Burn features Maroon 5

BURN, the music magazine of INQUIRER.net’s sister company, Hinge Inquirer Publications, interviewed Maroon 5 for its July-August issue, now out in newsstands.

Here’s an excerpt from the Maroon 5 interview:

Not red, but maroon, of course. The talented quartet with the sizzling hot vocalist have tasted the oh-so-sweet taste of success and have poured most of that sweetness into their sophomore effort. With an upbeat, very danceable single, seems like Grammy Award winners Maroon 5 will be tasting even sweeter success the second time around.

Q: The title of your album is It Won’t Be Soon Before Long. I heard that it was a mantra that you use when you’re touring. When you did start using that?

Adam Levine: A buddy of ours, Christopher McCann, who’s a photographer was on the road taking photographs of us and he tended to write down things that people said in a little scribble pad, and he had written this down. Then, we’re compiling down photographs in this book that we made called Midnight Miles, which is this photo documentary of us on the road. This quote came up and I think Chris wanted to name the book It Won’t Be Soon Before Long, and we thought, “Wait a minute! That’s way too good to use for this book,” as much as I love books. So basically we held on to it. We kind of kicked it around a little bit and thought it would be a good idea to try it out, it stuck.

Q: When you were writing songs, was that like a threat that kind of kept on through?

JC: It was so perfect because our fans were asking when are we going to make our next record, and we kept asking when are we going to stop touring and we answered all these questions, “Soon! Soon! Soon!” And we dragged on and on, months and months.

AL: The meaning of it is obviously open for interpretation because it doesn’t actually make sense so I just thought about the fact that when you say that “It won’t be soon for long,” it really kind of means that it will be long before soon (laughs). Either it doesn’t make sense but if you think about it that way, kind of conversely, you start to understand what the hell it means. It’s true, don’t you know what I’m talking about? You guys aren’t smart enough that’s the problem, next question. (laughs)

Q: After touring, when everything sank in, what does fame and all that kind of stuff mean to you now?

Wanna find out the answers to this and other questions? Grab your copy of the July-August issue of Burn Music Magazine now and get your fill of Maroon 5 and other latest news in the music scene.

By the way, here’s a look at the two covers — take your pick!

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