#5 A Look at Music Videos

Payphone - Maroon 5

When I first watched this video I cried, because I didn't think that it was possible for someone to look so good in a suit and tank top (is there a different word for mens tank tops?). I felt so bad when Adam had to leave that girl that looked like Taylor Swift (I'm just gonna call her Taylor Swift) behind like that. He grabbed the gun from that guys belt, dodged bullets from all the other bad guys plus the cops, and escaped the bank, just to save her. Then he stole a car (Wiz Khalifa's) so that they could escape together, but instead got into a high speed car chase, cornered by the cops (and I'm gonna say SWAT was there too because there was a helicopter), blew up one of the cop cars, escaped again, drove to someplace underneath a bridge, met up with Wiz Khalifa [who is apparently homeless (with a really nice car)?], blew up Wiz Khalifa's car, and dialed a payphone to call Taylor Swift after he left her squatting behind a car...shoeless, just to get no answer. How tragic D: That's okay though, more Adam for me :D nyehehe.

I think that the use of guns in the video represent oppression. And when Adam told Taylor Swift to take off her shoes, it represented how those shoes oppressed her feet (what were they? like three feet high?). When I listened to the song before the video came out, I thought the song was about a girl he left back home when he became famous. I never pictured that it would be about a man who became a fugitive to save a girl's life, when he could've just saved the girl, surrendered when they got out, explained the real story to the cops, and lived happily ever after. I guess it was all the action movies that were coming out that influenced the way this video turned out. Or maybe, Maroon 5 was just sick of cheesy music videos for love songs. Can we even call them Maroon 5? How about Adam Levine and 4 ugly guys nyhehe just kidding. Don't tell them I said that. Please.

But in all seriousness, I gotta say that even though the story line was bad (?) the song was good, and Adam Levine was goooOOoooOOooooOOOOd.