Ok, This BS Has To Stop!!!!!

1. Adam is a goodlooking guy so they automatically equate him with a boyband. Adam can't help or do anything about the genes that his parents passed on to him. People need to get off that !profanity! = poop. Adam also can't help that people like to talk about him in the tabloids. It's out of his control.

2. I was at Heshey and A LOT of people left after Maroon 5 finished their set.

3. Maroon 5's fanbase isn't 13 to 21 year old girls. The first 5 or 6 rows were all VERY GROWN(25 to 50+) people.

4. In the first 2 rows, there were 4 guys(1 40 or 50 year old, 3 30+ guy, 3 straight and 1 gay(me)) singing louder and harder than any of the females up there.

5. The reviewer is obviously a fan of Counting Crows and not Maroon 5.

6. Adam didn't even talk that much. He sang more and danced more which is what you are suppose to do at a concert.

7. He played with the audience. He kept getting the audience involved.

8. The only thing that seemed rehearsed was their musicianship which it is because they have to practice to learn the songs.

9. Maroon 5 has always given me a great concert.

10. Lastly, you know why the Counting Crows has to go out with Maroon 5 because not that many people would come see their @sses in an amphitheatre type setting. The reason you get two names like this to come together is to get more people to come out as well as introduce different people to different groups that they might have looked over or wouldn't listen to. The Counting Crows aren't reinventing anything. There's nothing new under the sun. There are plenty of bands that have done the same thing and played the same types of music before and after the Counting Crows. Don't get me wrong, I love the Counting Crows and I love Maroon 5, too. I'm a 33 year old black male. Do I sound like a damn screaming teen girl from 13 to 21? NO!!

IT'S CALLED MARKETING OLE DUMB !profanity! REVIEWER/CRITIC!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another thing, just because you look good doesn't mean that you are not talented. Also, ugly doesn't make you more talented. Lastly, I can't stand the comparisons between "young" and "old". Every concert that I've ever been to and I've been to a very diverse group of concerts; teens AREN'T the only ones that are screaming. You have young people screaming, old people screaming, girls screaming, drunk people screaming, black people, white people, latinos, etc.

So, Maroon 5 isn't just some "teen" band that people can dismiss because they are goodlooking, make pop hits, are played on the radio, and happen to come out in the 2000s decade.

THEY ARE GREAT BECAUSE ADAM HAS A VOICE THAT FITS IN WITH ROCK, POP, AND R&B. THEY ARE GREAT BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE QUINTESSENTIAL ROCK INSTRUMENTS IN THEIR GROUP; THE GUITAR(JAMES) AND THE DRUMS(MATT). THEY ARE GREAT BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE SOULFUL VIBE OF THE KEYBOARD(JESSE) AND THE BASS GUITAR(MICKEY). THEY ARE GREAT BECAUSE THEY ARE SOOOOOOOO VERSATILE. THEY ARE GREAT BECAUSE THEY HAVE THAT EXTRA IT FACTOR(SEX APPEAL, ARROGANCE, HUMILITY, HUMBLENESS, PERSONALITY, ETC ROLLED INTO THE MUSIC AS WELL).

So, don't write a review of them when you have already dismissed them before you've even seen the damn show. The Hershey show was great. I know because I left the show drenched in sweat with a huge smile on my face and an ache in my legs from all the dancing. The show moved along at a great pace. It slowed down enough to get cozy with a love one and ended on a great high note.

It's fine if you don't like them because you aren't into pop or rock music or soul music. BUT DON'T COME OUT YOUR !profanity! WITH SOME !profanity! ABOUT WHY YOU DON'T LIKE THEM WHEN THE REASONS YOU LIST AREN'T EVEN TRUE!!!!!!!!
We ALL derive from something. There's nothing new under the sun. You are just biased. You are coming off like the Counting Crows are living up to some righteous band code. The Counting Crows have 14 years of touring experience on Maroon 5. They better seem more experienced and polished. If not, then they are doing something wrong. I felt I had to say something because a lot of critics are just looking at M5 on the surface. You need to read the lyrics and pay attention. You will see that what you're saying is TOTALLY UNTRUE.
A derivative top 40 band my !profanity!!!! The same thing can be said for Counting Crows back in the 90s. You are trippin!!!



"Not a bad band, mind you. Maroon 5 can lock in a tight soul groove and stay there. It's just that hit after hit — "This Love," "Harder to Breathe," "Sunday Morning," "All I Need" — anyone with open ears over 30 wonders where they have heard these tunes before. Prince? Terrance Trent D'Arby? Morris Day? Maybe Jamiraqui?"
Yeah, I hear influences from those people in their music. It's not a bad thing. We all have influences. You don't think I hear influences and that I'm not reminded of other people when I hear Counting Crows? Man, you need to lay off the pipe. You are just being ridiculous and bias. I'm not some angry fanatic fan, either. It just annoys me when people make a lot of the statments that you've made in the article. I wonder how you view society and do you just box people in the way you are doing these bands. It's quite sad.