Adam Levine Reacts to Mick Jagger Dancing to ‘Moves Like Jagger’
We love it when life imitates art. Rolling Stones frontman, legendary rocker Mick Jagger, shared a video recently dancing to Maroon 5’s “Moves Like Jagger.” The 80-year-old let loose in a bar in a video he shared to his Instagram just weeks ago, and Adam Levine reacts to the viral video during a recent late-night appearance.
Jagger’s impressive moves to the 2011 hit have received hundreds of thousands of likes since its March 27 posting. The English rocker cheekily captioned the clip: “Moves like who!” The band Splash behind him in the video performs a cover of the Maroon 5 song. Jagger is full of energy in the video, which you can watch below.
On Wednesday night (April 10), the Maroon 5 frontman appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, so of course Levine was asked about the Jagger video. Levine, 45, told host Fallon, “It’s really surreal. It’s just one of those things you’re like, ‘Oh my, like how is this possible? What is happening? It’s bizarre.’” As bizarre as it may feel, only a few people in Levine’s life shared the video with him after Jagger posted it — his mom being one of them!
When the song was written over ten years ago now, Levine says the inspiration was a woman. However, he solely takes the blame to be “the only idiot crazy enough to say that I have the moves like Jagger.” Apparently, it’s a “confidence thing. It’s a swag thing,” says Levine. “He’s the man.”
During his late-night appearance, Levine also hinted at new music for Maroon 5, who have been a band for 30 years now. He tells Fallon that the group is taking an “in-house” approach when it comes to recording the new tunes. “For the first time in about 13 years,” Levine says he feels ready enough to “take the reins back” to be a songwriter.
The father of two claims he is determined that he and his bandmates will have enough ideas that we won’t need any co-writers. “The ideas are coming straight from the nucleus of Maroon 5,” he assures, and together, they will make the music “sound a like it did in the very beginning. I’m so excited about what’s happening right now.“
The pop group’s seventh and most recent studio album, 2021’s Jordi, peaked at number 8 on the Billboard 200.
Watch Levine on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon below:
Maroon 5 have an upcoming Las Vegas residency, taking place from May to October. Their M5LV The Residency will take place at the Dolby Live at Park MGM theater, a 5,200-capacity venue.
