IF YOU believe the rumours, Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine has bedded half of Hollywood, but the love antics of Maroon 5's singer help the band profile.

 

As the world caught up with Maroon 5's music after the hit album Songs About Jane, the frontman began enjoying the spoils of success, among them a long list of “It'' girls he is reported to have seduced. Jessica Simpson, Natalie Portman, Kirsten Dunst and Lindsay Lohan are all said to have dated Levine.

 

The 28-year-old is acutely aware he has been painted as a player.

 

“I think I have a pretty good job,'' he says with a laugh. “But I'd prefer to be slightly more mysterious than the womanising weirdo they have turned me into.''

 

Levine's bandmates had some adjustment problems because their frontman was increasingly singled out for red-carpet attention.

 

But the suave singer insists the spotlight trained on him helps further band, and brand, recognition.

 

“Of course I am more recognised now and people are snapping more photos, but it adds to the band,'' he says. “A lot of the bands out there are faceless and I think it's good to have an identity.

 

“I don't really mind the extra attention; I don't seek it out but I think it's cool as long as I don't have to sacrifice too much privacy. Like everyone else, I get sick of reading about people bitching and moaning about it, then they go to Coffee Bean on Sunset Blvd, where photographers are going to be.''

 

Levine's adoption into rock's cool frontman club has indeed proved advantageous to the band's fortunes.

 

Mick Jagger name-checked Levine after Maroon 5 supported the Rolling Stones on their last tour.

Bruce Springsteen asked if he could bring his kids backstage to meet the band after they performed at a radio show.

 

And when they were touring to promote single Makes Me Wonder and second album It Won't Be Soon Before Long, Maroon 5 dropped everything to open for the Police when that band's reunion tour came to Miami in July.

 

It was the perfect meeting of musical minds, particularly considering Levine wrote his band's current single, Won't Go Home Without You, as a homage to Every Breath You Take.

Consequently, the band dropped it from their set that night.

 

“I wanted to write Every Breath You Take, but unfortunately it was already written,'' Levine says.

 

“At the time I thought I was being clever, latching on to the influence of the Police, because they weren't around and no one would recognise how close the two songs were.

 

“Then a month after our album is finished, the Police announce their reunion tour and burst our bubble completely.

 

“We couldn't do it at that show. It wasn't a matter of worrying about what they would think, it was a matter of the crowd's reaction. It's best to leave the Police songs to the Police at their gigs.''

 

Fusing the rock chops of the Police with the pop sensibilities of Prince put Maroon 5 out on a pop limb, which is probably another reason it took radio and everyone else two years to embrace Songs About Jane.

 

Maroon 5 suffered no such delay with the songs from It Won't Be Soon Before Long.

 

Taking them to the live arena has proven even easier.

 

“People respond to hooks. We are a band who can play, really play, and you have to strike a balance between playing something exactly the same as it is on the album and spicing something up to keep it exciting for you as a player,'' Levine says.

 

“The question you have to answer about performing a concert is whether you are doing it for yourself or for the fans. The fans are the ones buying the tickets.''

 

And the critics are the ones who aren't. Levine and Maroon 5 have tolerated the level of venom directed at them by reviewers.

 

The band don't need great reviews to sell albums, but Levine is keen to change the critics' minds and reckons album No.3 will do the trick.

 

“I knew this album would have hits on it and would succeed. I don't know if it's our best album yet, but I think our third album is going to be the one,'' he says.

 

“Oh yes, we are very hungry, and the only people we have left to convince are the people who decided they weren't going to like us from the very beginning.

 

“We were dismissed and treated like garbage, so hopefully by the third album they'll put down their guns.''

 

Source: heraldsun.com.au

 

 

Can't wait for the third album :yahoo: :yahoo:

I think IWBSBL should have proven that they are talented. ;) I can't wait for the third album, either. :dance:

As Adam described it, it really must be SOMETHING :yahoo:

I hope there is a song that grabs me like Makes Me Wonder does..and perhaps a nice, slower song like Secret..

I hope there is one like Kiwi :heehee: I just love it :heehee:

Kiwi is :naughty: :lol:

I know :heehee:

I wonder why they called it Kiwi.

Because of the juices :heehee:

:heehee: There are other fruits that make juice, too.

Maybe this one they reeeeeeeally like :kink:

Sweeet orange doesn't really fit. :lol:

No, it doesn't :rofl: Kiwi is the best :w00t:

Kiwi tastes good when it's on the well ripened side.