At the end of 2020, "Memories" ranked at number eight on the Hot 100 year-end chart. The song additionally peaked at number one on the Adult Top 40 chart, giving the band its fourteenth number one there, and at number one on the Adult Contemporary chart, where it remained for 20 weeks. This made Maroon 5 only the second band (the other is the Rolling Stones) to have a top-two hit on the Hot 100 in three different decades (2000s, 2010s and 2020s). "Memories" debuted at number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100, and later peaked at number two behind Post Malone's " Circles" to become the band's 10th top-five track and 15th top-ten track. Maeve McDermott of USA Today felt the track is "primed for end-of-summer nostalgia" and compared Levine's vocals to Sting. Similarly, El Hunt of NME called it a "sharp pop song" with "substance and heart". In a more enthusiastic review, Jon Dolan of Rolling Stone viewed the song as "a sweet, somber, genuinely felt ballad". Spin listed "Memories" as one of the worst songs of 2019, describing it as "a replica of a replica of a replica, sticky with the residue of borrowed emotion but hollow of anything resembling its own". Jason Friedman of Paste derided it for being as "viscerally annoying" as the band's 2016 single " Don't Wanna Know".
Evening Standard reviewer David Smyth called the song's use of "Canon in D Major" a "ghastly poaching". Pitchfork 's Dani Blum found the guitar line "cloying" and the take on tragedy "pallid". In The Guardian, Graeme Virtue was critical of the track's "trite" lyrics, and dismissed it as "fun-free dreck". Rolling Stone India listed it among the worst songs of 2019. Critical reception Ĭritical response to "Memories" was polarising. The song is in the key of B major, and Levine's vocals span from D#4 to the high note of G#5. The song is based on the harmonic sequence and melody of " Canon in D" by Johann Pachelbel. "Memories" was written by Adam Levine, Stefan Johnson, Jordan Johnson, Michael Pollack, Jacob Kasher Hindlin, Jon Bellion and Vincent Ford, and produced by Levine and the Monsters and the Strangerz. A 7-inch vinyl single was released on Record Store Day (October 24, 2020), which includes the song, the Dillon Francis remix and a 20-page photo & lyric booklet. Maroon 5 released four remixed versions of the song, featuring Dillon Francis on December 13, 2019, followed by Devault (December 16), Cut Copy (December 18), and a remix featuring American rappers Nipsey Hussle and YG (this remix is also included on the Jordi album, alongside the original version of "Memories"). "Memories" was released on September 20, 2019. and celebrate them too, which I think it's important". rather than fight about things, it's nice to have a common ground and all of us have had loss. In an interview of The Howard Stern Show, Levine said: "I needed this song", he continued: "In a world that's increasingly chaotic and crazy and angry in a lot of ways. We heard the skeleton of this song and thought it matched where we were at."
We lost our longtime manager, Jordan Feldstein. You know, we experienced some loss in the last couple of years. According to guitarist, James Valentine: "It's a different kind of song for us…It's an important song for us. In other words, this song is for all of us." The song is based on the loss of the band's manager and Levine's friend, Jordan Feldstein who died in December 2017, from pulmonary embolism. The band's lead singer, Adam Levine, explained: "This song is for anyone who has ever experienced loss. It is Maroon 5's final single with bassist Mickey Madden, who announced his departure from the band in 2020, following his arrest for domestic violence.
The single peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and at number one on the international music charts. Levine and the production team the Monsters and the Strangerz produced the song. The song was written by Maroon 5's lead singer Adam Levine, Stefan Johnson, Jordan Johnson, Michael Pollack, Jacob Kasher Hindlin, Jon Bellion, and Vincent Ford. "Memories" is based on " Canon in D Major" by German composer Johann Pachelbel. It was listed as one of the worst songs of 2019 by Spin magazine. The song divided critics, with many panning its production but others calling it "sweet". Lyrically, the song pays homage to the memories of a loved one who has since passed. " Memories" is a song by American band Maroon 5, released through 222 and Interscope Records on September 20, 2019, as the lead single from the band's seventh studio album Jordi.
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