Maroon 5 front man Adam Levine is bitter about the group's boyband image, insisting they'd be taken more seriously if they were ugly. However the heartthrob refuses to change who the band are, just to please journalists.

He says, "There is a boyband thing that still hovers around us and people think we're lightweight because of that. But we're a proper group. We can really play. If we were five overweight, middle-aged guys, people would take us more seriously. We won't apologize for what we are. We're a pop group, and we're not going to make videos where we all look dirty."

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