I'll Pay for "Payphone"

TV judge Adam Levine rocks The Voice with his sharp taste and target tips, but that’s not the only talent he pulls out of his sleeve.  With summer hits on the horizon, music scouts don’t need to look further than Maroon 5’s newest album, Overexposed, which is expected to release on June 26.  Their sizzling single Payphone massively scooped up 493,000 digital downloads in its first week and the group's collaboration with Wiz Khalifa gives this song an edge that listeners keep on repeat.  Last year, Maroon 5’s summertime smash Moves Like Jagger marked their first top 10 single since Makes Me Wonder in 2007, so it will be interesting to watch Payphone as its hype expands in these beginning summer weeks.  Packaging a sugary pop beat, honest plus unique love lyrics and the growing popularity of Adam Levine makes it highly unlikely that this single won't hook anything but success.  Levine sculpts an artist with a distinctive and catchy voice, but the real secret to his raging success is his 150% genuineness.  Maroon 5 is great, but Levine gives listeners and viewers someone to respect.  Maybe he doesn’t rock wild colors in his hair like Nicki or pull off a 360 degree flip in his music videos like Chris Brown, but he does encourage kids suffering from ADHD to keep dreaming by appearing in OwnYourADHD.com commercials.  What’s even more amazing is that he consistently delivers lyrics in several love songs that always offer something different.  Flowing with striking lyrics that stream similar stories such as “It’s not always rainbows and butterflies/It’s compromise that moves us along” in She Will Be Loved; “So you say ‘Go, it isn't working’/ And I say ‘No, it isn't perfect’/ So I stay instead” in Never Gonna Leave This Bed; or “You say it’s too late to make it/ But is it too late to try” in his latest tune Payphone, Levine solos words that all lovers understand and remember.  Love unveils the universal reason people aspire to live and tops one of the more difficult things to verbally express, but not for Levine.  Paired with Maroon 5, he triumphantly puts a smile on his listeners' faces again and again regardless if they tell tales of happily-ever-after times or heartaches.  Delivering innovative and moving lyrics that capture the miraculous truth, sincerity and power of love, Maroon 5's songs like Payphone promise singles truly worth spending 99 cents on.