March 27, 2012

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Maroon 5 have been hard at work on a new album, and now we know some details about the project. The band has announced that the disc will be called Overexposed, and it'll hit stores June 26.

The ten-song disc, which Adam Levine calls "one of our most diverse and poppiest albums yet," is the group's follow-up to 2010's Hands All Over. It'll be the first release since the band's career was revived by Adam's stint on The Voice, and the subsequent release of "Moves Like Jagger."

Guitarist James Valentine said in a statement, "'Moves Like Jagger was the first time we ever worked with an outside writer, so we decided to try it some more on this record...We wanted to make something that sounded contemporary with the elements of a lot of early eras of pop music. This is our most 'pop' record ever and we weren’t shy about really going for it."

Producers on the project include Max Martin, Benny Blanco and Ryan Tedder, all of whom have crafted numerous pop hits for dozens of artists over the years. Even rapper Wiz Khalifa appears on one track, titled "Payphone."

It's worth noting that Maroon 5 keyboard player Jesse Carmichael won't appear on this album; he's taking a temporary break from the band to "pursue more full-time studies in music and the healing arts," according to the band's Twitter feed.

OVEREXPOSED - an appropriate title for this group

If that new album is just 10 different versions of "Moves Like Jagger" then I'll pass.

[Edited 3/27/12 9:08am]

I like a few songs by them but I never bought any of their albums...yet.

I'll wait and check out this new one.

The best review I ever read of Maroon 5's work was something like, "This album is exactly the same as the last 3 albums. But if you find something that works, why change?"

I've seen them twice in concert. The first time they were great. The second time I could not tell you if they played the same songs as the first time or not. They all sounded the same.

The thing that got me was that Adam Levine literally strapped on a different guitar for every song, and then never played more than one or two bars at the end of the song with it.

It got to be a joke among us, LOL.

RodeoSchro said:

The best review I ever read of Maroon 5's work was something like, "This album is exactly the same as the last 3 albums. But if you find something that works, why change?"

I've seen them twice in concert. The first time they were great. The second time I could not tell you if they played the same songs as the first time or not. They all sounded the same.

The thing that got me was that Adam Levine literally strapped on a different guitar for every song, and then never played more than one or two bars at the end of the song with it.

It got to be a joke among us, LOL.

RodeoSchro said:

The thing that got me was that Adam Levine literally strapped on a different guitar for every song, and then never played more than one or two bars at the end of the song with it.

In keeping with that theme, did he play the same make of the guitars?

When did they add a brother to the group?

Is that Benny Blanco (from the Bronx)? What has he produced?

Not excited about Wiz. (Womp Womp Wooomp) Call me Debbie Downer.

[Edited 3/27/12 11:38am]

Timmy84 said:

When did they add a brother to the group?

The brother, PJ Morton, began touring with the band in 2010, contributing background vocals and keys. The band's regular keyboardist, Jesse Carmichael, took an undetermined leave of absence for "spiritual reasons".

Identity said:

Timmy84 said:

When did they add a brother to the group?

The brother, PJ Morton, began touring with the band in 2010, contributing background vocals and keys. The band's regular keyboardist, Jesse Carmichael, took an undetermined leave of absence for "spiritual reasons".

Hmm...

Identity said:

Timmy84 said:

When did they add a brother to the group?

The brother, PJ Morton, began touring with the band in 2010, contributing background vocals and keys. The band's regular keyboardist, Jesse Carmichael, took an undetermined leave of absence for "spiritual reasons".

Is that the same PJ Morton from the gospel world? The son of Bishop Paul Morton?

Yep, that's him. Here's a live video performance...

Get cho money boy! He's been grinding for a minute.

Musicslave said:

Is that Benny Blanco (from the Bronx)? What has he produced?

Not excited about Wiz. (Womp Womp Wooomp) Call me Debbie Downer.

[Edited 3/27/12 11:38am]

Musicslave said:

Yep, that's him. Here's a live video performance...

Get cho money boy! He's been grinding for a minute.

And people wonder why REAL church folks go secular.

Timmy84 said:

When did they add a brother to the group?

He's like the Winston Zeddemore of the group

missfee said:

If that new album is just 10 different versions of "Moves Like Jagger" then I'll pass.

[Edited 3/27/12 9:08am]

SoulAlive said:

I like a few songs by them but I never bought any of their albums...yet.

I'll wait and check out this new one.

I LOVE their first 2 albums. I think you would like their albums. They actually tell stories and have full concepts for projects.

Timmy84 said:

Musicslave said:

Yep, that's him. Here's a live video performance...

Get cho money boy! He's been grinding for a minute.

And people wonder why REAL church folks go secular.

IKR?! They ought to let him write some stuff for them. Here's another one from PJ featuring Tweet...

Same song live with Amber Bullock

Identity said:

RodeoSchro said:

The thing that got me was that Adam Levine literally strapped on a different guitar for every song, and then never played more than one or two bars at the end of the song with it.

In keeping with that theme, did he play the same make of the guitars?

LOL, I don't remember but I bet he did!

Musicslave said:

Timmy84 said:

And people wonder why REAL church folks go secular.

IKR?! They ought to let him write some stuff for them. Here's another one from PJ featuring Tweet...

Same song live with Amber Bullock

Yeah. Them guys need some fine tuning especially Adam...

daPrettyman said:

AlexdeParis said:

daPrettyman said:

I LOVE their first 2 albums. I think you would like their albums. They actually tell stories and have full concepts for projects.

I like all 3 albums. What I don't really like is "Moves Like Jagger"... [Edited 3/28/12 2:56am]

Me either. I think it's a catchy pop tune, but it does nothing for me.

Album cover.

I Hate this band

I understand osme people dig them, but they have annoyed me since they came out. When they first came out, people in my school where like there alternative artsy rock... and now there being played in gay dance clubs

So from rock to this dance crap they do now. They have sucked all along the way to me

IIAGY said:

Album cover.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

Jagger is the worst on that album, one of the tracks sounds Prince inspired, the second one. I sampled it one day before deleting it.

I like the album cover

I guess they're copying Mika's covers now...

the colours of the album cover remind me of their Makes Me Wonder video, which to me is their best track to date. hope the new album is anywhere near as fun as that song.