What Lovers Do
Maroon 5 featuring SZA | Artist Essentials
First released: 2017 (year verified)
Original 2017 studio recording
MusicAtlas editorial note: The buoyant guitar pulse carries an easy exchange between the two lead voices.
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First released: 2017 (year verified)
The original recording is documented in the 2017 release history of What Lovers Do. Only year precision is assigned; later singles, charts, remasters and live versions do not establish its first release.
Recording: Original 2017 studio recording
Credit: Maroon 5 featuring SZA
Role in this collection: Primary artist
Original single: What Lovers Do
Red Pill Blues - licensed original program and carryovers
Original 2017 program preserves Don't Wanna Know as a 2016 single with Kendrick Lamar and What Lovers Do as a 2017 SZA collaboration. The Cardi B recording is explicitly a later 2018 addition. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
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Red Pill Blues - licensed original program and carryovers
Original 2017 program preserves Don't Wanna Know as a 2016 single with Kendrick Lamar and What Lovers Do as a 2017 SZA collaboration. The Cardi B recording is explicitly a later 2018 addition. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
About Maroon 5
Maroon 5 emerged in Los Angeles after members of Kara's Flowers regrouped with guitarist James Valentine. Songs About Jane combined rock guitars, keyboard-led grooves and R&B phrasing around Adam Levine's high lead voice. Later albums moved toward electronic pop and collaborations with singers and rappers while retaining concise melodic hooks. The group's catalog also makes room for restrained ballads, with a renewed emphasis on groove in the 2025 Love Is Like chapter.
Artist background sources
Songs About Jane - original Octone program
Original 2002 program and track dates, including the original full She Will Be Loved. The distributor history also describes the Los Angeles group and its earlier Kara's Flowers formation; later annual years are not first releases. | Retrieved 2026-10-18
Maroon 5 - Interscope artist biography
Actual label biography identifies the Los Angeles band and its debut hybrid of rock and R&B. Current promotional sales and stream totals are not repeated. | Retrieved 2026-10-18
Overexposed - original album program and release history
Original 2012 program and pre-album One More Night and Payphone single fields. The substantive introduction independently identifies Moves Like Jagger as a 2011 song, resolving the earlier package-field error. | Retrieved 2026-10-18
Love Is Like - original 2025 program
Original 2025 album program and the earlier All Night single field. The artist interview supplies context for the later group chapter, without reproducing private song-origin claims. | Retrieved 2026-10-18
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-18. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
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