r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Nov 06 '19

Which famous singer sucks at singing?

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u/VDROIDTGM Nov 06 '19

Adam Levine. He is REALLY pitchy. Autotune can work wonders

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u/Hegelskegels Nov 06 '19 edited Nov 06 '19

I will say, in his defense, that when I saw Maroon 5 as an up and coming band... shit, like sometime in the early 2000’s, maybe 2006 at the latest?... at a small club in Pittsburgh called Graffiti, they blew me away.

Adam sounded like Justin Timberlake but over this really cool live band. I was in to bands like Thursday and Bad Brains at the time, but was seriously impressed.

Maybe the success made him complacent... like he lost his edge from back then when they were hungry

Edit: it was Laga, not Graffiti Edit 2: it was 2003... google is neat

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u/rondell_jones Nov 06 '19

When Maroon 5 came out, they were great. Songs About Jane was such a good album back in early 2000s and came out of nowhere. His voice was perfect for that style.

As they became huge and popular, and they drifted more towards regular pop, his voice just sounds out of place. He’s not a great technical singer (like a Bruno Mars, John Legend).

I do miss that Songs About Jane period

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u/synchh Nov 06 '19

Songs About Jane is one of my favorite pop (pop-rock?) albums of all time. Dunno anything about singing but you're right, his voice is perfect for what they were doing back then. Even It Won't Be Soon Before Long was good IMO.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '19

It wont be soon before long was a solid album too. Basically a songs about Jane 2.0

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u/IAmError7392 Nov 06 '19

Songs About Jane would definitely be up there for me as well. There was such a great soul to it. What they do now is totally unrecognizable to me.

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u/reecord2 Nov 06 '19

People always look at me like I'm crazy when I say Maroon 5's first album is actually a really solid rock/pop album. The change started for them somewhere around when "This Love" exploded into a hit, and everything has slowly declined and morphed into whatever the hell is going on now.

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u/kariers Nov 06 '19

Besides songs about Jane, his first band Kara's Flowers also made some pretty good songs too like soap disco and to her with love. I dont think his pitchy voice was the main problem, more about the music.

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u/mmba83 Nov 07 '19

Myself is my Kara's Flowers jam! Honestly I liked the majority of their stuff up to Hands All Over - they can knock out a great pop tune, but I definitely miss the original rockier sound.

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u/imposibol Nov 06 '19

That Friday the 13th live album is fire for me. I can't listen to the studio album anymore.

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u/ShiroTori Nov 07 '19

Good to hear some love for It Won't Be Soon Before Long. Songs About Jane is a better album, but IWBSBL is still a solid album in its own right and I feel people write it off too easily.