Maroon 5 talk new album
Maroon 5 talk new album
(source mtv.com
http://www.mtv.tv/mtv.tv/dynamo/shells/news.jhtml?article=30131067)
08 / 05 / 2006
As Maroon 5 finally start work on their second record, will Adam Levine be calling on recent collaborators such as Kanye West to return the favour?
"That was actually part of the contract," the singer deadpanned last week. "That's the only reason [I sang on West's 'Heard 'Em Say']. I was like, 'I'm not singing on your record unless you sing on mine'."
"Um, no," he stopped, killing his joke and switching to serious mode. "That's not why you do favours. You do them out of the goodness of your heart. You don't do them 'cause you want something else in return."
Levine said recent collaborations with Alicia Keys, the Ying Yang Twins and especially West inspired him and that's all he wants in return for now.
"We want to make ourselves our own separate entity. We don't want to have 800 guest stars, 'cause then that kind of blurs what we're doing," Levine explained. "We have the rest of our lives to collaborate with a lot of the wonderful people we've met, but as far as right now, I think getting ourselves to a point where we can stand alone is really important."
"Now's our time," Levine continued. "We've had this tremendous success but that's very fleeting, and now we want to show everybody that we can do great things. We've gotten their attention, so now it's time to prove it to them which we will do, I promise."
Maroon 5 began writing this summer, and are now compiling their ideas.
"We're amassing large amounts of material so we can weed through all the crap and get the good stuff," Levine explained. "Obviously the success of the first one could be a little bit daunting next time around, thinking ... 'I gotta write "This Love" again. And oh sh**, what if I don't?' But we're trying to think of it like we're trying to succeed the second time around with just as much passion and energy as we did the first time."
Maroon 5 have yet to pick a producer but have a few "brilliantly talented" people in mind, Levine said. As for the direction of their sound, the singer has been listening to a lot of early Prince and said that influence is coming out in his songwriting.
(Source: MTV.com)
Secret & Tangled
And the fact that they like LOTR is a huge bonus 
