Adam Levine is 'sad' that bands are 'a dying breed' in modern music
Maroon 5 is still going strong, dropping a new single featuring Megan Thee Stallion on Wednesday, but frontman Adam Levine wants more company at the top.
"I feel like there aren’t any bands anymore, you know?" Levine told Zane Lowe for Apple Music (h/t Stereogum). "That’s the thing that makes me kind of sad, is that there were just bands. There’s no bands anymore, and I feel like they’re a dying breed. ... I mean, there still are plenty of bands, and maybe they’re not in the limelight quite as much, or in the pop limelight, but I wish there could be more of those around."
Levine is right that bands aren't as prevalent in the same way as in 2002 when Maroon 5's Songs About Jane, which has gone on to sell over five million copies, debuted. However, there is an argument to be made against bands as a dying breed, considering one of the most dominant acts in the world is K-pop boy band BTS.
At any rate, Maroon 5 continued to do its part on behalf of pop bands with Wednesday's "Beautiful Mistakes":
The three-time Grammy-winning group also recently released singles "Memories" (2019) and "Nobody's Love" (2020). Their last album was 2017's Red Blue Pills, the sixth studio album in a discography including Hands All Over (2010) and V (2014). Levine has kept busy individually, too—featured as a solo artist on Jack Harlow's "Same Guy" and Jason Derulo's "Lifestyle."
Maroon 5 will embark on tour this summer after dates were postponed last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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