Keep your Chin Up: Stay Positive
A review about Maroon 5’s neo-soul sex appeal album
out of 4by Vanessa Morais
It Won’t Be Soon Before Long (launched in May 2007 by Octone), is the latest Maroon 5 album and, for sure, their most memorable record. After climbing up the Billboard charts, this last album seems to follow in the shadow of the first album that, even two years after the launch, keeps booming on the radio. However, if you were expecting a flavourless album, you will have an amazing surprise. Maroon 5 (or Kara’s Flowers, for the oldest fans) tried to reinvent their music, and they did an extraordinary job. Beyond this, you can clearly realize their influences inside each track.
The whole record is unique. It makes you dream thru the past by passing thru songs. The first one makes you wake up and remember the 80s and the 90s (if you were alive then, of course). If you want to be more modern, you can listen to the remix, with Rihanna (poor girl), and this duet for sure will make you shake your booty.
“Makes Me Wonder” was the first release of the CD for this Los Angeles rock/pop band. With guitar, drum and bass and some synthesizer, this anthem became a hit in the first week on the radio. Continuing the trip, you can remember your past loves, listening to “Goodnight Goodnight” and “Won’t Go Home Without You”. But if you are going thru a breakup I recommend skipping these ballads.
In spite of their obvious influences, Adam Levine (singer) said that this album is more self-confident and powerful lyrically: “…you can dance to it. There is a little more attitude.” However, you can figure out a lot of different influences in each track. This is because they are always working with diverse genres. “Nothing Lasts Forever” reminds me of Steve Wonder, for example, because the soft rhythm, the piano in the background, and because it is the kind of music that you put on the stereo and just let it play, while you drive down an empty road with all the car windows open. Jamiroquai, Sting, Kanye West, Alicia Keys, and even Michael Jackson are some other influences of this pop/rock band.
Despite the obvious influences and some boring songs (it happens in every album, it doesn’t matter who the artist is), the album was received with open arms by critics. Some songs are so dramatic that they can dizzy you, but in such a new pop/rock band it is to be expected.
In spite of their obvious influences, Adam Levine (singer) said that this album is more self-confident and powerful lyrically: “…you can dance to it. There is a little more attitude.” However, you can figure out a lot of different influences in each track. This is because they are always working with diverse genres. “Nothing Lasts Forever” reminds me of Steve Wonder, for example, because the soft rhythm, the piano in the background, and because it is the kind of music that you put on the stereo and just let it play, while you drive down an empty road with all the car windows open. Jamiroquai, Sting, Kanye West, Alicia Keys, and even Michael Jackson are some other influences of this pop/rock band.
Despite the obvious influences and some boring songs (it happens in every album, it doesn’t matter who the artist is), the album was received with open arms by critics. Some songs are so dramatic that they can dizzy you, but in such a new pop/rock band it is to be expected.
Allmusic.com gave the album 4.5 stars out of 5 and so did Billboard. For sure you are thinking: what does It Won’t Be Soon Before Long mean? Neither I nor other critics knew what it meant, before the band explained that this title is a sentence to motivate the whole band during the tour. And I think that it motivated not just the band, but all the fans or everyone who listen to this record.
If you become curious to know more about lyrics from this Maroon 5's album, check out this link and read all of them!
If you become curious to know more about lyrics from this Maroon 5's album, check out this link and read all of them!
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