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Tune of the (yester)Day: Maroon 5 - This Love // #Issue 32

'The funk-guitar led song, with a combinative bass-line and left-hand piano melody is a perfect balance for a talented vocalist to sing over'

by Huw Hopkins, June 15th, 2012 and has been Read 1167 times.
Last Edited by: Jack Stovin June 15th, 2012.

It was pop. Guitar pop. Guitar pop played by guys with long hair and beards. Guys that you’d imagine to be drinking in a grimey bar 6/7 nights of the week. Well, except for poster-child Adam Levine. The funk-guitar led song, with a combinative bass-line and left-hand piano melody is a perfect balance for a talented vocalist to sing over. It’s the timelessness of this perfect guitar pop song that makes you wonder when it became 10 years-old, but this year ‘This Love’ has celebrated it’s anniversary as are Maroon 5.

WATCH // Maroon 5 - 'This Love'

The Story

The narrative of the story was written about Adam Levine’s breakdown of his relationship with his then girlfriend. He wrote the lyrics as she was moving to a different city, however she still featured in the video, causing controversy as they were involved in intimate love scenes.



Maroon 5 have admitted to being inspired by Stevie Wonder’s music for ‘This Love’, and this proved important as the song went on to become the 3^rd most played song in 2004.

The song was originally released on Songs About Jane in 2002 but released as a single in 2004 and it reached #1 in Hungary, #2 in Canada and #3 in UK and US.