Between touring with Maroon 5 and being a judge on The Voice, Adam Levine and his wife, Behati Prinsloo are never far apart, all thanks to SnapChat and animal filters.

James Valentine, who is Maroon 5’s lead guitarist revealed to PEOPLE that the band’s hilarious ‘SnapChat-inspired’ album cover for their latest album, Red Pill Blues was all Adam’s idea.

 

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James says, “He just trades Snaps with his wife all day when we’re out of tour.  They send each other those funny face filters, so just through that he had the idea to hey, this would actually be a funny record cover. It seems very much of the moment.”

 

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James even discussed how the band came up with their new album name and even after going through a list of names, it was Adam who picked the winning name for their sixth studio album.  “Adam came up with the Red Pill Blues thinking about The Matrix and taking the red pill, taking the blue. Seeing things for the way they are in 2017 is a little depressing, so that’s where the Red Pill Blues came from.” 

James continues, “[Red Pill Blues] definitely sounds like Maroon 5 because people are just accustomed to the way we sound, but I think for each record it’s definitely a step forward and an evolution.”
And when asked by PEOPLE how this album will be different in comparison to the others, “There are certain aspects of our sound that we’ll never be able to change completely, for instance Adam’s voice, [but] we always lean towards a funk-influenced type of sound that’s definitely there on all of our records.”

Their new album will feature a list of special guests which include SZA, A$AP Rocky, Julia Michaels and LunchMoney Lewis.

 

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James states, “Combining genres is something that we’ve always been interested in.  It’s influenced a lot of the way we’ve approached the band from the start.  We were a rock band, but we were really influenced by hip-hop records and soul music, so mixing that together has always been one of our favourite things.”

Red Pill Blues is currently available on pre-order and will drop on November 3.

 

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