The song hit it big almost immediately upon its release, peaking at the top of the Hot 100 and ending the year at No. The only way to properly react to this development was, of course, a cash-in single.Īnd so we were gifted with “Moves Like Jagger,” in which Maroon 5 seem to be speeding through a piece of Xeroxed-to-death sheet music containing Hall & Oates outtake from 1981, with lyrics to match sex is compared to starting a car, and there are vague references to making things “feel right” and rubbing, and Aguilera gets a dropped-in bridge where she shows off her pipes briefly. Then NBC stepped in and hired them both as coaches on their translation of the Dutch talent show The Voice, and what do you know? Being on TV made Americans realize that they still existed, and had even been putting out music in recent months that wasn’t as terrible as some doubters wanted to claim. The Crimes: Profligate whistling, misplaced sass, wholly unsexy instruction to “take by the tongue.”Įarlier this year, both Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera were coming off what might be called “soft landings”-the lite-funk outfit’s 2010 album Hands All Over received a tepid reception from the marketplace, while the pint-sized belter was coming off punishing reactions to both her overstuffed robo-pop collection Bionic and the “so bad, it can’t even be so bad that it’s good” pile of camp Burlesque.
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