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Our personal impatience aside, though, the record execs upstairs clearly know what they're doing. The song has sat at #1 on iTunes for a good many days now, and this might be the extra bump the song needs to stick around.
Clearly the execs knew their visual strengths going into this too. Ten years ago a video for this track would have been easy - just stick an underage Xtina in a bikini and make her dance like a stripper for a few minutes. But this is 2011, and Xtina is.... "healthier," and the gays buy all the records. So the suits had some meetings, talked it all out, stripped down Adam Levine in front of a camera and DID WHAT THEY NEEDED TO DO.
And for that we will be eternally grateful.
The video is actually pretty interesting aside from Adam's peen pointers, too. It has dancing! It has Mick Jagger impersonators! The ACTUAL Mick Jagger! Xtina standing in front of a microphone! And Adam effing Levine in a state of significant undress.
Well played. Well played indeed.