- 2025-07-19
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MUSIC
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Maroon 5 Releases New Song “California”
American pop rock band Maroon 5, consisting of Adam Levine (vocals/guitar), Jesse Carmichael (guitar), James Valentine (guitar), Matt Flynn (drums), PJ Morton (keyboards) and Sam Farrar (bass), released the third single “California” from their upcoming eighth studio album “Love Is Like” on July 17, 2025.
The song follows “Priceless” featuring South Korean girl group Blackpink's LISA and “All Night”.
The album is set to be released on August 15, 2025 via Interscope Records.
It was written by Adam Levine, Federico Vindver, and Natalie “Naliya” Salomon. Produce by Federico Vindver and Jacob Kasher Hindlin.
The band frontman Adam Levine told Zane Lowe of Apple Music about the song, “California is a really cool one, because we recorded it in the basement. And the vocal that you hear was recorded in kind of as it was being written. So the verses especially are very... I basically just like, and I did this on a lot of the album where it would be line by line. Usually we go back and do a million takes of a song. And then, 'okay, let's copy it,' you know, this works. And then, but all over dubs and make it shiny in fact. And literally, like you'll hear it, if you listen to the way the verses were done. I wasn't even sure what I was saying. And I was also a little bit insecure about what I was saying, because that happens a lot when you're writing, and you just make sounds more than you make words. And so, whatever you're hearing on the recording is, that's the first time that happened.”- The new album comprises 10 tracks, featuring guest appearances from LISA, Lil Wayne and Sexyy Red. produced by Adam Levine, Sam Farrar, Federico Vindver, JKash, and Noah Passovoy. It is their first album in four years since the 2021 album “Jordi”.
Adam Levine said of the album, “I feel like we've gone back to what we used to do, which is to not pay attention to where we fit and producing the music organically. This is kind of how we stuck out in the beginning when we first started our career.” - source : Apple Music
