The hook he wrote-this great chorus hook, and, I mean, the whole song is a hook-I feel like that's how you know you've got a good one, when the whole song's a hook. “We were spending summertime in New York, and the wonderful and talented blackbear wanted to write a song with us.
I miss him every single day of my life, and I'll never fill that hole, ever.” Here, Levine takes us inside a few of the album’s key tracks.
I really didn't want to have to talk about this all the time, but I also would have probably really regretted not naming the record after someone who was the most important figure in our band's trajectory, life, career, everything. “There was no one else, it was just the two of us. Feldstein had been a fan, Levine says, so every choice in feature had special meaning. And it seeped into the music, I think, in all the right ways.”īut also notable is the band’s choice in collaborators here, from the pop-punk pedigree of blackbear (“Echo”) to the timeless charisma of Stevie Nicks (“Remedy”) to the Latin influence of Tainy and Añuel AA (“Button”) to haunting contributions from late rappers Juice WRLD (“Can’t Leave You Alone”) and Nipsey Hussle (a YG-enriched remix of “Memories”). It's just the time we were making it-it was a strange, very reflective time for everybody. “Lyrically,” he says, “this one gets introspective and personal. JORDI feels like a work born of new perspective, its mood contemplative throughout-whether Levine’s expressing appreciation for a doomed romance (“Beautiful Mistakes”, featuring Megan Thee Stallion) or a deep connection (“Lost”, the Pachelbel-indebted 2019 single “Memories”, also dedicated to Feldstein). We're trying to make great music that stands the test of time.” On their soulful seventh LP, the pop-rock giants pay tribute to long-time manager Jordan Feldstein, a childhood friend of Levine’s who died suddenly in late 2017. We’re trying to do things to challenge ourselves, to move people in the right ways. “We’re not trying to do anything to make it any further, not trying to just make a buck. “At this point, we’ve made it,” Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine tells Apple Music.
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