Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera's new video for the song "Moves Like Jagger" premiered yesterday. Unfortunately, it is not that exciting. It's become one of those songs I wish I never heard. It's maudlin and repetitive. The lyrics are ridiculous and oversimplified. The video is even worse.
The one redeeming quality about the video is that Christina Aguilera looks like herself and not the drag-queen version covered in red lipstick and pounds of liner and blush. That being said, the rest of the video is a strange combination between dizzying and boring.
The video begins with a clip of an interview with Mick Jagger as a young rock star just beginning his career. It then flashes between clips of Jagger on stage and some terrible moves by models. This is where I get angry because Maroon 5 and models in a video is like chicken and rice. They can't seem to separate.
Adam Levine is really the face and body of the band, but that doesn't mean someone shouldn't exercise veto power. How about a concept with an actual story line? How about a girl who actually looks like she eats more than once a day? I'm just saying.
But really this critique is a longstanding problem I've had with Maroon 5. Ever since the first album, it's been all downhill for me. The songs are too weak, Adam is the only person you see besides a model for long periods of time, and it's just not working.
What happened to the days of "She Will Be Loved" and a real video? Or even the idea of them writing a song about something other than models who end up rolling around in the videos with Adam like a confused pair of bugs trying to escape bug spray?
In the meantime, I'll just pretend it's 2005 and go listen to "Sweetest Goodbye".
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