Still, that’s not to say they weren’t a pleasant surprise. I much sooner would have anticipated finding them taking bong hits with The Dirty Heads at some kind of summer music festival before seeing them open for a band like Maroon 5. The “Rude” singers have a very reggae, indie sound compared to Maroon 5.
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Magic! was up next, which to me was a surprising choice for an opener. She was very energetic and fun and people bobbed their heads along to her short set list despite clearly not having much of an idea of who she was. Rozzi Crane, the first artist signed to Levine’s label, 222 Records, played first. So we have teenyboppers, un-retired teenyboppers, and some in-betweens who dragged their boyfriends along. The atmosphere of the crowd, combined with the set list of newer songs that aren’t necessarily my favorites had me admittedly setting the bar of the evening pretty low. Probably just slightly outnumbering the adorable young fan girls though, were groups of women I would have expected to be their mothers, if they weren’t arriving in separate flocks of their own.
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I realized it wasn’t too far off the mark when I spotted a group of girls no more than 17 years old decked out from head to toe in home-made Maroon 5 swag, complete with “Levine” plastered on the backs of their shirts and sparkly pink signs for holding up. With the success of The Voice, and Maroon 5’s singles consequentially flying off the charts these days, I expected a Bieber level of fan frenzy when I arrived at the Wells Fargo Center. The last time I had been to one of their shows, I was surprised when people could recognize Adam Levine by name. As a long-time Maroon 5 fan, I have seen them perform live upwards of seven times, however, their show at the Wells Fargo Center last night was the first time I’d seen them since 2010 (save for one very small, very private show last summer), just before Adam Levine signed on with The Voice and Maroon 5 exploded into celebrity.