But Maroon 5's latest single, "Payphone," hit it home for me. I get it now, Adam Levine has a thing for the past. With kaleidoscopic stage lights, LCD screens and starship-captain seats, the nostalgic theme comes off as unnatural.
We don't really hear Maroon 5's signature funk guitar chord in latest single "Payphone. The ounce of contrast that works for "Payphone" is Wiz Khalifa's contemporary verses about luxuries like push-button ignition on cars and switching the number on his assumed cell phone. We also get a wink at The Voice hidden behind a basketball allegory "Had a really good game, but you missed your last shot. With "Payphone," Maroon 5 ends up sounding like the gloomy counterpart to Train.
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I support. Support the independent voice of Dallas and help keep the future of Dallas Observer free. We tweaked it more. When we write songs, the lyrics will be nonsense with the melody at the beginning. We sat on it for a month or so, and it all came together. So I made the beat really quickly. I want to catch you off guard.
It was too good to pass up. The British Phonographic Industry certified it Platinum. In South Korea, the song sold over 2. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
On its 18th week in the top ten, "Payphone" dropped to number seven on the Billboard Hot , making it the first time the song was not a part of the top five.
It also spent its first nineteen weeks in the top ten. Over 5 million copies of the song had been sold in the United States by March , and as of June , it has sold 5,, copies in the US. On the Canadian Hot chart, the song debuted at number 2, for the issue dated May 5, The following week, the song fell to number 3, where it remained for a further week. The following week, the song climbed to number 2 and on the chart issue dated June 2, , the song topped the Canadian charts.
For the following seven weeks, the song remained at the top, spending a total of eight weeks at the top. It remained at the top of the chart for two non-consecutive weeks and became both Maroon 5's and Wiz Khalifa's first chart-topping song in Britain.
It sold over , copies, which marks the third week in a row that the number one single broke the , barrier after Gary Barlow and Cheryl Cole. According to the Official Charts Company, the song sold , copies in the United Kingdom in , becoming Britain's ninth best-selling single of that year.
The clip is in an animated graphic novel style, drawn in panels. The clip shows the main character, presumably frontman Adam Levine, looking back on his relationship and heroically fighting monsters, rescuing old women from muggers, etc. Towards the end, Wiz Khalifa appears in a hoodie, acting as Levine's crime-fighting sidekick. Levine was spotted shooting the video, making a call from a Los Angeles phone booth, fleeing from the police with model Bregje Heinen and speeding away in a classic sports car.
It is revealed in the video for Levine's role is a bank worker, he said: "I work at a bank, i have no self-confidence. The video begins with a flashforward that starts with a beleaguered Levine torching his ride and dialing a telephone number at a payphone.
Another typical day at a Las Vegas seen from the decals on the police cars bank for Levine is shown next, which turns into chaos when some bandits enter and take charge some of the bank robbers are played by the other members of the band: guitarist James Valentine , drummer Matt Flynn , bassist Mickey Madden and keyboardist, previously a touring Maroon 5 member, PJ Morton — all of this happens while the song plays in the background.
Levine grabs a gun from one of the robbers and threatens to get rid of them. He and his female co-worker played by Dutch model Bregje Heinen escape, though Levine is shot in the arm, but when some cops mistake him for one of the robbers, Levine tells the female co-worker to hide in a car and steals a fake AC Cobra that belongs to Wiz Khalifa to get away from them. A car chase follows and when Levine is almost caught by the police, he steers the stolen convertible onto the wrong side of the road and causes a huge explosion, which destroys one of the police cars.
When he finally reaches his destination in Los Angeles, he passes by a place where Wiz Khalifa, the owner of the car, performed his rap earlier.
After Levine gets out of the convertible, it also explodes and he enters a booth, injured, with the titular payphone, probably to call for help it is also likely that he is calling his female co-worker — this connects to the beginning of the video. Amy Sciarretto of Pop Crush wrote that "This vid unfolds like a mini-movie, with lots of thrills, action and hot pursuit.
Bring on the summer blockbusters! News gave a positive review for the video, writing that "Adam Levine looks just as good as a buttoned-up bank employee as he does as a dirty, wounded fugitive trying to outrun the cops. Since Levine's character didn't rob the bank, why does he keep running from the cops?
And why does he leave the pretty lady behind?
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