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.

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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Brad Taste

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

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

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Musicnerdd

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 🎤

Docky

Maroon 5 are the fucking white noise equivalent of pop music.

They've become the perfect example of a "used to like them back before they sold out" band because nobody can really deny that they sold out and that even worse than that, they got so much fucking worse after selling out. But okay who cares?

It's just another obligatory maroon 5 album to cash in on whatever trend is/was popular this year and the year beforehand...and this time the trend they're jumping on is *drum ... read more