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Why did Adam Levine call bands 'dying breed'? Internet says he's the one who 'turned his band into one-man show'

Reminiscing about Maroon 5's early days in the 2000s, Levine said, 'It's funny, when the first Maroon 5 album came out there were still other bands. I feel like there aren’t any bands anymore'

Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine has become the recipient of some pretty harsh comments by Twitter users recently following his latest comments on the apparent lack of bands.

Maroon 5 and Megan Thee Stallion dropped a new collaboration on March 3 titled 'Beautiful Mistakes' which Levine has confirmed will feature on the band's upcoming new album.

Speaking about the song with Apple Music's Zane Lowe in a new interview, Levine teased that Maroon 5's new album is "not far off". While that is sure to set fans off in excitement, the singer's opinion on a general topic of music drew criticism.

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Reminiscing about Maroon 5's early days in the 2000s, Levine tells Lowe, "It's funny, when the first Maroon 5 album came out there were still other bands. I feel like there aren’t any bands anymore, you know?"

The singer continued, "That’s the thing that makes me kind of sad, is that there were just bands. There’s no bands anymore, and I feel like they’re a dying breed." He then noted, "I mean, there still are plenty of bands, and maybe they’re not in the limelight quite as much, or in the pop limelight, but I wish there could be more of those around."

At one point in the interview, Levine spoke of his enthusiasm for having the band's songs played on the radio. "The radio’s a really valuable, cool thing to have,” he said. “I’ll never not romanticize the idea of having our songs played on the radio. And I think that’s a beautiful thing, so I wanted to keep chasing that.” He added, "I kind of started to say to myself, well, we’ll make records for the radio, but we’ll perform rock shows for our fans."

"And that’s a nice thing," Levine expressed, "because you don’t want to go and see a band live and have them sound exactly like the record, especially if it’s a little bit more of a pop-leaning thing, with more programming and more looping, and things like that."

Listen to the full interview here.

Fan reactions

The frontman's comments on bands left a lot of users on Twitter scratching their heads. "Foo Fighters still exist and they released good songs this year, Queen still exists and its lead singer is the marvelous Adam Lambert, Simple Plan still exists, Green Day still exists, Bon Jovi still exists..." commented a user.

Another replied, "I think he means bands who are actually making an impact in the industry NOW and not decades ago. I could name plenty of bands from the 60s and 70s and on that still ‘exist’ as in tour and maybe drop a couple songs that OG fans may listen to twice?"

One user wrote, "there’s literally so many- nobody told him to be picky." Another said, "That’s bc you’re mediocre music drove them away from mainstream, Adam." A user replied, "tbh i think he just refuses to admit that there’re lots of really cool bands that are 1000% better than macaroon five." Another noted, "Says the man who turned his band into a one man show."

Adam Levine is surely aware of other bands — and there is a multitude of them — but based on speculation, the singer could be referring to groups that play the instruments used in production or live performances. Synth and other tech-charged music have become the norm for years but it has also made "traditional" bands appear not as crucial to the art form.

Levine could also be referring to the decline in media representation for traditional bands as opposed to what is currently popular or mainstream. His key point presumably being that bands "are not in the limelight quite as much."