No, it’s not the cover you never knew you never wanted…

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Katherine St Asaph: Wait — I don’t love you like you love you.
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Will Adams: Am I wrong for thinking this sounds like a carbon copy of another current hit? Am I wrong for preferring that song’s far less nasaly vocals? Am I wrong for, despite the presence of five co-writers, blaming this blatant ripoff solely on Tedder?
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Brad Shoup: There was a possible one-line review (or subhead), but we’ve been beaten to it. And anyway, this is fine, a mixture of “Am I Wrong” and yearning/yawning AOR, with a homeopathic amount of cod-feral Ke$ha tossed in. So of course fuckin’ Ryan Tedder’s behind it.
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Anthony Easton: I like the basic quality of Levine’s nostalgia and how he uses his falsetto to bring it home. It is the Burger King of pop music, but sometimes Burger King tastes good. 
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Thomas Inskeep: Girl, don’t believe a single syllable of this dickbag’s promises — leave it to a douchebag to make it all about him. 
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Patrick St. Michel: Won’t SOMEBODY think of poor Adam Levine and his impression of The Police???
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Alfred Soto: Having entered its Our Time in Eden stage (10,000 Maniacs, remember?), Adam Levine ft. Maroon 5 haven’t gotten softer. They’re as unpleasant in their depictions of the sex wars as ever. And Levine still gulps over tracks that don’t require much feeling, although the ooh-ooh filips in the chorus suggest he’s listened to Shakira a couple of times and decided after a round of yoga that she reminds him of Sheryl Crow. Slower than Bruno Mars, juicier than Rihanna, doomed to be as ubiquitous as both.
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