Maroon 5 Debuts ‘Maps’ Video
Maroon 5 released the official music video for their song “Maps” today on the official Maroon 5 YouTube channel.
“Maps” is a the lead single off Maroon 5’s upcoming fifth full-length album V. The video for the new Maroon 5 song premiered on MTV on Tuesday and made its way to the internet shortly after. You can watch the full Maroon 5 “Maps” video above.
As reported by MTV.com, “Maps” is one of Maroon 5’s darkest songs yet, especially when accompanied by the music video. The video puts Maroon 5’s front man Adam Levine in the leading role in a dramatic tale of love, loss and betrayal. The video opens with Adam racing into a hospital desperately seeking the emergency room. He finds his girlfriend unconscious on a hospital bed, hooked up to a respirator and covered in gaping wounds.
From there the Maroon 5 video takes us backwards through time. We see Adam’s girlfriend get violently struck by a car while Adam searches the streets for her. Another flashback brings us to a party scene to learn why his girlfriend walked off without him. She catches Adam kissing another girl, which causes her to leave the party angrily. From there the Maroon 5 video takes us back even earlier, when the happy couple was getting ready for the party. All of this drama is underscored by Maroon 5’s typical upbeat pop rock, gilded with Adam Levine’s famous tenor vocals.
Fans will be both heartbroken by the video and intrigued to see Maroon 5’s leading man try out his acting chops a bit. The beginning of the video has Adam Levine spouting off some spoken lines, and he does a pretty good job of sounding upset. You’ll have to watch the whole Maroon 5 video if you want to know how the story ends.
Maroon 5’s V featuring “Maps” will be available in stores on September through Interscope Records. Levine released the following statement about the new Maroon 5 LP, calling it an “all-encompassing kind of record.”
“This album is very much all over the place. There’s some stuff on our record that sounds a little like early Maroon 5, and then there’s some stuff that sounds like the newer direction that we went in. We thought we’d get back to certain elements that we’d been missing out on for a while with our original sound, but also bridge the gap with the new stuff that we’ve been doing. I think it’s an all-encompassing kind of record.”
