
  • Dance of Romance: Adam Levine and LISA's characters share a romantic slow dance after giving in to their feelings for one another.
  • Destructo-Nookie: The two spies destroy their surroundings by smashing objects on each other before embracing.
  • Distracted by the Sexy: Adam Levine's character gets repeatedly distracted by LISA's beauty, unaware that she's his next target and she's trying to kill him.
  • Fanservice: The fight scenes between Adam Levine and LISA's characters are ripe with sexual tension.
  • Femme Fatale: LISA's character uses her looks and her charm to try to lure in Adam Levine's character so she could kill him.
  • Held Gaze: Adam Levine and LISA's characters maintain a long lingering gaze at one another during their embrace.
  • In Love with the Mark: Adam Levine and LISA's characters fall for one another before learning they're each other's targets for assassination. They eventually give in to their feelings after a lot of physical fighting.
  • Kiss-Kiss-Slap: Adam Levine and LISA's characters almost kiss, only for LISA to slap him across the face.
  • Love at First Sight: Adam Levine and LISA's characters instantly become smitten with one another upon a chance encounter at a restaurant.
  • Made of Iron: Both characters endure hits from physical combat and broken objects as weapons but barely flinch.
  • Oh, Crap!: Adam Levine's character has the look on his face when he realizes his love interest LISA is his next target.
  • Professional Killer: Both main characters are professional spies sent to assassinate their next target.
  • Shout-Out: The spy themed music video is inspired by films Hitman and Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005).
  • Slap-Slap-Kiss: Both Adam Levine and LISA's characters try to kill one another, inflicting physical harm with various objects and physical combat before locking into an embrace and an Almost Kiss.

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