Maroon 5 gave us a taste of their anticipated new album this week. The track "Makes Me Wonder" is exactly what we have been waiting for from them. The track starts out very 70's disco funk, complete with chicka-chicka guitars, bongo drums and hand-claps. It then bursts in to 80's saw-buzz synth pop, and busts into Maroon 5's typical "We are long over but I am never EVER EVER going to get over it" lyrical style. It's catchy, it's dark, it's glam, it's Pop-rock paydirt. It even has a 'breakdown' for Pete's sake. We love a good breakdown.
It's too bad that because of this song, and I'm guessing many more, their album is going to get that little black-and-white "Parental Advisory" sticker that makes parents concerned and kids rush right out to buy it.
What's that you say? Maroon 5? The soulful band who proclaimed to teenage girls everywhere "I don't mind spending every day, out on your corner in the pouring rain"? Yep. They drop 4 F-bombs on us, in a ridiculous way:
And it really makes me wonder If I ever gave a f*ck about you
Ok, I understand you are trying to convey emotion, impart feeling, blah blah blah, but c'mon you mean to tell me there was no other way to say that? The very first thing that's going to happen when the song gets airplay is that word will be bleeped, or they will release another version substituting 'damn' or something more benign like that. In every TV performance, every live-in-radio-studio performance, they will have to change that line.
So why put it in the first place? Sales. More than likely, your average fan is (sadly) going to be drawn to the bad-boy coolness of using the f-word. People will intentionaly sing along to the edited version, accenting the F-word when it's omitted, and when Maroon 5 does in fact get to perform it the original way, fans will go crazy when that line is sung. Was it the band's choice to put the f-word in? Probably not, as it's more work for them to remember to take it out. My guess is a record exec changed some lyrics to boost sales.
Don't forget, it's called the music 'business' for a reason.
Click the link to listen to "Makes Me Wonder"
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