{"id":3675,"date":"2021-06-30T13:49:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T18:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.streamapse.com\/?p=3675"},"modified":"2021-06-30T13:49:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T18:49:25","slug":"maroon-5-the-band-pays-tribute-to-their-late-manager-with-a-soulful-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=3675","title":{"rendered":"Maroon 5 – The Band Pays Tribute To Their Late Manager With A Soulful New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAt this point, we\u2019ve made it,\u201d Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine tells Apple Music. \u201cWe\u2019re not trying to do anything to make it any further, not trying to just make a buck. We\u2019re trying to do things to challenge ourselves, to move people in the right ways. We’re trying to make great music that stands the test of time.\u201d On their soulful seventh LP, the pop-rock giants pay tribute to longtime manager Jordan Feldstein, a childhood friend of Levine\u2019s who died suddenly in late 2017. JORDI feels like a work born of new perspective, its mood contemplative throughout\u2014whether Levine\u2019s expressing appreciation for a doomed romance (\u201cBeautiful Mistakes,\u201d featuring Megan Thee Stallion) or a deep connection (\u201cLost,\u201d the Pachelbel-indebted 2019 single \u201cMemories,\u201d also dedicated to Feldstein). \u201cLyrically,\u201d he says, \u201cthis one gets introspective and personal. It’s just the time we were making it\u2014it was a strange, very reflective time for everybody. And it seeped into the music, I think, in all the right ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

But also notable is the band\u2019s choice in collaborators here, from the pop-punk pedigree of blackbear (\u201cEcho\u201d) to the timeless charisma of Stevie Nicks (\u201cRemedy\u201d) to the Latin influence of Tainy and A\u00f1uel AA (\u201cButton\u201d) to haunting contributions from late rappers Juice WRLD (\u201cCan\u2019t Leave You Alone\u201d) and Nipsey Hussle (a YG-enriched remix of \u201cMemories\u201d). Feldstein had been a fan, Levine says, so every choice in feature had special meaning. \u201cHe was my partner, my guy,\u201d he adds. \u201cThere was no one else, it was just the two of us. His family is basically my family. I really didn’t want to have to talk about this all the time, but I also would have probably really regretted not naming the record after someone who was the most important figure in our band’s trajectory, life, career, everything. I miss him every single day of my life, and I’ll never fill that hole, ever.\u201d Here, Levine takes us inside a few of the album\u2019s key tracks.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeautiful Mistakes\u201d
\n\u201cWe were spending summertime in New York, and the wonderful and talented blackbear wanted to write a song with us. The hook he wrote\u2014this great chorus hook, and, I mean, the whole song is a hook\u2014I feel like that’s how you know you’ve got a good one, when the whole song’s a hook. When we were recording, I played it for Travis Barker and I was like, \u2018It kind of reminds me of an old Blink record.\u2019 But I’m going to call it Blink-hop, because it’s kind of got a Blink feel, and that kind of angstiness, but it also has a hip-hop thing going on. It\u2019s like this weird hybrid of different styles from my past.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cLost\u201d
\n\u201c\u2018Lost\u2019 is actually one of my favorites we’ve ever done. I think it just captures everything the band stands for, all in one song. Whether you liked us back then, whether you like us now, whether you’ll like us later, I think this is kind of a classic sound that we’ve always had. And the song, the lyrics actually were a great process and I worked a lot. They took a while, and that’s, to me, the most important contribution I think that I made to any record. Just sitting with them and really trying to make sure everybody understood what I was saying and not trying to shroud it too much in any metaphor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRemedy\u201d
\n\u201cStevie’s one of the all-time greatest. And I’ve always had a wonderful friendship with her. I love her so deeply. J Kash [songwriter Jacob Kasher] and I were talking and he’s like, \u2018What do you think about Stevie Nicks for this?\u2019 I didn’t even think twice, really, because the song definitely makes sense for her, but I had not thought of that angle. It always winds up being the best decision when it’s the right one. And with her, it’s like it was made for her.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cConvince Me Otherwise\u201d
\n\u201cGetting it right is all about feeling it out and really thinking of all the dream people you could imagine for this stuff. Like the way that it worked on \u2018Convince Me Otherwise\u2019: H.E.R. was perfect. Gabi [Wilson] is the greatest\u2014she\u2019s one of my favorite new artists. Every feature I listened to\u2014even with Nipsey and YG on \u2018Memories\u2019\u2014there was a meaningful thread attached to it, because of the things that had gone down and what the song was about. What it meant to me, what it would’ve meant to my manager to have them on that song because he was such a fan. Everything winds up working in the right way when you take the time to think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cButton\u201d
\n\u201cThat’s always been one of my favorite songs. We actually recorded it a couple years ago. It was a different song, but Tainy actually brought it back to life so much that it made it even more of a contender. We weren’t sure: The Anuel verse was incredible, but it needed that little umph. There was something it needed, and it never really had it, and Tainy is good at that. That was all him, and that was a great moment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cAt this point, we\u2019ve made it,\u201d Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine tells Apple Music. \u201cWe\u2019re not trying to do anything to make it any further, not trying to just make a buck. We\u2019re trying to do things to challenge ourselves, to move people in the right ways. We’re trying to make great music that stands […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[86,556,557,558,195,100],"class_list":["post-3675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conversations","tag-album","tag-manager","tag-maroon","tag-soulful","tag-their","tag-tribute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}