Here the singer is comparing his dancing skills with Mick Jaggers. The song is up for Record of the Year against Lizzo, H.E.R. Malone and Lee, with the help of a few others, wrote the song for the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse soundtrack. Schedule is clear.ĪL: Um.how bout I get back to you. One of the writers of Maroon 5's hit song 'Moves Like Jagger has 'ruined childhoods' by revealing that the song is not about dancing. In the above lines, the singer uses the simile in Ive got the moves like Jagger. Sunflower by Post Malone, featuring Swae Lee, hit the top of the Billboard charts last year and is nominated for two 2020 Grammys this year. Right?ĬA: I'm totally available!! Nothing else going on. I'd love to have you do it but I already aske Cee, I mean, Mr. ĪL: Does that ring a bell?Ĭee-Lo: You sound a lot like that chick on the Kanye song.ĪL: That's me!! Anyway, I was wondering if you wanted to do a collaboration.ĪL: Oh shit. We're "Maroon 5." Maybe you've heard of us.Ĭee-Lo: Listen, I gotta go do something better than have this conversation. Let me know when you get a record deal.ĪL: No, no, we have a deal. But what does it mean to have the moves like Jagger The video for this song offers a curious mlange of leeting shots that intercut vintage ilms of Jagger. I sit next to you on our show, NBC's "The Voice."ĪL: LOL!! Anyway, I was wondering if you wanted to do a song with my band.Ĭee-Lo: Sorry man.
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It is a brand of horribleness that it almost impossible to verbalize. Even if it's the same place the Goo Goo Dolls and Matchbox 20 go to find their songs, Maroon 5 didn't always completely suck.īut "Moves Like Jagger" is none of those things. The songs we catchy and, no matter your taste, came from a place of emotion. Their early songs had a strongly intriguing, domestic violence-y vibe that was made oddly comical due to their lead singer being roughly the size of a garden gnome. At best, it's a song built completely around an annoying whistle-melody thing. At worst, it's a pure money grab, a record company edict to pen a song to leverage whatever passes for popularity for Maroon 5. Music is supposed to be all those things.Īnd then there is "Moves Like Jagger." A song so bad that we just can't turn it off, lest we miss a chance to actively hate it. It's supposed to be a product of some creative process. It's supposed to come from a place that few ever get to, or at least feel comfortable enough to share what they find. It's supposed to be an expression of emotion or feeling or an experience. Music is supposed to come from somewhere deep within the writer's soul.