When Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera wrote “Moves Like Jagger,” the band developed a sound and style of production that guarantees a certain level of chart success. Since 2012, the group has never strayed from its formula, releasing single after single, album after album, beating the sound relentlessly into obliteration. The band’s latest, Jordi, is an album full of radio-ready pop, beats too timid to push the most lenient of boundaries, contrived collaborations to rack up streams and irritating, repetitive hooks.

Meant as a tribute to the band’s manager and Adam Levine’s longtime friend Jordan Feldstein, who died in 2017, lead single “Memories,” (which was released nearly two years go) is a decent effort and one just sweet enough to summon since emotion. At least it did its job. Because though heartfelt, the vagueness of the tribute on the rest of Jordi and the years-long promotional campaign makes it feel like more of a tribute to the success Maroon 5 found in the 2010s that’s unlikely to be replicated this decade.

Opening track “Beautiful Memories” features Megan Thee Stallion and an extremely repetitive, instrumentally indistinct pop beat. Lyrics like “Nah-nah-nah, in my head/ Nah-nah-nah, in my bed” in the post-chorus are listless and annoying. The Grammy-winning rapper and blackbear’s production help hold the song together and give it much-needed energy. However, after a few plays it no longer even feels like Levine and Megan Thee Stallion ever spoke before recording their respective verses. There’s no chemistry between them.

That’s just the beginning of the unnecessary collaborations with the biggest names of the 2020s. In fact, the standard edition of the album has seven features and only four songs that are solely Maroon 5. This would be fine if there were any musical magic being conjured. Instead, they sound like the band simply looked up a list of the most-streamed artists of the last two years and reached out requesting duets.

“Can’t Leave You Alone” features Juice WRLD, whose death in 2019 rocketed the young, talented rapper to posthumously having one of the year’s best-selling albums. Nipsey Hussle, whose death in 2019 memorialized the rapper’s contributions to both music and charity, is featured on “Memories Remix,” also with YG. Despite the album’s inherent intent to be a tribute to those passed, these tracks fail to respect their legacies and feel like cheap grabs for streams.

There’s “Convince Me Otherwise” with Vallejo’s H.E.R. (who’s having an EGOT-worthy 2021), a slightly R&B-influenced track, where a slightly rounded-out beat makes it actually the most tolerable on the album. However, “Remedy” with Stevie Nicks is a dreadful collaboration. It doesn’t leave any room for the artist’s vocals to work together and relegates Nicks to sounding like a background singer. It’s AutoTuned and pointless.

The few songs with vocals where Adam Levine gets to prove his mettle alone are weighed down by the same basic beats and bad lyrics. “Lost” is album filler. “Lost, I was lost, I was lost ’til you loved me/ Now I’m found, now I’m found, now I’m found,” Levine sings on the chorus. There’s not much depth to those lyrics. “Seasons,” with half-rapped verses, features a long chorus that just simply repeats, while on “Lovesick,” another boring post-chorus, is entirely forgotten by the start of the next song. “You got me lovesick (Yeah) / But I love it,” he sings.

It almost feels like a slap in the face to learn there’s a deluxe version with Jason Derulo’s “Lifestyle” that features Levine, and can only be described as out of style, and “Button” with Anuel AA and Tainy. The reggaeton styles of rap and trap of the artists are hardly even blended with the pop.

It’s a shame the band that debuted with sunny, genuine, feel-good pop tracks like “Sunday Morning” and “She Will Be Loved” has fallen into the void of recycled beats and cookie-cutter production. It’s not a criticism of the talent but of the band’s drive to push sound and style. Maroon 5 has plenty of good songs, but unfortunately, none on this album.

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