"Jordi" songs like "Lost" and "Beautiful Mistakes" were bland re-creations of their studio versions, but the six-piece band shook up the formula for almost all of the night's 20 songs. In terms of their singles, Maroon 5 are more machine than band, but that was a charmingly human moment Thursday.Īnd there were several pulse-quickening moments across a 95-minute set. Their latest full-length, June's "Jordi," has some of the worst reviews of the year.īut that's why Levine goofing up in Milwaukee was actually refreshing.
Led by Levine’s vanilla falsetto, it’s pleasing, largely innocuous pop best served on a chill Spotify playlist, or to fill the silence at a department store or coffee shop. That’s come at a cost, with the band pushing aside personality and embracing softer, more synthetic sounds over time to keep up with trends. Compared to practically every other band around, they’ve dominated, with at least one top five single on the Billboard Hot 100 on every album since its 2002 debut album - and sometimes as many as four. More: Here are all the Milwaukee venues, concerts that will require masks, proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test, including Summerfest I thought I'd be way out of the game at this point." We do not take that for granted for one second," Levine cheered. "It is the most surreal dream and the most amazing thing to be able to do this for this long, and to have audiences this full.
But instead of merely laughing it off and resetting, Levine got philosophical.Īt the sixth show of a rescheduled tour, Levine seemed to take great joy in being able to make a mistake on a stage again, and to do it in an amphitheater filled with thousands of people - not just in the wake of a concert-free pandemic, but also at this stage in Maroon 5's career. Hey, it happens, especially for one of the first shows coming out of a pandemic. And then he teased James Valentine, the only other musician on stage at the time, playing on acoustic guitar, that he was the last person in the room to recognize the mistake - "which is kind of a problem," Levine joked.
It was actually one of the best moments of the night.Īfter accidentally jumping ahead to the second verse, Levine was pleasantly baffled that the crowd singing along quickly made the illogical jump with him. Or as an alternative play everything an octave higher.It took nearly 20 years, but Adam Levine for the first time messed up Maroon 5's "She Will Be Loved" in concert, at the American Family Insurance Amphitheater in Milwaukee Thursday. It sounds best if you tune your guitar aįull step down, then transpose everything a full step down as well for the correctĬhord shapes. It's basically the same four chords repeated except for the end of the chorus.
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