So Levine appears to limp into this because he just blew up a car and twisted ankles happen after that. Man life is hard for the upper-working class, all those papers, email drafts on his computer and boy; what a mundane life! Hopefully something livens up this otherwise dull life. Am I the only one hoping for Occupy Wall Street to march in and firebomb the place? Or maybe Bane comes in and the Scarecrow sends Levine to exile?
Someone is valuing pleasure OVER work! Total me-firster, right Gregg Easterbrook? It takes 41 seconds to launch into the opening lines of the song. Is this Transformers 4? Hot female banker walks in, also wearing glasses which means she is also intelligent like Adam Levine. Now we are starting to piece together this amazing plot.
In case you are with me, we know this ends with Adam Levine calling someone on the payphone. These are the events leading up to it. They suck and ruin music videos. Though I must add, how great would this video be if nothing happened at work? Alas, Adam Levine is a visionary. After some shooting in which Levine hides on the side of his desk and numerous amounts of gunshots are launched, we finally see the rest of the band. The band have been reduced to 1-second cameos as bank robbers? They have attained the same amount of noteworthiness as the Secretary of Transportation or Fonzworth Bentley.
Is the Kansas City Chiefs offensive line protecting him? Either that or the robbers are kind of sexist. Or Adam Levine is. Now what is Adam Levine muttering? She unbuckles her shoe…. But what is this lady going to do with one high heeled shoe? Adam Levine has his pistol, whilst you have your semi-automatics mind you, and all of a sudden the bad guys look like Rick Perry at a Republican debate.
Did they seriously not think to look behind the desks? Also, why did that guy ignore her? Is she still shoeless? Where is Ja Rule? Okay in six seconds, the robbers miss Levine at point-blank range as he grabs the woman who removed her shoes so he could run better, obviously minimalism has worked in her favor as they highstep their way over gunshots.
This is happening. This song is about a phone. So in the next 15 seconds, the duo emerge from the bank only to be greeted by police who seem to mistakenly accuse two bankers one who is shoeless to be the criminals as Levine drops the gun. For some odd reason, they continue to run away even though the cops appear to have only shot once and likely would just you know, go into the building to arrest the rest of Maroon 5 who moonlight as bank robbers. Meanwhile people who are apparently near a hostage situation, seem to be remotely uninterested in the fact that a heist is taking place right next to them.
Nevermind the cops are chasing them. Apparently two policemen were called to the scene of a bank robbery in a major U. After successfully ditching the cops, who just give up completely, the duo…wait Wiz Khalifa is in this!? They hide behind a car as Levine appears to just ditch her after last words. I would love to know what the script said he was supposed to say. I love you, but…you are…. Why is he still on the run? So Adam Levine is clearly the worst person in the world.
As soon as Levine peels out of the parking spot, a policeman is immediately on his tail. Did they know he would steal a car?
Better yet, Adam Levine has now ditched the girl he saved to fend for herself, stolen a car, made an illegal turn, blown through a couple of redlights and is likely in excess of the speed limit.
The cop is also right behind him and Adam Levine is apparently Jeff Gordon. Okay what the hell is going on? Did Michael Bay direct this? On the Billboard Hot , the song debuted at the number three spot before peaking at number two. The song sold , copies in its first week, becoming the best sales week for a digital song by a group and also the eleventh-best sales week overall.
It peaked at number one in Canada for eight consecutive weeks. It also topped the charts in the United Kingdom, making it the band's first ever single to do so.
The song was written by Maroon 5's lead singer Adam Levine, along with Ammar Malik, Robopop, Benny Blanco, Shellback, and Wiz Khalifa, while production, programming, additional bass, keys, acoustic guitars and background vocals were provided by Shellback and Blanco.
The writing process started when Malik and Robopop constructed a piano line and demo track that Blanco compiled into a proper melody. They gave it to Levine, who wrote the lyrics.
Blanco also wanted to throw a wrench into the Maroon 5 works by adding hip-hop flavor to the its sound, "I love when things don't make sense, like, 'Holy fuck! I like when bands dip into a whole different genre.
In an interview with Rolling Stone , Blanco told that five minutes before Khalifa arrived at the studio, he prepared "the sound beds for the finger snap-driven portion of the jam". However, producer Max Martin, who was the executive producer of Overexposed , adjusted the chorus, because he felt it should be a "little different". Khalifa appears as courtesy of Rostrum Records. On April 17, , it was digitally released in most territories.
Its instrumentation, which consists of funk guitars, bass and synths is accompanied by Levine's high falsetto. The song begins with Levine performing an upper register read-through of the chorus backed by a simple keyboard. Because this is their first song with profanity, "Shit" and "fucking" are intact, but have been replaced with "it" and "stupid" in the song's clean version.
The clean version censors Wiz Khalifa's cursing as well. The song received positive reviews from music critics. Crystal Bell from Huffington Post called it "definitely one of the band's most pop-y singles to date. It's melodic and catchy, and but not overly aggressive. Rick Florino of Artist Direct commented that the song "merges one of the band's biggest hooks with clever lines.
In the United States, the song debuted on the Pop Songs chart at number 21, making it the highest-charting debut by a group since 'N Sync's "Pop" debuted at the same position in June On Pop Songs, the group makes it to back-to-back toppers, as its last entry, "Moves Like Jagger," featuring Christina Aguilera , reigned for six weeks beginning in October.
The band had likewise led consecutively with its first two number ones, " This Love " three weeks and "She Will Be Loved" four in Wiz Khalifa, featured on the pop edit of "Payphone," scores his first Mainstream Top 40 number one. On the Adult Pop Songs chart, "Payphone" debuted at number 17, the highest-ever debut by a group and the third-highest overall. It also topped the Adult Pop Songs, becoming their fifth leader. On Adult Pop Songs, Maroon 5 - whose number one ledger on the list includes its four Pop Songs leaders plus 's " Misery " - ties Nickelback for the most commanding titles among groups in the chart's year history.
It is also the eighth-best sales week overall since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking digital downloads in The song debuted at number three on the Billboard Hot It failed to reach number one, peaking at number two on that chart for six non-consecutive weeks, being blocked from the top spot by Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" and Carly Rae Jepsen's smash hit of the summer, "Call Me Maybe".
On its 18th week in the top ten, "Payphone" dropped to number seven on the Billboard Hot , making it the first time the song was not a part of the top five. It also spent its first nineteen weeks in the top ten. Over 5 million copies of the song had been sold in the United States by March , and as of June , it has sold 5,, copies in the US.
On the Canadian Hot chart, the song debuted at number 2, for the issue dated May 5, The following week, the song fell to number 3, where it remained for a further week. The following week, the song climbed to number 2 and on the chart issue dated June 2, , the song topped the Canadian charts. For the following seven weeks, the song remained at the top, spending a total of eight weeks at the top. It remained at the top of the chart for two non-consecutive weeks and became both Maroon 5's and Wiz Khalifa's first chart-topping song in Britain.
It sold over , copies, which marks the third week in a row that the number one single broke the , barrier after Gary Barlow and Cheryl Cole.
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