Maroon 5: Overexposed - Album Review

Maroon 5 - Overexposed          *****

Back in 2002 Maroon 5 bursed onto the music scene with the high acclaimed and much loved album 'Songs About Jane'.  Having shifted in excess of 8 million copies it's easy to see why some people can't just get over this album and move on, as Maroon 5 have managed to do.  Hard core fans didn't have much to say about the amazing follow up 'It Won't Be Soon Before Long' or the third album 'Hands All Over' and now they are clearly going down a mainstream pop route the claws are out.


So is Overexposed as good as their previous work?






Yes, in my opinion, and maybe even better.  When I first heard Moves Like Jagger I knew the band were onto something good and I hoped the new album would capitalise on that new sound, and it does.  Tracks like Lucky Strike and Love Someone really are incredibly bubblegum pop records, as are Fortune Teller and Tickets BUT they still have the old Maroon 5 twist on them, the sexy bass is still evident and Adam's distinct voice set them apart from anything else in the charts at the moments.  
There are still classic Maroon 5 moments though for the die hards such as opener and current single, One More Night, Beautiful Goodbye and the very funky Lady Killer.  
For me though the albums crowning glory comes almost at the end of the LP, Doin' Dirt is an all out floor filler, it has a Moves Like Jagger-esque beat to it and a riff to die for, this really is what music was made to sound like.


All in all this is Maroon 5's best all round album, the production is slick, the song writing is beautiful and sarcastic as ever and Adam's voice is simply beautiful.  Ignore the moaners saying the are too 'poppy', too 'mainstream' just buy this and enjoy it for what it is... a bloody good album!

Maroon 5 - Doin' Dirt