Peak
2
Weeks
42
Score
8,939
Chart Year
2015
In 2014, film director David Dobkin was in Rome, Italy, for the premiere of his film, The Judge. During his stay there, he received an e-mail from Levine asking him to direct the band's new music video, "I’ve known Adam for over a decade. I met him before the first Maroon 5 album came out. My wife's parents are best friends with his grandparents and I spend Christmas with him every year. So we’ve known each other for a long time and always talked about doing something together but were never able to get our schedules lined up."[32] After he agreed to film the video for "Sugar", they started discussing ideas for its concept. Dobkin wanted the video to be about the band's connection with their audience and wanted elements of real people and Los Angeles, Levine's hometown.[32] In an interview with VH1, the director revealed, "Then the idea came up of, what if they went to real weddings and showed up as the surprise wedding band?". When Levine heard the idea, he loved it.[32] In 2005, Dobkin directed the film Wedding Crashers in which Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn played the characters of John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey.[33] They star as "two dashing rogues who sneak into nuptials in search of lovelorn bridesmaids."[32] The film received positive reviews from movie critics[34] and was a box office success earning over $285 million worldwide.[35] Dobkin revealed, "For 10 years everyone asks me to do something related to that movie. I’ve never wanted to go back there, just because it's something that worked so well. But we locked in on this idea and thought it would be great. And then it was like, holy shit, how do we pull this off?" After the concept was decided on, they started preparing the wedding crashes. At the beginning, Dobkin thought that no one should know about the crash and filming. After some rethinking, however, he decided that at least one person should know about it. So they informed only the grooms and decided to keep the secret from the brides. The grooms were not, however, told the name of the band; they were only told that they are very popular and had won several Grammy Awards. The next step was deciding how, at the beginning of each performance, the band would hide. Dobkin designed and had built a drop-down tent, where a button was pressed, causing the curtains drop to the floor. After that, Dobkin visited many wedding planners in Los Angeles and visited a number of the locations where weddings would be happening, in order to decide which location at the site would be the best for setting up the tent.[32]
“Sugar” is the third single from Maroon 5’s 2014 album V. In this disco-influenced tune, Adam Levine’s pining falsetto compares a girl to sugar. Originally intended for Mike Posner’s album Pages, Mike himself described in an interview how the shelving of his record led to it becoming Maroon 5’s: Adam (Levine) wanted the song. He called and asked for it months before and I said no. But when Pages wasn’t going to come out and I sort of had the seedlings of this new record, I thought, ‘Well, this is just gonna sit on my laptop’ so I gave it to them and when they recorded the song Adam added his flavor to it and he wrote on it as well, lyrically and some melodic things, and he really sang it well. I’m a big fan, so I’m glad they did it. Posner has since posted a video of himself playing an acoustic version of what his version would have sounded like on his Instragram. The music video, directed by David Dobkin, features the band crashing weddings and playing “Sugar” for the attendees. On March 9, 2015, a remix featuring Nicki Minaj was released.
[Verse 1] I'm hurting baby, I'm broken down I need your loving, loving I need it now When I'm without you, I'm something weak You got me begging, begging, I'm on my knees [Pre-Chorus] I don't wanna be needing your love I just wanna be deep in your love And it's killing me when you're away Ooh, baby 'Cause I really don't care where you are I just wanna be there where you are And I gotta get one little taste [Chorus] Sugar, yes, please Won't you come and put it down on me? I'm right here, 'cause I need Little love, a little sympathy Yeah, you show me good loving, make it alright Need a little sweetness in my life Your sugar, yes, please Won't you come and put it down on me? [Verse 2] Babe, my broken pieces, you pick them up Don't leave me hanging, hanging, come give me some When I'm without you, I'm so insecure You are the one thing, one thing I'm living for [Pre-Chorus] I don't wanna be needing your love I just wanna be deep in your love And it's killing me when you're away Ooh, baby 'Cause I really don't care where you are I just wanna be there where you are And I gotta get one little taste [Chorus] Sugar, yes, please Won't you come and put it down on me? I'm right here, 'cause I need Little love, a little sympathy Yeah, you show me good loving, make it alright Need a little sweetness in my life Your sugar, yes, please (Your sugar, yes, please) Won't you come and put it down on me? [Bridge] Yeah I want that red velvet, I want that sugar sweet Don't let nobody touch it unless that somebody's me I gotta be a man, there ain't no other way 'Cause girl you're hotter than a Southern California day Never wanna play no games, you don't gotta be afraid Don't give me all that shy shit No makeup on, that's my sugar [Chorus] Sugar, yes, please (Please) Won't you come and put it down on me? (Down on me) I'm right here, 'cause I need (I'm right here, 'cause I need) Little love, a little sympathy Yeah, you show me good loving, make it alright Need a little sweetness in my life (Yeah) Your sugar, yes, please (Your sugar, yes, please) Won't you come and put it down on me? (Down on me) Sugar, yes, please Won't you come and put it down on me? (Down on me!) I'm right here, 'cause I need (I'm right here, 'cause I need) Little love, a little sympathy Yeah, you show me good loving, make it alright Need a little sweetness in my life Your sugar, yes, please (Your sugar, yes, please) Won't you come and put it down on me? (Down on me, down on me, ooh)
| Week | Chart Date | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jan 31, 2015 | 8 | 118 |
| 2 | Feb 7, 2015 | 6 | 120 |
| 3 | Feb 14, 2015 | 5 | 121 |
| 4 | Feb 21, 2015 | 4 | 122 |
| 5 | Feb 28, 2015 | 5 | 121 |
| 6 | Mar 7, 2015 | 4 | 122 |
| 7 | Mar 14, 2015 | 3 | 123 |
| 8 | Mar 21, 2015 | 3 | 123 |
| 9 | Mar 28, 2015 | 2 | 124 |
| 10 | Apr 4, 2015 | 2 | 124 |
| 11 | Apr 11, 2015 | 2 | 124 |
| 12 | Apr 18, 2015 | 2 | 124 |
| 13 | Apr 25, 2015 | 3 | 123 |
| 14 | May 2, 2015 | 4 | 122 |
| 15 | May 9, 2015 | 5 | 121 |
| 16 | May 16, 2015 | 6 | 120 |
| 17 | May 23, 2015 | 6 | 120 |
| 18 | May 30, 2015 | 7 | 119 |
| 19 | Jun 6, 2015 | 9 | 117 |
| 20 | Jun 13, 2015 | 9 | 117 |