Blog: PopMatters

Alternately fascinating and frustrating, Overexposed shows the band truly excited for their big pop closeup, trying tons of new things and failing spectacularly about half the time. Worth a listen, but a classic this is not. It's truly amazing to think that there was a time when Maroon 5 were not considered pop enough. However, that's exactly what happened in 2002 when the young, Adam Levine-fronted band known as Maroon 5 turned in their first post-Kara's Flowers album, Songs About Jane, to their label, who insisted that they didn't hear a single in the batch. Upset and [...]