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** Music/CardiB in "Girls Like You"
* AllAbusersAreMale: Royally averted in too many of their songs.
** In-Universe in "She Will Be Loved" where a woman is being abused by her husband.

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** Music/CardiB in "Girls Like You"
You".
* AllAbusersAreMale: Royally averted in too many of their songs.
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In-Universe in "She Will Be Loved" where a woman is being abused by her husband.



* AudienceParticipationSong: Anybody could cover "This Love" and get an audience going.

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* AudienceParticipationSong: AudienceParticipationSong:
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Anybody could cover "This Love" and get an audience going.



* BettyAndVeronica: First, the music video for "She Will Be Loved" depicts the young male protagonist finding himself torn between his young girlfriend and her older, attractive (and abused) mother.

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* BettyAndVeronica: First, the BettyAndVeronica:
** The
music video for "She Will Be Loved" depicts the young male protagonist finding himself torn between his young girlfriend and her older, attractive (and abused) mother.



** Also in the video for "One More Night".

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%% ** Also in the video for "One More Night".



* BreakupSong: "Through With You", "Not Coming Home", "Sweetest Goodbye" (of the bittersweet form), "Just A Feeling", "Makes Me Wonder", "How", and "This Summer's Gonna Hurt".
* ButtMonkey: Adam becomes this in the "Misery" video.
* CarefulWithThatAxe: The "AAAAAOOOOUGH" in "Animals".

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%% * BreakupSong: "Through With You", "Not Coming Home", "Sweetest Goodbye" (of the bittersweet form), "Just A Feeling", "Makes Me Wonder", "How", and "This Summer's Gonna Hurt".
* ButtMonkey: Adam becomes this in the "Misery" video.
video where he suffers [[CosmicPlaything many pervasive injuries]].
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* CarefulWithThatAxe: The "AAAAAOOOOUGH" in "Animals".



** Needless to say Maroon 5 does this a lot, but that's the most heard radar skipping.
* GodivaHair: The cover of ''Songs About Jane'' has this.

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** Needless to say Maroon 5 does this a lot, but that's the most heard radar skipping.
%% * GodivaHair: The cover of ''Songs About Jane'' has this.



* [[HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook Had To Be Falsely Suspected To Be A Crook]]: In the video for "Payphone", Adam and his coworker escape from the robbers by stealing one of their guns, threatening them with it and running like hell. The police mistake Adam for an accomplice since he was running out of a bank robbery in progress with a gun in one hand and an attractive woman in the other and he keeps running, steals a car and blows up a police car to escape... an occupied one. And it wouldn't have happened if everyone had just stopped to talk.

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* [[HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook Had To Be Falsely Suspected To Be A Crook]]: HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook: In the video for "Payphone", Adam and his coworker escape from the robbers by stealing one of their guns, threatening them with it and running like hell. The police mistake Adam for an accomplice since he was running out of a bank robbery in progress with a gun in one hand and an attractive woman in the other and he keeps running, steals a car and blows up a police car to escape... an occupied one. And it wouldn't have happened if everyone had just stopped to talk.



* {{Irony}}: Wiz Khalifa's verse in "Payphone" is basically "I'm rich, you're not, I made it, you didn't, so fuck off, haters." When he sings it in the video... he doesn't exactly look it.

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* {{Irony}}: Wiz Khalifa's verse in "Payphone" is basically "I'm rich, you're not, I made it, you didn't, so fuck off, haters." When he sings raos it in the video... he doesn't exactly look it.



* IWantSong: "Love Somebody"
* KubrickStare: Done by Adam several times in the video for "Makes Me Wonder."
* LonelyPianoPiece: "Sad" from ''Overexposed''.

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* IWantSong: "Love Somebody"
Somebody" is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin about Adam wanting a specific lover]] in his life who meets his type.
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* KubrickStare: Done by Adam several times in the video for "Makes Me Wonder."
%% * LonelyPianoPiece: "Sad" from ''Overexposed''.



* LyricalDissonance:

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* LyricalDissonance: A lot of their songs are catchy and stay with you, but little do most listeners pay attention to the fact that 99% of them are about breakups and domestic abuse.



* MrFanservice: Adam spends most of their videos either [[WalkingShirtlessScene shirtless]] or wearing something extremely tight. He's also well aware of his straight female, bisexuals, and gay male fanbase and quite willingly plays to all three.

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* MrFanservice: Adam spends most of their videos either [[WalkingShirtlessScene shirtless]] or wearing something extremely tight. He's also well aware of his straight female, bisexuals, and gay male fanbase and quite willingly plays to all three.



** "Makes Me Wonder" features him being groped by various women at an aiprort
** "Moves Like Jagger" has him parading around shirtless
** He's shirtless a lot in both "One More Night" and "Animals"
** "This Summer's Gonna Hurt" opens with him putting a ModestyTowel on, then taking it off as just as quickly exposing his bare ass for about 5 seconds

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** "Makes Me Wonder" features him being groped by various women at an aiprort
aiport.
** "Moves Like Jagger" has him parading around shirtless
shirtless.
** He's shirtless a lot in both "One More Night" and "Animals"
"Animals".
** "This Summer's Gonna Hurt" opens with him putting a ModestyTowel on, then taking it off as just as quickly exposing his bare ass for about 5 secondsseconds.



* OffscreenCrash: Horrifically averted in "Maps".



* PrecisionFStrike: "Not fit to fuckin' tread the ground that I've been walking on" from "Harder to Breathe".

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* PrecisionFStrike: A lot of their otherwise clean songs abruptly use the F-bomb or some expletive, though most mainstream listeners don't notice since the lines are often redubbed or skipped over in the radio versions.
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"Not fit to fuckin' tread the ground that I've been walking on" from "Harder to Breathe".



* PrettyBoy: Adam, full stop.



* RuleOfDrama / EveryCarIsAPinto: In the "Payphone" video, Adam's car waits for him to get out and walk about a metre away before exploding spectacularly. [[UnflinchingWalk Adam himself is somehow unharmed.]]

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* RuleOfDrama / EveryCarIsAPinto: RuleOfDrama: In the "Payphone" video, Adam's car waits for him to get out and walk about a metre away before exploding spectacularly. [[UnflinchingWalk Adam himself is somehow unharmed.]]



* ShoutOut: This lyric from "What Lovers Do":

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
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This lyric from "What Lovers Do":



** Many fans have compared the plot of the music video for "She Will Be Loved" to ''{{Film/TheGraduate}}'', due to its mother-daughter love triangle.

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** Many fans have compared the plot of the music video for "She Will Be Loved" to ''{{Film/TheGraduate}}'', ''Film/TheGraduate'', due to its mother-daughter love triangle.



* SillyLoveSongs: "Sweetest Goodbye", "Never Gonna Leave This Bed", "Sunday Morning", "Won't go home without you", "It was always you".

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%% * SillyLoveSongs: "Sweetest Goodbye", "Never Gonna Leave This Bed", "Sunday Morning", "Won't go home without you", "It was always you".



* SpecialGuest: Music/ChristinaAguilera in "Moves Like Jagger".
* StalkerWithACrush: "Animals", to frightening effect.
* StudioChatter: Before their cover of "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" on ''Hands All Over''.
* StuffBlowingUp: The video for "Payphone".

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%% * SpecialGuest: Music/ChristinaAguilera in "Moves Like Jagger".
* StalkerWithACrush: "Animals", to frightening effect.
effect. It uses animals' tendency to prey on other animals as a metaphor for just '''[[UpToEleven how]]''' far Adam will go to get his lover back.
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* StudioChatter: Before their cover of "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" on ''Hands All Over''.
%% * StuffBlowingUp: The video for "Payphone".



* YourCheatingHeart: "Wake Up Call".

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%% * YourCheatingHeart: "Wake Up Call".
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* "Music/{{Animals}}"

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* "Music/{{Animals}}""Music/Animals2014"
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** In "Animals", the video starts an intro was based on the opening credits of Seven (1995), with a noise of the Kodak 35 camera.
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* "Music/{{Memories}}"
* "Music/NobodysLove"
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** "Misery"; if the title of the song itself wasn't obvious enough, the whole video even depicts Adam going through a bunch of physical mishaps.
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** ''Red Pill Blues:'' "Visions" [[note]]Dirty Heads intended to release it for an earlier album until the song caught the attention of Adam Levine.

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** ''Red Pill Blues:'' "Visions" [[note]]Dirty Heads intended to release it for an earlier album until the song caught the attention of Adam Levine.[[/note]]
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*** ''Hands All Over:'' "[[{{Music/Queen}} Crazy Little Thing Called Love]]," "[[{{Music/JohnLennon}} Happy Christmas]]([[{{Music/YokoOno}} War Is Over]])"
*** ''Overexposed:'' "[[{{Music/Prince}} Kiss]]" and "[[{{Music/AlGreen}} Let's Stay Together]]"
*** ''V:'' "[[{{Music/MarcyPlayground}} Sex and Candy]]"
*** ''Red Pill Blues:'' "Visions" [[note]]Dirty Heads intended to release it for an earlier album until the song caught the attention of Adam Levine.
*** In addition, "This Love" is one of the most covered songs of the last 10 years.

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*** ** ''Hands All Over:'' "[[{{Music/Queen}} Crazy Little Thing Called Love]]," "[[{{Music/JohnLennon}} Happy Christmas]]([[{{Music/YokoOno}} War Is Over]])"
*** ** ''Overexposed:'' "[[{{Music/Prince}} Kiss]]" and "[[{{Music/AlGreen}} Let's Stay Together]]"
*** ** ''V:'' "[[{{Music/MarcyPlayground}} Sex and Candy]]"
*** ** ''Red Pill Blues:'' "Visions" [[note]]Dirty Heads intended to release it for an earlier album until the song caught the attention of Adam Levine.
*** ** In addition, "This Love" is one of the most covered songs of the last 10 years.
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After a five year gap, Maroon 5's second studio album, ''It Won't Be Soon Before Long'',was released in May 2007. Its lead single "Makes Me Wonder" become the band's first number one single in America, and subsequent singles "Wake Up Call" and "Won't Go Home Without You" were released to decent success. Additionally, a compilation of previously unreleased songs, ''The B-Side Collection'', and a remix album, ''Call and Response'', were also released shortly after.

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After a five year gap, Maroon 5's second studio album, ''It Won't Be Soon Before Long'',was Long'', was released in May 2007. Its lead single "Makes Me Wonder" become the band's first number one single in America, and subsequent singles "Wake Up Call" and "Won't Go Home Without You" were released to decent success. Additionally, a compilation of previously unreleased songs, ''The B-Side Collection'', and a remix album, ''Call and Response'', were also released shortly after.
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* '''''Mickey Madden''''' - bass (1994-present)

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* '''''Mickey Madden''''' '''Mickey Madden''' - bass (1994-present)(1994-2020)
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* BaitAndSwitch: The music video for "She Will Be Loved" shows the daughter, whose youthful looks could indeed possibly pass her for eighteen years old, with Levine first. The line "Beauty queen of only eighteen" is sung. However, it's quickly revealed that the real LoveInterest of Levine's character is the mother, who is decidedly middle-aged.
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* ProtestSong: The rare non-{{Anvilicious}} one--"Makes Me Wonder", which originally started out as a simple BreakUpSong (and was started well before its eventual release and then shelved because Adam couldn't seem to make it work), but there were some lines that seemed to apply to the political climate [[TheWarOnTerror at the time]] so it was reworked into a song with two meanings, one about a failed relationship (as originally intended) and the other about "failure to understand or trust" the leadership of his country.

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* ProtestSong: The rare non-{{Anvilicious}} one--"Makes Me Wonder", which originally started out as a simple BreakUpSong (and was started well before its eventual release and then shelved because Adam couldn't seem to make it work), but there were some lines that seemed to apply to the political climate [[TheWarOnTerror [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror at the time]] so it was reworked into a song with two meanings, one about a failed relationship (as originally intended) and the other about "failure to understand or trust" the leadership of his country.
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* EpicRocking: The aforementioned "Kiss" lasts 7 minutes. "Closer" from ''Red Pill Blues'' takes this UpToEleven, literally. "Untitled" from ''We Like Digging?'' (Kara's Flowers' first release) runs for almost ''13 minutes.''

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* EpicRocking: The aforementioned "Kiss" lasts 7 minutes. "Closer" "Closure" from ''Red Pill Blues'' takes this UpToEleven, literally. "Untitled" from ''We Like Digging?'' (Kara's Flowers' first release) runs for almost ''13 minutes.''
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* GodivaHair: The cover of ''Songs About Jane'' has this.
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** "This Summer's Gonna Hurt" opens with him putting a towel on, then taking it off as just as quickly exposing his bare ass for about 5 seconds

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** "This Summer's Gonna Hurt" opens with him putting a towel ModestyTowel on, then taking it off as just as quickly exposing his bare ass for about 5 seconds
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* "Music/Misery"

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* "Music/Misery""Music/{{Misery}}"



* "Music/Payphone"

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* "Music/Payphone""Music/{{Payphone}}"



* "Music/Maps"
* "Music/Animals"
* "Music/Sugar"

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* "Music/Maps"
"Music/{{Maps}}"
* "Music/Animals"
"Music/{{Animals}}"
* "Music/Sugar""Music/{{Sugar}}"



* "Music/Feelings"

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* "Music/Feelings""Music/{{Feelings}}"



* "Music/Cold"

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* "Music/Cold""Music/{{Cold}}"



* "Music/Wait"

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* "Music/Wait""Music/{{Wait}}"
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* BeardOfSorrow: In the music video for "Memories" frontman Adam Levine sports one in honor of his late friend and manager Jordan Feldstein.
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* "Music/Won'tGoHomeWithoutYou"

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* "Music/Won'tGoHomeWithoutYou""Music/WontGoHomeWithoutYou"



* "Music/Runaway"

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* "Music/Runaway""Music/RunAway"



* "Music/Daylight"

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* "Music/Daylight""Music/DayLight"

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!!! Studio albums:




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!!! Live albums:
* ''1.22.03.Acoustic'' (2003)
* ''Live - Friday the 13th'' (2005)
* ''Live from [=SoHo=]'' (2008)
* ''Live from Le Cabaret'' (2008)
!!! Compilations:
* ''The B-Side Collection'' [[note]] Consists of outtakes from ''It Won't Be Soon Before Long''[[/note]] (2007)
* ''[[RemixAlbum Call and Response: The Remixes]]'' (2008)
* ''[[GreatestHitsAlbum Singles]]'' (2015)



** This was invoked to a lesser extent in some of the ''Hands All Over''-era songs.



* CoverVersion: "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" on ''Hands All Over'', "[[{{Music/Prince}} Kiss]]" and "[[{{Music/AlGreen}} Let's Stay Together]]" on ''Overexposed''. In addition, "This Love" is one of the most covered songs of the last 10 years.

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* CoverVersion: "Crazy CoverVersion:
***''Hands All Over:'' "[[{{Music/Queen}} Crazy
Little Thing Called Love" on ''Hands All Over'', Love]]," "[[{{Music/JohnLennon}} Happy Christmas]]([[{{Music/YokoOno}} War Is Over]])"
***''Overexposed:''
"[[{{Music/Prince}} Kiss]]" and "[[{{Music/AlGreen}} Let's Stay Together]]" on ''Overexposed''. In Together]]"
***''V:'' "[[{{Music/MarcyPlayground}} Sex and Candy]]"
***''Red Pill Blues:'' "Visions" [[note]]Dirty Heads intended to release it for an earlier album until the song caught the attention of Adam Levine.
***In
addition, "This Love" is one of the most covered songs of the last 10 years.


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* LongestSongGoesLast: "Closure," the longest Maroon 5 song in existence, [[{{Pun}} closes]] ''Red Pill Blues.''
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* ''We Like Digging?'' (1994, as Kara's Flowers)
* ''The Fourth World'' (1999, as Kara's Flowers)

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* ''We Like Digging?'' (1994, (1995, as Kara's Flowers)
* ''The Fourth World'' (1999, (1997, as Kara's Flowers)



** As Kara's Flowers, their self-released debut (which dates back to 1994) was closer to {{Grunge}} of all genres.

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** As Kara's Flowers, their self-released debut (which dates back to 1994) 1995) was closer to {{Grunge}} of all genres.
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!!Members (Founding members in '''bold''', current members in ''italic'')
* '''''Jesse Carmichael''''' - keyboards [[note]] in studio only since 2014 [[/note]], rhythm guitar, backing vocals (1994-2012, 2014-present)
* ''Sam Farrar'' - keyboards, synthesizers, sampler, rhythm and bass guitar, percussion, backing vocals (2012-16 touring, 2016-present official)
* ''Matt Flynn'' - drums, percussion (2004-06 touring, 2006-present official)
* '''''Creator/AdamLevine''''' - lead vocals, lead [[note]] in Kara's Flowers [[/note]] and rhythm guitar (1994-present)
* '''''Mickey Madden''''' - bass (1994-present)
* ''PJ Morton'' - keyboards, backing vocals (2010-12 touring, 2012-present official)
* ''James Valentine'' - lead guitar, backing vocals (2001-present)
* '''Ryan Dusick''' - drums, percussion, backing vocals (1994-2006)

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* PrettyBoy: Adam, full stop.
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!! Selected videography:
* "Music/HarderToBreathe"
* "Music/ThisLove"
* "Music/SheWillBeLoved"
* "Music/SundayMorning"
* "Music/IfINeverSeeYourFaceAgain"
* "Music/MakesMeWonder"
* "Music/WakeUpCall"
* "Music/Won'tGoHomeWithoutYou"
* "Music/GoodnightGoodnight"
* "Music/Misery"
* "Music/NeverGonnaLeaveThisBed"
* "Music/GiveALittleMore"
* "Music/Runaway"
* "Music/HandsAllOver"
* "Music/OutOfGoodbyes"
* "Music/MovesLikeJagger"
* "Music/Payphone"
* "Music/OneMoreNight"
* "Music/Daylight"
* "Music/LoveSomebody"
* "Music/Maps"
* "Music/Animals"
* "Music/Sugar"
* "Music/ThisSummersGonnaHurt"
* "Music/Feelings"
* "Music/DontWannaKnow"
* "Music/Cold"
* "Music/WhatLoversDo"
* "Music/Wait"
* "Music/GirlsLikeYou"
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** Many fans have compared the plot of the music video for "She Will Be Loved" to ''[[{{Film/TheGraduate}}]]'', due to its mother-daughter love triangle.

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** Many fans have compared the plot of the music video for "She Will Be Loved" to ''[[{{Film/TheGraduate}}]]'', ''{{Film/TheGraduate}}'', due to its mother-daughter love triangle.
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** Many fans have compared the plot of the music video for "She Will Be Loved" to ''[[Film/TheGraduate]]'', due to its mother-daughter love triangle.

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** Many fans have compared the plot of the music video for "She Will Be Loved" to ''[[Film/TheGraduate]]'', ''[[{{Film/TheGraduate}}]]'', due to its mother-daughter love triangle.

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** In-Universe in "She Will Be Loved" where a woman is being abused by her husband.



* BettyAndVeronica: First, the music video for "She Will Be Loved" depicts the young male protagonist finding himself torn between his young girlfriend and her older, attractive (and abused) mother.
** In "Maps", Levine goes to a party with his girlfriend but gets drunk with his friends and accidentally kisses another girl when his girlfriend catches them and she runs out...Things only get worst from there.



** Shown in the music video for "She Will Be Loved" when Levine finds his distressed love interest (also the mother of his girlfriend) lying passed out on the floor from being beaten into an unconscious state by her deadbeat husband. And even to Levine, with her hair a mess, her makeup running from crying and her lipstick smeared across her mouth, the mother is still beautiful. Cue the intense kissing scenes that follow...

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** Shown in In the music video for "She Will Be Loved" when Loved", Levine finds his distressed love interest (also the mother of his girlfriend) lying passed out on the floor from after being beaten into an unconscious state by her deadbeat husband. And even to Levine, with her hair a mess, her makeup running from crying and her lipstick smeared across her mouth, the mother is still beautiful. Cue the intense kissing scenes that follow...


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* AWildRapperAppears: Music/WizKhalifa in "Payphone".

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** Music/CardiB in "Girls Like You"
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* Ascetic Aesthetic: The "Makes Me Wonder" video, filmed with glowing neon lights and lavish sets at LAX.

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* Ascetic Aesthetic: AsceticAesthetic: The "Makes Me Wonder" video, filmed with glowing neon lights and lavish sets at LAX.

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* Ascetic Aesthetic: The "Makes Me Wonder" video, filmed with glowing neon lights and lavish sets at LAX.






* ConceptVideo: Most of Maroon 5's music videos such as "She Will Be Loved", "Wake Up Call" with extended dialogue, "Maps", "Animals", "One More Night", and "Cold".

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* ConceptVideo: Most Many of Maroon 5's music their videos such as "She have plots.
**"She
Will Be Loved", Loved": A man tries to save an old flame from her abusive husband.
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"Wake Up Call" Call": [[RealTrailerFakeMovie A fake movie trailer]], starring the members of the band wrapped up in a murder conspiracy.
** "Maps": The dissolution of a couple's relationship, ending in the girlfriend's accidental death. [[BackToFront Story presented in reverse.]]
** "Animals": [[StalkerWithACrush A photographer stalking a woman and fantasizing about being
with extended dialogue, "Maps", "Animals", her.]]
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"One More Night", Night": A boxer and "Cold".his fiancée's relationship slowly deteriorates.
** "Cold": A man takes drugs at a party and hallucinates.
** "Payphone": A teller flees a bank robbery and is misidentified as one of the thieves.
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* ConceptVideo: Most of Maroon 5's music videos such as "She Will Be Loved", "Wake Up Call" with extended dialogue, "Maps", "Animals", "One More Night", and "Cold".
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* ShoutOut: This lyric from "What Lovers do":
--> ''[[{{Film/TheWizardOfOz}} Drop a house on me,]] do you love me or bot?

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* ShoutOut: This lyric from "What Lovers do":
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--> ''[[{{Film/TheWizardOfOz}} Drop a house on me,]] do you love me or bot?not?''

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