Adam Levine:Dear Fox News, don't play our music on your evil fucking channel ever again. Thank you.

[jodymarie aimee]

I googled is Adam Levine a Democrat? Something called Hollowverse.com replied thusly....the site seems a bit dodgy..I have never heard of a navy blue Dem in my 67 years !! And calling FOX a conservative staple like it is even a news org...


Levine is a registered Democrat And he’s got the Obama-supporting stats to prove it. In 2008, Levine publicly endorsed Barack Obama on the Jimmy Kimmel Show. Then, in 2012, Levine took his Obama supporting to a new level of profanity, tweeting:

Dear America, if you don’t re-elect Barack Obama, I’m gonna lose my shit.

But Levine’s no moderate Democrat–he’s dark blue, like navy blue. He’s huge on gay rights. Levine’s brother is openly gay and he’s lent his star power to advancing the gay rights cause from appearing on the cover of Out magazine, promoting a gay teen support organization, and refusing to hold Maroon 5’s after-the-Grammy’s party at a restaurant that supported California’s Proposition 8 against gay marriage.

Plus, he sent Fox News (a conservative staple) a friendly message after he heard a Maroon 5 song on the channel. It was:

Dear Fox News, don’t play our music on your evil fucking channel ever again. Thank you.

[Clash City Rocker]

1. Crap, now I can't hate Maroon 5 any more.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. Well, you still don't have to like them.

Just not hate them.

[democratisphere]

4. Why would you hate them?

Maroon 5 creates great music! Levine's politics are are where they should be!

[Traildogbob]

8. Cool!

Not a fan of the style but, I respect the talent as musicians. Adam can actually slay guitar riffs.
That aside, I love the fact he told Fox to fuck off. I got so sick of trump playing Stones at his KKKlan rallies. This move makes me feel much better after all the loses to Cowboy Blake Shelton. Anyone wanna guess Blakes politics? Fox should be forced to only play Kid Rock, Nugent, Charlie Daniels, and Christian hymns.

[RVN VET71]

25. Doesn't Trump play the Stones "You can't always get what you want?"

I've heard that numerous times when he approaches the mic at his rallies. It's so fittingly ironic that only a moron like Trump, along with his moronic cultist followers, could miss it.

[GemDigger]

26. The Stones told Trump to back off as well but Trump will be Trump and use whatever /

whomever he wants to get what he wants when he wants it. I laughed at his choice of this song.

[SammyWinstonJack]

15. Right? They're a great group.

[UniteFightBack]

5. You can hate their music if you don't like it...that's a whole different thing. nt

[geardaddy]

12. +1

[bitterross]

22. You're free to dislike their music and still like them as people.

That's okay.

[Maru Kitteh]

3. NICE! I wish more artists would do this.

[cwydro]

6. Wait, they're playing the Super Bowl! I thought we hated them this week!

I’m so confused.

[Iggo]

17. I ain't confused. Black lives matter way more than Mr Levine's intellectual property issues. (n/t)

[Tipperary]

19. Du seems confused.

I see this frequently.

[underpants]

7. Will they play SWEET VICTORY?

[2naSalit]

9. Perhaps they'll take a knee during the Anthem...nt

[spike jones]

24. The national anthem is played at the start of the game.

At sometime during their halftime show Maroon 5 should broadcast a few chords of Jimi Hendrix’s recorded Woodstock national anthem and take a knee.

[keithbvadu2]

10. There should be a law that if someone uses your image/intellectual property without your permission,

There should be a law that if someone uses your image/intellectual property without your permission, then you can use theirs to promote any cause you wish.

Reciprocity.

[oldsoftie]

11. Depends on if any of their songs are part of a music package that you can pay for.

If it is, then he cant stop them. And Maroon 5 would be getting paid for it.
But if its NOT, then he could sue them if they continued.

[Mabel]

13. I've been calling myself a Yellow Dog Democrate for years

but I like the term Dark Blue Democrat much better I think I'll start using that.

[MadDAsHell]

14. My guess is Maroon 5 doesn't even own or control its own music; some studio does.

And that studio will license Maroon 5's music to anyone willing to pay.

Do while it's great he's taking a stand, it's really only a request; he unfortunately probably has zero control over who uses the music he plays and for what purpose.

[ZZenith]

18. I doubt any studio owns it. They're currently signed to Interscope

But have been signed to Warner Bros, Reprise and A&M in the past.

Once you sign on that dotted line you kiss any rights to your art goodbye. Worked out financially for them but they have no legal authority left.

Studios very rarely retain any rights to musical creations. Record labels, however, almost always do.

[underpants]

27. They could be using Maroon 5 music as "buffer music"

You clearly know more than I do but as I understand it music in certain short riffs is available to use as buffer in and out of commercial. This came up with talk radio when Limbaugh used some Rush music and they fired back at him. The problem was that it's all or nothing: the song owner doesn't get any royalties but it's familiar music and those little bits remind people of it. You can either receive the benefit of having an ear worm planted OR get completely out and no one can use it but you can't pick who uses it.

That was my understanding

[Iggo]

16. Take a knee, Mr Levine. (n/t)

[KG]

20. I'm right down to K-mart and buy something from his fashion collection!

[PupCamo]

23. and I hope you're going to donate it to some worthy charity afterwards

[calimary]

21. All the more reason to like him!