"Memories" is a song by American band

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, released through

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on September 20, 2019, as the lead single from the band's seventh studio album ''

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''. Lyrically, the song pays homage to the memories of a loved one who has since passed. The song divided critics, with many panning its production but others calling it "sweet". It was listed as one of the worst songs of 2019 by ''

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'' magazine. "Memories" is based on "

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" by German composer

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. The song was written by Maroon 5's lead singer

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, Stefan Johnson, Jordan Johnson, Michael Pollack, Jacob Kasher Hindlin,

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, and

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. Levine and the production team

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produced the song. The single peaked at number two on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and at number one on the international music charts. It is Maroon 5's final single with bassist

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, who announced his departure from the band in 2020, following his arrest for domestic violence.

Background and release

The band's lead singer,

, explained: "This song is for anyone who has ever experienced loss. In other words, this song is for all of us." The song is based on the loss of the band's manager and Levine's friend, Jordan Feldstein who died in December 2017, from

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. According to guitarist, James Valentine: "It's a different kind of song for us…It's an important song for us. You know, we experienced some loss in the last couple of years. We lost our longtime manager, Jordan Feldstein. We heard the skeleton of this song and thought it matched where we were at." In an interview of ''

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'', Levine said: "I needed this song", he continued: "In a world that's increasingly chaotic and crazy and angry in a lot of ways... rather than fight about things, it's nice to have a common ground and all of us have had loss... t's about lossand celebrate them too, which I think it's important". "Memories" was released on September 20, 2019. Maroon 5 released four remixed versions of the song, featuring

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on December 13, 2019, followed by Devault (December 16),

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(December 18), and a remix featuring American rappers

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and YG (this remix is also included on the ''Jordi'' album, alongside the original version of "Memories"). A

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single was released on

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(October 24, 2020), which includes the song, the Dillon Francis remix and a 20-page photo & lyric booklet.

Composition

"Memories" was written by Adam Levine, Stefan Johnson, Jordan Johnson, Michael Pollack, Jacob Kasher Hindlin,

and Vincent Ford, and produced by Levine and

. The song is based on the harmonic sequence and melody of "

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" by

. The song is in the key of B major, and Levine's vocals span from D#4 to the high note of G#5.

Critical reception

Critical response to "Memories" was polarising. ''

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'' listed it among the worst songs of 2019. In ''

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'', Graeme Virtue was critical of the track's "trite" lyrics, and dismissed it as "fun-free dreck". ''

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''s Dani Blum found the guitar line "cloying" and the take on tragedy "pallid". ''

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'' reviewer David Smyth called the song's use of "Canon in D Major" a "ghastly poaching". Jason Friedman of '' Paste'' derided it for being as "viscerally annoying" as the band's 2016 single "

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'' listed "Memories" as one of the worst songs of 2019, describing it as "a replica of a replica of a replica, sticky with the residue of borrowed emotion but hollow of anything resembling its own". In a more enthusiastic review, Jon Dolan of ''

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'' viewed the song as "a sweet, somber, genuinely felt ballad". Similarly, El Hunt of ''

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'' called it a "sharp pop song" with "substance and heart". Maeve McDermott of ''

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'' felt the track is "primed for end-of-summer nostalgia" and compared Levine's vocals to

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Chart performance

"Memories" debuted at number 22 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, and later peaked at number two behind

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" to become the band's 10th top-five track and 15th top-ten track. This made Maroon 5 only the second band (the other is

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) to have a top-two hit on the Hot 100 in three different decades (2000s, 2010s and 2020s). The song additionally peaked at number one on the

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chart, giving the band its fourteenth number one there, and at number one on the

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chart, where it remained for 20 weeks. At the end of 2020, "Memories" ranked at number eight on the Hot 100 year-end chart.

Music videos

Official video

The official music video was released on October 8, 2019, on

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. Directed by David Dobkin and shot by cinematographer

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, this video is reminiscent of Sinead O'Connor's music video for "

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" (1990). The video shows

close to the camera singing in front of a dark background. It ends with the words "For Jordi", which are a dedication to Feldstein. As of November 2022, the official music video on YouTube has over 884 million views and 8.9 million likes.

Lyric videos

An animated lyric video of the song was released on November 29, 2019, by the band's YouTube channel. Directed by Andrew S. Cohen and Ryan Kieffer and was created by the animated production studio Confidential Cartoon Studios. The lyric video starts in an attic with the Maroon 5 memory box to include a number of items referencing the band's music videos for other songs:

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and " One More Night"), the

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" featuring

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from the band's concerts and their tour bus. Other items in the video including an album cover art of the band's ''The Studio Albums'' (2016), ''

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and iHeartRadio Music Award trophy, tickets and the letter M with a vertex logo from the band's coloured stickers, a leon lighted of "V" from the band's

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and a collage of photos from when the band was known as Kara's Flowers, all together only inside a collection of items appeared from the box. Another lyric video, which is the song's remix version by musician

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in the United States. This video is dedicated to Noel, who died of cancer on September 30, 2019. A third lyric video with another remix featuring Nipsey Hussle and YG and was animated by Michelle Renslo, Carolyn Knapp and Celina Bhandari from 1824. It was released on June 11, 2021, the day with the release of the album.

Live performances

On October 6, 2019, Maroon 5 performed "Memories" for the first time on ''

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'', which aired on October 7. The following day, band members Levine and Valentine performed an acoustic version of the song on ''

''. In December 2019, the band played the song on

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, during the last shows in

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and Las Vegas. On February 1, 2020, Maroon 5 performed the song at the ''

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Super Bowl Music Fest'', a pre-show for

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and made a tribute to

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, with his daughter Gianna and seven other victims of the Calabasas helicopter crash. During the

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, the band performed in isolation with a remote version of the song for the at home edition of ''

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'' on May 12, 2020, with Levine dedicated to Bryant. In June 2021, Maroon 5 played the song on ''

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'', to promote the album ''Jordi''. In September 2021, the band performed "Memories" at

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for the

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television special ''Shine a Light: A Tribute to the Families of 9/11'', to commemorate with the 20th anniversary of

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Awards and nominations

Track listing

Digital download #"Memories" – 3:09 Digital download – Dillon Francis Remix #"Memories" (

Remix) – 2:44 Digital download – Devault Remix #"Memories" (Devault Remix) – 3:13 Digital download – Cut Copy Remix #"Memories" (

Remix) – 6:57

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

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Background and release

Composition

Critical reception

Chart performance

Music videos

Official video

Lyric videos

Other official videos

Live performances

Awards and nominations

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

See also

References