JORDI

Maroon 5 - JORDI
Critic Score
Based on 13 reviews
2021 Ratings: #753 / 753
User Score
Based on 824 ratings
2021 Rank: #1049
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CRITIC REVIEWS

60
AllMusic
Levine and company aren't the focus here, they're the connective tissue on a softly amorphous album that sounds entirely like latter-day Maroon 5 without ever quite seeming to belong to them.
60
NME

Often ‘Jordi’ ends up sounding like the confusing city centre all-you-can-eat buffets that attempt to serve up nearly every kind of cuisine imaginable.

50
Rolling Stone

Whether it’s trying to be light, serious, or somewhere in the middle, Jordi can only get it done in half-measures.

50
Clash

Continual evolutions has pushed them away from their roots, feeling less like a band and more like a committee, marking out different strategies without truly owning one themselves.

47
Pitchfork

Maroon 5’s seventh album sets out to experiment beyond their comfort zone. It sounds like a band trying desperately to appeal to as many markets as possible.

40
The Guardian

It’s booming business as usual: success by dint of giving people exactly what they expect, that makes you wonder whether people should expect more from pop.

40
The Independent

There’s something fascinating about the way Maroon 5’s music continues to slither into the charts. In a way it’s representative of Maroon 5 themselves: ubiquitous, but irrelevant.

40
Evening Standard

Auto-Tuned vocals and a long parade of big name guest vocalists make this sound like a band without clear identity.

30
The Young Folks

Contrary to what Levine says here, Jordi doesn’t feel like a musical challenge. It doesn’t feel like great music that will stand the test of time. It feels like an album that is riding in the slipstream of what is popular right now.

29
Paste
On JORDI, Maroon 5 present the apocalypse of true mediocrity—a flaccid smattering of pop trends that have long since passed and melodies so transparently halfhearted, it barely sounds like a person even made them.
20
Sputnikmusic

Now, you don't need me to tell you this album is terrible for you to know that it is, which is a testament to Maroon 5's ineptitude for the past decade. Even while keeping that in mind, this is worse than whatever you're imagining. Let that sink in for a moment, then continue reading.

20
The Arts Desk

In some senses the emptiness of it all is genuinely harrowing – almost impressively so: the sort of thing that JG Ballard-loving avant gardists strain to articulate. But mainly it’s just not very good.

15
Spectrum Culture

Another in a line of Maroon 5’s creative bankruptcy despite being dedicated to their late manager, JORDI barely feels like an album; It sounds more like a financial scheme dressed up as heartless pop.

BradTasteMusic
12

That juice world feature was so fucking tasteless and disconnected from reality. Like you are really going to have a line about him talking about death in his feature and just say "fuck it?"

Not a single good song. Lifeless project watered down to purely nothing. Maroon 5 use features like augments to songs. They buy the feature, water them down so mom's can recognize them and say "oh my kid says they are cool" and it breaks my soul.

BaddieBaphomet
10

The new Maroon 5 album “JORDI” sucks.

It doesn’t offend me, upset me, frustrate me, anger me, or anything like that - the only reaction I get from Maroon 5 is a hard eye roll and the phrase “this sucks.” There’s really no critique or clever insight or deep analysis that’s needed to get to properly review this album. That probably comes across like a base level, immature, shallow take, but there’s no other real description that comes to mind when ... read more

Musicnerdd
0

And still linkin park gets more hate than this guys

Maroon 5's new lp "jordi" is a complete disaster (how surprising). This is not even funny anymore. The amount of cringiness and horrible vocals and lyrics is offensive like they're literally mocking their fans.

P.S. : hey adam here's a pencil. Go home, write some shit, and don't come back until something dope hits you. Fuck it, you can take the mic home with you 🎤

TheZetaCoreYT
16

If I hear Memories again I may just die.

Average Score: 25/100
Overall Score: 16/100

Favorites: Beautiful Mistakes, Lost
Least Favorites: everything else

Paleblooded
20

Maroon 5 Project # 7

Finally.....this Maroon 5 discography dive is done. Um; As much as I enjoyed Red Pill Blues, Jordi is borderline unlistenable. Production is okay? I guess? and Track 1 is the only kind of serviceable song with a fun cadence. Adam does some of the most questionable vocal performances I've ever heard from him at this point, the album is insanely Tik Tok coded, and Memories was literally structured for "self insert yourself rapping/singing" here; It's overly cringe, ... read more

kindestnatlala
15

I could make an argument on previous 3 albums that there were somewhat elements of a band left, but not for Jordi. Fully commercialised and is essentially a collection of inferior pop songs that they borrowed from. This sucks.

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Track List

1Beautiful Mistakes
3:47
39
2Lost
2:52
42
3Echo
2:58
feat. blackbear
30
4Lovesick
3:05
31
5Remedy
2:29
31
6Seasons
2:48
25
7One Light
3:34
feat. Bantu
26
8Convince Me Otherwise
3:07
with H.E.R.
42
9Nobody's Love
3:31
35
10Can't Leave You Alone
3:16
25
11Memories
3:09
29
12Memories (Remix)
3:09
22
Total Length: 37 minutes
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Added on: April 29, 2021