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.
Whether it’s trying to be light, serious, or somewhere in the middle, Jordi can only get it done in half-measures.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Auto-Tuned vocals and a long parade of big name guest vocalists make this sound like a band without clear identity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 🎤
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
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
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.
1 | Beautiful Mistakes 3:47 with Megan Thee Stallion | 39 |
2 | Lost 2:52 | 42 |
3 | Echo 2:58 feat. blackbear | 30 |
4 | Lovesick 3:05 | 31 |
5 | Remedy 2:29 feat. Stevie Nicks | 31 |
6 | Seasons 2:48 | 25 |
7 | One Light 3:34 feat. Bantu | 26 |
8 | Convince Me Otherwise 3:07 with H.E.R. | 42 |
9 | Nobody's Love 3:31 | 35 |
10 | Can't Leave You Alone 3:16 feat. Juice WRLD | 25 |
11 | Memories 3:09 | 29 |
12 | Memories (Remix) 3:09 feat. Nipsey Hussle, YG | 22 |