Even though I have, in my life, liked exactly two songs by Maroon 5. ‘Moves Like Jagger’ and ‘Harder To Breathe’, I was interested by ‘Overexposed’ to see what direction Maroon 5 would take post the obscene success of the former song. Adam Levine’s ability to write songs exclusively about women is baffling. This, from a unit whose maiden venture was titled, ‘Songs About Jane’ shows a deeper level of commitment to a cause than that of Bono to Africa. So, ‘Overexposed’ is about relationship troubles, seductresses and former lovers. It is also about replacing what little alternative rock Maroon 5 commenced their career with, with heavy electronic/disco music with liberal amounts of R&B thrown in. Apart from ‘Sad’, a piano ballad, which is the one song where you can discern that Adam Levine can actually sing, and ‘Lady-killer’, a brilliant bass-heavy, falsetto-driven tribute to Michael Jackson about a lesbian home-breaker, most songs are shockingly mediocre. ‘Pay-phone’, ‘Daylight’ and ‘Fortune Teller’ are trite and annoying, and make you wonder how the members of Maroon 5 other than Adam Levine put up with the obsolescence they seem to have been relegated to.
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