

There was no sort of grand sort of scheme or anything. 'I always offered that with a caveat that we never really know what's going to happen until we get in there and sort of start really fighting (through) the creative process.


'That's my own fault for opening my big mouth,” he said in a recent phone interview. Valentine good-naturedly said he's learning from speaking a bit too soon. Back around the start of 2016, as Maroon 5's musicians had started to turn their attention to doing a sixth album, guitarist James Valentine told some interviewers he thought the band might return to a sound along the lines of the band's 2002 debut album, 'Songs About Jane.”īut instead of returning to the old-school organic, guitar-based soul-pop of that album, Maroon 5 made its most modern, synthetic sounding electro-pop-styled release yet with 2017's 'Red Pill Blues.”
