★★★★★
Release Date: May 22 2007 Oh, Maroon 5, how the mighty have fallen. You once were a great pop-rock/funk band that were something special, especially for being on the radio. Now, however, you're a rather run of the mill pop "band." I can't even call you a band anymore, because I don't even hear any instruments half the time. I will admit, though, that 2012's Overexposed wasn't a terrible record, but it wasn't a good record, either...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-09-02
★★★★★
Adam Levine and company have blatantly and unapologetically embraced pop music's current mainstream sensibilities on Maroon 5's recently released Overexposed, with polarizing results. The band's newest album is likely to alienate longtime followers and music snobs alike, but will undoubtedly excite newer fans who embraced their massive smash hit "Moves Like Jagger," which is the crowd this record clearly aims towards...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Maroon 5 is one of those groups that I either love or hate, depending on which song I hear. When I first heard their first single, "Harder to Breathe," a decade ago, I loved them. It was funky. (Sorry for the white boy terminology.) It friggin' rocked. Then I heard "This Love." Not as great, but still pretty decent. Their next single would suck the life out of me. "She Will Be Loved" sounded like something the Backstreet Boys (still sort of relevant at the time) would sing...
- www.ink19.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
Overexposed is, perhaps a rather apt title for Maroon 5?s 4th studio album, which (also rather aptly) arrives 5 years on from their 1st (and best) album, All About Jane. When I first heard Maroon 5, I found them quite likable. Although they were clearly just a commercial pop outfit, they had at the same time carved a nice little niche for themselves as a kind of funk-rock-commercial-pop band. Which was rather nice...
- www.music-news.com
2012-07-26
★★★★★
It's truly amazing to think that there was a time when Maroon 5 were not considered pop enough. However, that's exactly what happened in 2002 when the young, Adam Levine-fronted band known as Maroon 5 turned in their first post-Kara's Flowers album, Songs About Jane, to their label, who insisted that they didn't hear a single in the batch...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-07-12
★★★★★
In what seemed like an overnight miracle, Maroon 5 found a clever, ingenious way to reinvent themselves after suffering from poor record sales embarrassment after the Robert "Mutt" Lange-produced Hands All Over failed to repeat the job performance of It Won't Be Soon Before Long. Hands All Over was a pretty damn good record, despite what some other critics claimed...
- www.soultracks.com
2012-07-09
★★★★★
If ever the influence of a single song was writ large over an entire album then it is with Maroon 5's fourth album Overexposed. 2011's mega hit Moves Like Jagger rejuvenated the band's career and returned them to the upper reaches of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. It is that song's highly successful template that the band have now taken as the basis for Overexposed...
- www.musicomh.com
2012-07-02
★★★★★
Sound: If (like me) you thought that it was virtually impossible for an act as shamelessly commercial as Maroon 5 to "sell out", think again. Maroon 5 weren't too content (to say the least) with the tepid commercial reception of their third album "Hands All Over" (which also went platinum, by the way) - it was a creamy-smooth blend of pop, rock, soul/funk that perfectly encapsulated their character as an organic self-contained pop band (in my opinion, it's still their best album yet)...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-07-02
★★★★★
Overexposed seems a particularly apt title for this Maroon 5 album, given the amount of worldwide airplay Moves Like Jagger has had over the last twelve months (it has sold around 8 million copies as of June 2012). Included on some formats of this new album, the track has been dominating airwaves and its slick slice of modern pop unsurprisingly shapes the sound of the band?s fourth album...
- www.music-news.com
2012-07-02
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