By Courtney E. Smith
For the “Maps” music video, Maroon 5 tell us a story in reverse. Interestingly, it’s the story of a cheating cad as played by Adam Levine.
On its most surface level, this is a video depicting a series of bad choices that lead to the worst possible outcome. That in itself is an engaging enough intellectual exercise, offering a new spin on the “in-reverse” theme for music videos that doesn’t take it down the same road as Coldplay‘s literally in-reverse video for “The Scientist” or Grouplove‘s “Tongue Tied.” Here it is the story line that is done in reverse.
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The concept becomes much more salacious, however, when one factors in real-life cues referenced in the video — for example, Levine’s recent (and recently denied) apology calls to all of his ex-girlfriends in advance of his engagement.
True or untrue, the man he plays in this video rolls right into the public perception of him as a bad boy/bad boyfriend.
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