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This A list singer/network reality judge has no friends when it comes to crews who support his tours and concerts.

He treats all of them like crap and thinks he is better than them.

Adam Levine

Maroon 5, The Voice

The shady side of Adam Levine

That half-hearted halftime show

Adam Levine is an extremely talented guy. He’s handsome. He can sing. He got “Moves Like Jagger” stuck in the heads of everyone on the planet for about a year. He’s a happily married dad to a little girl named Dusty Rose.

He also, well, can be kind of a jerk.

Setting aside the almost overwhelmingly negative response to Maroon 5’s performance during the halftime show at Super Bowl LIII, there is a whole other reason fans were left disappointed by the band over the gig. After Rihanna and Cardi B declined to perform, the latter of whom explicitly stating she did so out of solidarity with Colin Kaepernick’s “take a knee” protest, Maroon 5 signed on alongside rappers Big Boi and Travis Scott.

Fans immediately called on Levine and his band to reverse that decision, and they even started a petition begging them to do so, which garnered over 100,000 signatures to no avail. The show went on, and the result was lackluster at best, with mainstream outlets like USA Today even describing it as “flavorless” in their headline. And the worst part, for some critics, was that none of the performers gave even the slightest nod to Kaepernick or his cause.

So, did Levine eat crow, admit it wasn’t his best night, and apologize for disappointing people on nearly every possible level? Nope, not at all. Instead, he wrote a vague Instagram post about the “responsibility” of such a high level performance, and thanked “the universe,” “[the band’s] fans,” and “critics for always pushing us to do better.”

He disses the VMAs all the time

Adam Levine took the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards allegedly cutting off singer Julia Michaels’ debut performance pretty personally.

“It’s always exciting to see how utterly horrible the VMAs will be,” Levine tweeted during the ceremony, adding, “Julia Michaels gets cut off while she’s singing and Lorde gets to NOT sing her whole song.” And it wasn’t the first time he beefed with the show. In 2011, he tweeted, “The VMAs. One day a year when MTV pretends to still care about music. I’m drawing a line in the sand. F**k you VMAs.”

Turns out, Levine may have a case of sour grapes. He admitted to USA Today in 2014 that he was a bit bitter that Maroon 5 hadn’t been invited back to the show since winning Best New Artist in 2004, but was happy they were invited in 2014. “For many years, we felt like the uninvited dinner guests, but after much persistence and perhaps a little too much mouthing off, they seemed to have changed their minds,” Levine said in his 2014 interview. “So thank you, MTV.”

By 2015, he changed his tune again on Twitter, writing, “I’m five minutes into the #VMAs and I already need a shower.”

He feuded with Christina Aguilera on air…

In 2012, Levine started a beef with fellow The Voice coach Christina Aguilera, throwing contestant Tony Lucca into the middle of things. Lucca knew Aguilera from their Mickey Mouse Club days, though she seemed to not recall knowing him. Lucca joined Team Adam, and Levine used him to egg Aguilera on all season. The feud culminated with Lucca’s performance of Jay-Z’s “99 Problems,” which Aguilera diplomatically deemed offensive.

“Your beautiful wife and your daughter and family are here tonight, and I just thought the lyrical connotation was a little derogatory towards women,” Aguilera said, adding that Lucca “sounded great.”

Radar Online reported that Levine planned the performance to troll Xtina. “Adam and Tony wanted to call Christina out as a b***h but make it clear she’s not a problem for Tony,” a source told the tab. “It was completely aimed at her. It was Adam’s idea, but Tony absolutely loved it. Christina thought it was ridiculous. She was highly offended.”

So, how did Levine react to Lucca’s song choice being called out on live TV by Aguilera? “It’s called a metaphor,” he snipped, before (perhaps sarcastically) declaring his love for her and showing off a “Team Xtina” shirt.

Even other Voice personalities got annoyed with him

Levine’s bickering with Aguilera didn’t just annoy the “Dirrty” singer—even other coaches and host Carson Daly were irritated by the beef.

“It’s getting a little bit inconvenient for everyone,” fellow The Voice coach Cee Lo Green told Us Weekly of the feud in 2012.

“Adam hasn’t come to me and spoken to me [about his issues] and neither has Christina. But whatever it is, I’m hoping that we can get over it,” Green added. “It’s not something that we should carry over into season three. I want the integrity of the show intact.”

Daly concurred, and hinted that the infighting was nothing new. “It’s frustrating in the same way when you’re just with your family on Thanksgiving and the conversation over Monopoly gets heightened for a second: I’m looking at my sister going, ‘is my blood really boiling over the fact that you have Park Place?'” he said. “Then it goes away. And that’s what that was. It’s nothing new for us.”

He felt threatened by Pharrell

A source told Radar Online that Levine wasn’t a fan of fellow The Voice coach Pharrell Williams, simply because Williams was good at his job.

“[Levine] feels shafted behind the scenes,” a source said. “Not only is Pharrell talking the contestants that Adam would have generally locked in with ease, but he is also a favorite among the production staff. He takes this role very seriously and is new and fresh. Adam is just jaded after doing it for so many seasons,” the insider added. “Production staff are saying that not only does Adam act like an a**hole, but he is totally of jealous of Pharrell and this season has brought out his true colors.”

He started a beef with Miley Cyrus …

Levine seems to have issues with a lot of judges who aren’t Blake Shelton. An insider told Radar Online that the Maroon 5 frontman loathes Miley Cyrus. “Adam really cannot stand Miley because he thinks that she is the most obnoxious person ever,” the source said. “Adam does not really want to return if they bring Miley back. He really is that over it.”

A source also revealed that the bickering between Cyrus and Levine started almost immediately after the “Wrecking Ball” singer signed on to the show. “Adam and Miley were non-stop bickering during their last taping together. He nitpicks almost every single thing she says,” the source told Radar Online. “Adam seems to find Miley to be extremely loud-mouthed and absolutely annoying!”

An insider told Us Weekly that Levine may have met his match in Cyrus, which is why they’re butting heads. “They both have short attention span. They find each other annoying,” the source said. “Adam would get agitated when Miley would interrupt him, and she enjoyed getting under his skin.” Karma, thy name is Miley.

…and with Lady Gaga

Levine’s feuds with female artists aren’t limited to the ladies with whom he works on The Voice. The “Sugar” singer also seems to have a long-term bone to pick with Lady Gaga. In 2011, he tweeted, “Lady Gaga took ‘Vogue’ and ‘Express Yourself’ and put them in a blender. The result: ‘Born This Way.'” Gaga never acknowledged this diss.

Two years later, he took shots via subtweets at Mother Monster again, once more unprompted, when she dropped her “Applause” video from ARTPOP, which referenced several major works of art throughout history, including Sandro Botticelli’s Venus and the movie The Seventh Seal (1957).

“Ugh..recycling old art for a younger generation doesn’t make you an artist. It makes you an art teacher,” he wrote, followed by, “I unabashedly love writing and performing pop music for both myself AND everyone around me. That’s It. It doesn’t need any extra sauce.”

Gaga responded in kind, writing, “Uh oh guys, the art police is here.” Levine didn’t back down, tweeting, “by the way, im NOT an artist. i sing in a band and i make music with my friends … Methinks thou dost protest too much…yikes!!! While we’re at it we should call the grammar police.” – Source: Read more here


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