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Anno 2002 : esce in tutto il mondo "Songs About Jane" dei Maroon 5, cinque ragazzi provenienti da Los Angeles. Le loro influenze sono tante, e tutte riportano ad un ritmo e un impianto musicale prettamente funk con leggerissime sfumature soul, il tutto però amalgamato piuttosto male, senza particolari colpi di genio o parti particolarmente originali. Il successo per l'album arriverà solamente un anno dopo la pubblicazione, nel 2003, grazie alla notevole spinta di media e casa discografica.
Unici brani degni di nota sono il bel singolo "She will be loved", nel quale però la voce molto nasale del cantante Adam Levine (per altro certamente non un grande vocalist, anzi...) non si incastra nel migliore dei modi con la bella sezione musicale, e "Must Get Out", ballata da un ritmo abbastanza blando ma assolutamente non malinconico.
Per il resto si assiste ad un disco abbastanza ripetitivo. "Harder To Breathe" (colonna sonora della pubblicità degli orologi Breil mi sembra) si basa su un impianto chitarristico coinvolgente ma allo stesso tempo praticamente uguale a tutto il resto del disco. "This Love", primo singolo che li ha consacrati al top delle principali classifiche mondiali (anche quelle delle suonerie per cellulari) per quanto riguarda la parte musicale sarebbe anche ascoltabile, ma il fatto che stanca decisamente dopo un massimo di 4-5 ascolti, complici anche i molteplici passaggi in radio, video clip e spot televisivi, fa capire che qualcosa non va...
Andando avanti si incontrano episodi come "Shiver" (nulla a che fare con lo splendido brano dei Coldplay...), "Tangled", "The Sun" che ci fanno capire come l'originalità e la classe siano due termini che sono completamente assenti nel vocabolario del gruppo losangelino.
Di per sé il sound della band non sarebbe malvagio ascoltandolo attentamente, non fosse che in 46 minuti di musica, almeno 30-35 sono praticamente tutti uguali, a tratti sembra addirittura di ascoltare la stessa traccia...
Viene assolutamente spontaneo pensare che questo gruppo sia venuto alla ribalta più per far contenti casa discografica, tv musicali e radio più che per fare musica di qualità e mettere in evidenza le proprie doti musicali. In questo disco qualcosa c'è, ma è proprio "qualcosa". 2 brani su 12 ascoltabili non sono una buona media per un disco che in Italia è disco d'oro, ma comunque delle classifiche di vendita nostrane non mi stupisco più, la situazione peggiora di anno in anno...
Elenco tracce testi samples e video
01 Harder to Breathe (02:53)
How dare you say that my behavior's unacceptable
So condescending, unnecessarily critical
I have the tendency of getting very physical
So watch your step cause if I do you'll need a miracle
You drain me dry and make me wonder why I'm even here
This double vision I was seeing is finally clear
You want to stay but you know very well I want you gone
Not fit to funkin' tread the ground that I am walking on
When it gets cold outside and you got nobody to love
You'll understand what I mean when I say
There's no way we're gonna give up
And like a little girl cries in the face of a monster that lives in her dreams
Is there anyone out there cause it's getting harder and harder to breathe
Is there anyone out there cause it's getting harder and harder to breathe
What you are doing is screwing things up inside my head
You should know better you never listened to a word I said
Clutching your pillow and writhing in a naked sweat
Hoping somebody someday will do you like I did
When it gets cold outside and you got nobody to love
You'll understand what I mean when I say
There's no way we're gonna give up
And like a little girl cries in the face of a monster that lives in her dreams
Is there anyone out there cause it's getting harder and harder to breathe
Is there anyone out there cause it's getting harder and harder to breathe
Does it kill
Does it burn
Is it painful to learn
That it's me that has all the control
Does it thrill
Does it sting
When you feel what I bring
And you wish that you had me to hold
When it gets cold outside and you got nobody to love
You'll understand what I mean when I say
There's no way we're gonna give up
And like a little girl cries in the face of a monster that lives in her dreams
Is there anyone out there cause it's getting harder and harder to breathe
Is there anyone out there cause it's getting harder and harder to breathe
02 This Love (03:37)
I was so high I did not recognize
The fire burning in her eyes
The chaos that controlled my mind
Whispered "good-bye" as she got on a plane
Never to return again but always in my heart
This love has taken its toll on me
She said good-bye too many times before
And her heart is breaking in front of me
I have no choice, cause I won't say goodbye anymore
I tried my best to feed her appetite
Keep her coming every night
So hard to keep her satisfied
Kept playing love like it was just a game
Pretending to feel the same
Then turn around and leave again, but uh-oh
This love has taken its toll on me
She said good-bye too many times before
And her heart is breaking in front of me
I have no choice, cause I won't say good-bye anymore
I'll fix these broken things, repair your broken wings
And make sure everything's all right
(It's all right, it's all right)
My pressure on your hips, I'm sinking my fingertips
Into every inch of you
Cause I know that's what you want me to do
This love has taken its toll on me
She said good-bye too many times before
Her heart is breaking in front of me
I have no choice, cause I won't say good-bye anymore
This love has taken its toll on me
She said good-bye too many times before
My heart is breaking in front of me
I have no choice, cause I won't say good-bye anymore
This love has taken its toll on me
She said goodbye too many times before
Her heart is breaking in front of me
But I have no choice, cause I won't say goodbye anymore
03 Shiver (02:59)
You build me up
You knock me down
Provoke a smile
And make me frown
You are the queen of runaround
You know it's true
You chew me up
And spit me out
Enjoy the taste
I leave in your mouth
You look at me
I look at you
Neither of us know what to do
There may not
Be another way to your heart
So I guess I'd better find a new way in
I shiver when I hear your name
Think about you but it's not the same
I won't be satisfied 'til I'm under your skin
Immobilized by the thought of you
Paralyzed by the sight of you
Hypnotized by the words you say
Not true but I believe 'em anyway
So come to bed It's getting late
There's no more time for us to waste
Remember how my body tastes
You feel your heart begin to race
There may not
Be another way to your heart
So I guess I'd better find a new way in
I shiver when I hear your name
Think about you but it's not the same
I won't be satisfied 'til I'm under your skin
Feel your heart begin to race!
There may not
Be another way to your heart
So I guess I'd better find a new way in
And I shiver when I hear your name
Think about you but it's not the same
I won't be satisfied 'til I'm under your skin
There may not
Be another way to your heart
So I guess I'd better find a new way in
And I shiver when I hear your name
Think about you but it's not the same
I won't be satisfied 'til I'm under your skin
05 Tangled (03:17)
I'm full of regret
For all the things that I have done and said
And I don't know if it'll ever be ok to show
My face around here
Sometimes I wonder if I disappear
Would you ever turn your head and look
See if I'm gone
Cause I fear
There is nothing left to say to you
That you wanna hear
That you wanna know
I think I should go
The things I've done are way too shameful
You're just an innocent
A helpless victim of a spider's web
And I'm an insect
Going after anything that I can get
So you better turn your head and run
and don't look back
Cause I fear
There is nothing left to say to you
That you wanna hear
That you wanna know
I think I should go
The things I've done are way too shameful
And I've done you so wrong
Treated you bad
Strung you along
Oh, shame on myself
I don't know how I got so tangled up
You better turn your head and look
See if I'm gone
Cause I fear
There is nothing left to say to you
That you wanna hear
That you wanna know
I think I should go
The things I've done are way too shameful
And I've done you so wrong
Treated you bad
Strung you along
Oh, shame on myself
I don't know how I got so tangled up
(tangled!)
[And I've done you so wrong
Treated you bad
Strung you along
Oh, shame on myself
I don't know how I got so tangled up]
06 The Sun (04:13)
After school, walkin' home
Fresh dirt under my fingernails and
I can smell hot asphalt
Cars screech to a halt to let me pass
And I cannot remember
What life was like through photographs
And trying to recreate images life gives us from our past
And sometimes it's a sad song
But I
Cannot forget, refuse to regret
So glad I met you and
Take my breath away
Make everyday
Worth all of the pain that I've gone through
And mama, I've been cryin'
Cause things ain't how they used to be
She said, the battle's almost won
And we're only several miles from the sun
And I'm movin' on, down my street
I see people I won't ever meet
I think of her, take a breath
Feel the beat in the rhythm of my steps
And sometimes it's a sad song
But I
Cannot forget, refuse to regret
So glad I met you and
Take my breath away,
Make everyday
Worth all of the pain that I've gone through
And mama, I've been cryin'
Cause things ain't how they used to be
She said, the battle's almost won
And we're only several miles from the sun
Rhythm of the conversation
The perfection of her creation
The sex she slipped into my coffee
The way she felt when she first saw me
Hate to love and love to hate her
Like a broken record player
Back and forth and here and gone
And on and on and on and on!
I cannot forget, refuse to regret
So glad I met you and
Take my breath away,
Make everyday,
Worth all of the pain that I've gone through
And mama, I've been cryin'
Cause things ain't how they used to be
She said, the battle's almost won
And we're only several miles
Said, the battle's almost won
And we're only several miles from the sun
08 Sunday Morning (04:04)
Sunday morning, rain is falling
Steal some covers, share some skin
Clouds are shrouding us in moments unforgettable
You twist to fit the mold that I am in
But things just get so crazy,
Living life gets hard to do
And I would gladly hit the road, get up and go if I knew
That someday it would lead me back to you
That someday it would lead me back to you
That may be all I need
In darkness she is all I see
Come and rest your bones with me
Driving slow on Sunday morning
And I never want to leave
Fingers trace your every outline
Paint a picture with my hands
Back and forth we sway like branches in a storm
Change the weather still together when it ends
That may be all I need
In darkness she is all I see
Come and rest your bones with me
Driving slow on Sunday morning
And I never want to leave
But things just get so crazy living life gets hard to do
Sunday morning rain is falling and I'm calling out to you
Singing someday it'll bring me back to you, yeah
Find a way to bring myself back home to you
You may not know
That may be all I need
In darkness she is all I see
Oh, come and rest your bones with me
Driving slow, driving slow (all I need, all I see)
oh yeah yeah oh yeah yeah oh yeah yeah (bones with me)
I'm a flower in your hair
yeah yeah, yeah yeah
09 Secret (04:56)
Watch the sunrise
Say your goodbyes
Off we go
Some conversation
No contemplation
Hit the road
Car overheats
Jump out of my seat
On the side of the highway, baby
Our road is long
Your hold is strong
Please don't ever let go, oh no
I know I don't know you
But I want you so bad
Everyone has a secret
Oh, can they keep it?
Oh no, they can't
I'm driving fast now
Don't think I know how to go slow
Where you at now
I feel around
There you are
Cool these engines
Calm these jets
I ask you how hot can it get
And as you wipe off beads of sweat
Slowly you say, I'm not there yet
I know I don't know you
But I want you so bad
Everyone has a secret
Oh, can they keep it?
Oh no, they can't
I know I don't know you
But I want you so bad
Everyone has a secret
Oh, but can they keep it?
Oh no, they can't
11 Woman (04:04)
If I be so inclined to climb up beside you,
Would you tell me that the time just isnt right?
And if I ever find the key you hide so well,
Will you tell me that I can spend the night?
Leavin your smell on my coat, leavin your taste on my shoulder.
I still fail to understand what it is about this woman.
If I could bottle up the chills that you give me
I would keep them in a jar next to my bed.
And If I should ever draw a picture of a woman
It is you that would come flowing from my pen
Leavin your clothes on the floor, Making me walk out the door
And I still fail to understand what it is about this woman.
Helplessly melting as I stand next to the sun.
As she burns me, I am screaming out for more
Drink every drop of liquid heat that I've become.
Pop me open, spoon me out on to the floor.
leavin your smell on my coat, leavin your taste on my shoulder,
I still fail to understand, fail to understand
leavin your smell on my coat, leavin your taste on my shoulder.
I still fail to understand what it is about this woman.
12 Sweetest Goodbye (04:33)
Where you are seems to be as far as an eternity
Outstretched arms, open hearts,
If it never ends, then when do we start?
I'll never leave you behind,
Or treat you unkind
I know you understand
And with a tear in my eye
Give me the sweetest goodbye
That I ever did receive
Pushing forward and arching back
Bring me closer to heart attack
Say goodbye and just fly away
When you come back,
I have something to say
How does it feel to know you'll never have to be alone
When you get home?
There must be someplace here that only you and I could go
So I can show you how I..
Dream away everyday
Try so hard to disregard
The rhythm of the rain that drops
And coincides with the beating of my heart
I'll never leave you behind,
Or treat you unkind
I know you understand
And with a tear in my eye
Give me the sweetest goodbye
That I ever ever ever did receive
How does it feel to know you'll never have to be alone
When you get home?
There must be someplace here that only you and I could go
So I can show you how I feel
How does it feel to know you'll never have to be alone
When you get home?
There must be someplace here that only you and I could go
So I can show you how I feel.. feel.. feel.. feel
16 Ragdoll (05:28)
How ya feelin?
The day has had its way with both of us
And no, Ive gone out of my way
But I'm not free
From this pain Im reelin
I was a fool to think some day you would come around
But no no no I'm not thinking that way
Cause now I see
You are not what you seem
You are a mystery to me
Sometimes I just wana scream
I think you should just go away cause
Theres no neccesity for you to stay and
Next time you come around my way
Forget it baby your not comin in
Hows your day been?
Cause mine has taken strange and ugly turns
But no no no I feel better today
Cause Im off my knees
You are not what you seem
You are a mystery to me
Sometimes I just wana scream
I think you should just go away cause
Theres no neccesity for you to stay and
Next time you come around my way
Forget it baby your not comin in
A heart made for a lot of sorrow
No you cant come back tomorrow
Shut my windows, lock my doors
Cause my heart won't be your rag doll anymore
Yeah....
I think you should just go away cause
Theres no neccesity for you to stay and
Next time you come around my way
Forget it baby your not comin in
A heart made for a lot of sorrow
No you cant come back tomorrow
Shut my windows, lock my doors
Cause my heart won't be your rag doll anymore
whoa....
Cause my heart wont be your Rag Doll anymore!
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"Shiver e Tangled sono state (e lo sono) veramente penose!!!!"
"I Maroon 5 non si meritavano di salire a quei livelli, sono solo dei cocainomani che barattano le donne per l'eroina!"
