Adam Levine Feared 1 Song Would End His Career

Adam Levine once worried that one of his band’s biggest hits could have ended his career. During an April 2025 interview on The Howard Stern Show, the Maroon 5 frontman admitted that he didn’t want to record the 2011 song “Moves Like Jagger” after music producer Benny Blanco approached him with the lyrics.

“Benny came to us. He knew our manager,” Levine told Stern in the interview. “He brought me a song. It was funny because I was like, ‘Man, this motherf------ song is either a career ender...