Battula Narendra
Can you believe it's been a whole decade since the world was exposed to the particular falsetto stylings of "She Will Be Loved"? Whether you liked them or loathed them, you couldn't help but sing along with them, as Adam Levine and co certainly knew their way around a catchy hook. Four albums later, a guest swinging chair on The Voice, international number one "Moves Like Jagger", and now we're on to number "V", which the band themselves have stated is ‘less hits-drunk' than their previous efforts. Which is kind of another way of saying that despite working with some of the biggest hit producers on the planet, their new album is kind of crap. Opening number "Maps" leads the charge for just how watered down and generic the entire project sounds, written by OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder, and sounds exactly like the kind of song OneRepublic would put on their own album, but not release as a single. Maroon 5, on the other hand, released it as the first single from this album. Second single "Animals", produced by Shellback – the guy who provided them with that Jagger swag – is a good verse is search of a better chorus: ‘We're just like Animals, Animals, Animals-mals!' followed by a wolf howl isn't exactly award winning stuff