Maroon 5 - Tracking an artist

Maroon 5 is an American rock band from L.A. - California. While they were in high school, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Adam Levine, keyboardist Jesse Carmichael, bassist Mickey Madden, and drummer Ryan Dusick formed a garage band called Kara's Flowers and released one album in 1997. They reformed, with guitarist James Valentine, and pursued a new direction as Maroon 5. The first track they debuted was "This Love" and was written by front man Adam Levine.



The music video for "This Love" was directed by Sophie Muller. The video combines performance footage from the band in a courtyard and scenes of Adam Levine parting ways with a woman. The music video for "This Love" also features Levine and his then-girlfriend, model Kelly McKee, in a few intimate scenes. The video used creative camera angles, thereby causing upset or harm. The top picture is the uncensored version of the video showing the intimate scenes between Adam Levine and his girlfriend. The bottom picture is the censored version where you see the computer generated flowers that cover up the scene for the viewers and conservative markets.

The next video is "She Will Be Loved". Once again the video is directed by Sophie Muller.Maroon 5's She will be loved is a mixture of narrative and performance based.
The video is about Adam Levine - The main singer; who is having an affair with his girlfriends mother. The genre of the track is pop rock and the video was released in July 2004. The mise en scene of the video focuses on the narrative and tells the story of the main singer and the woman he is in love with. The video is in colour but some shots are in black and white to show he is reminiscing and to show the past.




A different video with Maroon 5 can be seen through "Wake Up Call" the track was leaked in May 2007 and the video does contain narrative and performance scenes like the rest of thier videos but this video is set as if it was a trailer for a movie. The video shows Adam Levine girlfriend in the video asking for his forgiveness as she has cheated on him. As he walks in on her cheating on him with another man he shoots the other man and then the rest of the video is Adam and his girlfriend trying to cover up the murder and running around town. In the end, the entire band is captured and in the last scene of the video, Adam is given the electric chair.