The Los Angeles-based alternative rock band, Maroon 5 have premiered the official video on MTV and VH1 for their new single "Misery," the first single from their upcoming third studio album, "Hands All Over," which was recorded in 2009 in Switzerland, and is scheduled to be released on September 21. The band's frontman suffers from various kind of violent plots in the freshly-released video and having to endure the attempts real-life girlfriend Anne Vyalitsyna made to kill him.The new tune "Misery," was released last week and hits radio airwaves, is pretty classic Maroon 5 with a rubber-band funk bassline, swinging beat and has frontman Adam Levine's rich, conversational vocals riding on top. Levine crooning about the agony of a dwindling, uncommunicative relationship. Like a lot of Maroon 5 jams, "Misery" is a buoyant, poppy affair that has a dark underbelly. "Misery" is about the dire straits Levine finds himself in when a relationship peters out. The falsetto-pleading, yet upbeat, peppy and keyboard-popping track, features a melodic chorus similar-sounding to their 2004 hit, "This Love." The single was exactly the kind of up tempo, falsetto-filled single we've come to expect and its beat may lead you to forget what the lyrical content is about.
If the song sounds like sunshine, the video will apparently be a little more stormy. The Joseph Kahn-directed music video, is surprisingly focuses on violence instead of sex, with the leading man is getting kicked, bitten, pushed, ran over and thrown around by the leading lady who attempting to kill her lover. "I thought [the concept] was really amazing," Levine explained to MTV News, "because it kind of turns the whole idea of the sexual energy between two people- a guy and a girl, a music video, you've seen that a million times - that exists in this video, but it's turning it on its ass and having the girl be the more domineering one who's trying to kill me." This video really takes interest of thew watcher because the lyrics of the song go well with it but in a creative way.
Grammy Award-winning band are veterans in the industry after so many years of mega hits. The mix of polished pop/rock and neo-soul sex appeal made Maroon 5 one of the most popular bands of the 2000s. Maroon 5 aren't the first band to fuse R&B and rock, but they certainly are one of the most convincing. One can almost hear Stevie Wonder's beaded braids clattering in time to their deep, funky grooves. At best, the band conjures up latter-day Motown, complete with a shuddering organ and hyperbolic vocals; at worst, they sound like a stylized boy band, with all the attendant close harmonies and dramatic pauses. But despite these musical schisms, Maroon 5 are a thoroughly engaging outfit, thanks to throbbing bass lines, hooky songs, and lead singer Levin's swaggering delivery.
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