Top 10 American Idol contestant, Ramiele Malubay, is performing "If I Never See Your Face Again" as part of her set on the Idols Live Tour. The video below shows her performing the song on the tour's opening night in Glendale, Arizona on July 1.
What do you think - do you like her version or not?
Most M5 fans know that the band refuse to answer questions on where the name "Maroon 5" comes from, with Billy Joel being the only person who has been let in on the secret.
With that in mind, blog reader "Vedderista" has left a comment with a theory on the name's origin:
Maroon V comes from the Pearl Jam song Jeremy. The song describes Jeremy’s drawing as “Arms raised in a V, and the dead lay in pools of maroon below”.
So, if you look the whole picture (or you see it from a far distance) all you can see is maroon and a V which is Jeremy.
Maroon + V
I thought this was interesting since Adam and Jesse have both professed to be big Pearl Jam fans.
A video of Adam taking a break and playing frisbee before Maroon 5's concert in Singapore last March.
"I feel like Paris Hilton!" Adam Levine exclaimed while exiting Villa to a flurry of flashbulbs.
Indeed, the Maroon 5 frontman gave the camera-friendly heiress a run for her money last night. Not only did he flash the ubiquitous peace sign to the paps upon exiting the club, he also gave them a free (albeit unintentional) show.
Only, instead of flashing skin like Paris used to do, he displayed his vocal prowess: crooning karaoke on stage in earshot of the shutterbugs outside. We hear Hall and Oates was on his set list.
Source: E! Online
UPDATE: You can now stream the podcast below without having to download it. I've edited out the music and commercials so it's just the interview, which is definitely worth a listen.
Adam & James appeared on Capital FM's London radio show 'Desert Island Disco' on Friday night. During the show they both chose songs that had special memories for them. Listen below.
What was the very first record you can remember buying?
Adam: Eddie Grant - "Electric Avenue". It was so catchy, I wanted to just play it over and over again. The production's really interesting and he's just kind of a badass;
he's singing about violence and corruption and bad things, yet it's
a really kind of fun, danceable pop tune.
James: INXS, which is a great first cassette to buy. I had a paper route, so I'd listen to tapes in my Walkman while I was delivering papers.
Adam: James is really wholesome.
Your parents' choice?
James: Let me start off by saying I love my parents, but I learned nothing about music from them, they really had no interest in any sort of pop or rock music at all.
Adam: James, you should play something from the Mormon Tabernacle.
James: Literally that's what we listened to, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Johnny Mathis. There was this one weird chapter though when I was 13 and [it was] the only time my father became interested in any pop song or any pop artist. For a couple of weeks he would play Sheryl Crow's "All I Wanna Do Is Have Some Fun" on a continuous loop in the car, anywhere we went. It was really strange.
Guilty pleasure song?
Both: "Toxic" by Britney Spears.
James: I don't believe in guilty pleasures.
Adam: It's a great song. If you feel pleasure from something then you feel pleasure from it, if you feel guilty about it, then you're just an insecure person.
First night in a club, can you remember what song was playing?
James: I remember like the first era when we started to be able to get into clubs, and I remember "Crazy Like That" by Beyoncé, that was playing everywhere.
Adam: [You mean] "Crazy In Love"? You sound like my father, "I like that 'Crazy Like That!' "
James: I was in the club, I was distracted.
Floor-filler, the song that gets you on the dance floor?
Adam: Kanye - "Gold Digger". There's just something about that song, I literally feel like I have to get up and dance no matter what's happening.
James: I always like it when they play Daft Punk - "Around the World". That's always good.
Full list of songs:
"Thriller" - Michael Jackson
"Need You Tonight" - INXS
"Electric Avenue" - Eddie Grant
"All I Wanna Do" - Sheryl Crow
"Little of Your Time" - Maroon 5
"Toxic" - Britney Spears
"Crazy In Love" - Beyoncé
"Gold Digger" - Kanye West
"Around the World" - Daft Punk
"California Love" - 2Pac
James is featured on p84 of People's Hottest Bachelors issue.
Here's an excerpt from an interesting article on how bands are promoted on television from The Sunday Times (London) that mentions M5:
If you’ve never seen a band looking bored, you probably work for a living. In which case, you didn’t catch Maroon 5 on the ITV lunchtime chat show Loose Women the week before last, performing with the verve of pensioners en route to the post office.
These days, artists with an album to promote are often faced with a chilling choice — an early-morning appearance on GMTV, with that dreaded stopover on the sofa, or a performance on Paul O’Grady’s afternoon show, before a feature on dancing dogs.
“Persuading an artist to appear on these programmes can be a battle,” admits Steve Morton, who spent seven years as media director at Virgin Records before leaving to manage bands including the Hoosiers and the Automatic. “Every act wants to be on Later, alongside credible musicians, with an audience of genuine music fans. The problem starts when you sell more than 100,000 albums in Britain. To get bigger, you have to reach out to people who aren’t regular music-buyers — say, housewives who occasionally put an album in their trolley at Tesco. When the Hoosiers’ album went platinum, the only way we could reach a new audience was on shows like This Morning and Paul O’Grady. Luckily, the guys have a quirky sense of humour that works well on TV. That’s unusual. With most artists, you take one look at their face and know they desperately don’t want to be there.”
Another manager recalls hours spent last autumn trying to persuade his award-winning American rock band to do the UK chat-show circuit. “They were worried it would affect their credibility,” he says. “They were right, of course, but their album sales had hit a plateau. They were offered Loose Women or Alan Titchmarsh — try explaining to American rockers why they should play on a programme hosted by a genteel middle-aged gardener. They almost agreed to Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway. Then they discovered the band on the previous week had to dress up as elves. In the end, they did nothing and the album stopped selling.”
Read the full article at timesonline.co.uk
Thanks to Jenn for her photos of Maroon 5 performing on Good Morning America on Friday.
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We're not ashamed to admit that Good Morning America's Morning Concert Series is one of our summertime pastimes (it is arguably, by the way, less crowded than the Today
show performances) — or that today at 8:30 a.m. we made our way to
Bryant Park to witness Maroon 5, with their suntans, shades, and
shagga-rific hairstyles, serenade lucky fans and commuters. The band
opened with "If I Never See Your Face Again," joined not by Rihanna,
guest vocalist on the album, but the aroma of freshly cut grass
instead. Between songs Adam Levine's lucky makeup artist mopped the
sweat from his brow and retouched his face as he flashed the thumbs-up
to stagehands and joyous front-row tweens. Things, however, took a turn
for the odd as balloons of various shapes were released: stars, peace
signs — and crosses that made
us wonder whether someone was trying to tell us that God loves Maroon 5
and the squeaky-clean crowds they attract. (A television producer,
perhaps?) Between the crosses and Levine constantly throwing his thumbs
up, we were reminded of “Buddy Jesus” from Dogma. Our
musings, though, were interrupted by young girl's gleeful cry of "It's
the broken-smile song!," the opening bars of "She Will Be Loved," and a
massive crowd sing-along that was probably heard up in heaven. —Lauren Salazar
Source: nymag.com Photo: by Jenn
