• It debuted at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming their third consecutive top ten single from
V.
It was also the band's 11th top ten hit and their eighth in row.
•
The song was featured in a Nissan advertising campaign. (Nissan is also a sponsor on
The Voice)
From the Album:
V (2014)
Released:
January 13, 2015
Recorded:
2014; Conway Recording Studios (Hollywood, CA)
Luke's in the Boo (Malibu, CA)
The Mothership (Sherman Oaks, CA)
Genre:
Disco,
funk-pop,
soul
Length:
3:56
Writers:
Adam Levine,
Joshua Coleman,
Lukasz Gottwald,
Jacob Kasher Hindlin,
Mike Posner,
Henry Walter
Producers:
Ammo,
Cirkut
Music video:
"Sugar" on YouTube
The video premiered on January 14, 2015. Film director David Dobkin shot the accompanying music
video for the single in Los Angeles in December 2014.
Inspired by the 2005 romantic comedy, Wedding Crashers, it features Maroon 5 crashing and coming
uninvited on weddings happening in the city on that day.
Dobkin said:
"Adam and I are old friends and have been talking about doing something together for over a decade.
Plus, it's very meaningful because the band was in New York ten years ago and attended the original
Wedding Crashers premiere."
While Levine told ET's Kevin Frazier that it was "stressful to arrange all of it but the brides and grooms
were certainly shocked that the band had crashed their weddings. It was a lot of fun.
It felt good to kind of surprise these people and make them happy...
Happy that they liked our band too. It would have been a total disaster [if not]."
Later
two of the actors who played the role of parents said:
"The buzz on the internet is whether the Maroon 5 'Sugar' music video is real or staged.
We played the parents of the Asian bride and yes, everything was staged".
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