Sing a Song for Me, Adam Levine: Appreciating Maroon 5's Debut Album 'Song About Jane'
Fourteen years ago, in the summer of 2002, Maroon 5 debuted with their album “Songs About Jane.” I was seven years old at the time. The album was the only CD my mom ever had in her car, so I would listen to Adam Levine sing sweet nothings on the way to school and on the way to soccer practice and everywhere in between. “Songs About Jane,” an album about love and lust written by a then 22-year-old Levine, would come to be the soundtrack to the latter years of my childhood.
As summer comes to a close and the rainy days start to trickle in, it takes me back to the first time I heard the album. And now, at 21, I’ve come to see the influence “Song About Jane” had on me: it was my first introduction to a love song.