Maroon 5 is headlining the Super Bowl LIII halftime show in Atlanta despite the fact nobody knows who they are. Sure, on a macro level we all have at least some understanding of the band, but outside of Adam Levine can you honestly say, without looking at your phone, that you can name a single other member of the band?
This is hard pic.twitter.com/ali15AHTlH
— SB Nation (@SBNation) January 28, 2019
Here at SB Nation.com we sure couldn’t, and judging from your answers on social media you couldn’t either.
That’s like asking me to name non lebron Cavs last year
— Marcus Whaley (@MarcusWhaley1) January 28, 2019
Adam Levine, Levine Adam, Ladam Avine, Mada Enivel, Dama Veline
— Listening on 180g (@edalexport) January 28, 2019
Adam, CeeLo, Christina, Blake, Carson .....
— callemac (@callemac) January 28, 2019
There’s more than 1?
— ♀️ (@jennnheld) January 28, 2019
Adam Levine
— busyness (@busyness) January 28, 2019
Not Adam Levine
Not Adam Levine
Not Adam Levine
Not Adam Levine
This wasn’t just a Twitter thing either — nobody on Facebook had a clue either.
“Singy Man, Guitar Boy, Bassy McBassington, Drumsy and Plays Another Instrument Joe. I assume there’s five of them.” — Jonny O’Brien
“Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky, Mike and Ralph.” — Kraven Moorehead
“It’s not just the one dude?” — Joey Cocco
“Adam Levine, Sky Austin, Brent Dwade, Ricardo Shilly Shally and Tondoleya De La Ventimiglia.” — Michael Angelo Rayo
Okay, so just to be nice to Maroon 5 here are their names so everyone knows:
Adam Levine, Johan Graus, William Smith, Johnny D’Angelo, Steve Burton, T.J. Dunnah and Elvis LeGrange.
That was a total lie — but you believed it because you have no clue either.
Their real names (promise) are:
- Adam Levine
- Jesse Carmichael
- Mickey Madden
- James Valentine
- Matt Flynn
- PJ Morton
- Sam Farrar