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At least that's the idea we got from Adam Levine, frontman of Maroon 5.
Before starting the interview, we were reminded to keep it below 10 minutes. And when the singer came on, he was polite but neither forthcoming nor engaging. Questions were answered with almost perfunctory succinctness and cavalier aloofness. Charming.
"I remember enthusiastic fans. Everyone loved us," he replied when asked about the band's first show here in 2008 - which clocked in at a too-short 60 minutes. Tonight's show will "definitely be better, and definitely improved from the last one," said Levine. "It's hard to explain what it's going to be like - you have to see it."
With their latest album Hands All Over doing well on the charts, does the 32-year-old singer still think the band will be breaking up in the near future, as he had reportedly said four years ago when It Won't Be Soon Before Long was released? "I'm not sure if that statement's really true, but I like keeping people on their toes."
Besides a massive world tour this year, Levine will also be seen on TV as a vocal coach along with Cee Lo Green, Christina Aguilera and Blake Shelton in the new singing competition series The Voice. Comparisons to American Idol, which is hitting a new stride this season, were dismissed. "So much has been said about that and I'm not too concerned. The Voice is different - it doesn't have the same feeling as Idol."
Earlier this year, Levine showed off another side to his pop star image: His very naked body - family jewels covered by the hands of his girlfriend and Victoria's Secret model Anne Vyalitsyna, thank you very much - for Cosmopolitan magazine in the United Kingdom to raise awareness for testicular cancer .
"It was really weird. It was strange posing nude but I like doing weird things like that," he said about the experience. The next "weird thing" on his to-do list is still undecided as there are "so many things to do". Serene Lim
Maroon 5 performs at the Singapore Indoor Stadium tonight. Tickets from S$75 to S$185 are available at Sistic.
