Maroon 5 have released their brand new song “Memories”.
Adam Levine confirmed the track was for “anyone who has ever experienced loss.”
He added on Twitter, “In other words, this song is for all of us.”
The lyrics include, “Here’s to the ones that we got/ Cheers to the wish you were here, but you’re not/ ‘Cause the drinks bring back all the memories of everything we’ve been through/ Toast to ones here today.”
The musician spoke about why the band had decided to stay away from singing another track about girls and relationships while discussing the release on Apple Music’s Beats 1.
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Levine shared, according to E!: “I think when you write songs and you’re in a band and you do your thing for this long, as you said, you get to the point where, wow, let’s take a look at where we’re at and maybe have that be reflected in the music in a way. For roughly 20 years, almost, I’ve been writing songs about relationships, successes, failures and in that world.
“And so then I think when it came time to think of another song, we thought, ‘OK, hey, let’s try to write a song that’s not about girls. Let’s try a song that’s not about… relationships and not about the broken relationships of the past and let’s move on to something that’s maybe a little more, even more universal,’ I think.
“And I think it’s an amazing moment to have something that forces all of us to take a look at… something that makes us innately human, which is exploring loss and the things that have happened.”
