Girls Like You

Girls Like You is to Maroon 5 like Bonnie and Clyde is to Jay-Z. There’s both looking for the same thing, a ride or die chick. Throughout the track, Adam Levine is crooning at length to a girl that he’s put through a lot. He’s been drunk; they’ve been fighting. But, at the end of the night, their magnetic pull is undeniable.

Girls Like You is so catchy! I’m going to be humming it for the rest of the day. I just watched the video and that made it even better. Where else can I find a video featuring Eleven, Mary J. Blidge and Cardi B. (And so many other awesome women) ?! I love way the ups and downs of love are all presented in this song and the way that different women are celebrated in the video.

There are two things (in particular!) about Maroon 5’s “Girls Like You” video that make my heart sing -- as a staunch feminist, I obviously love the fact that this video features so many amazing women; as someone who has always been a fan of variety in my media, I thoroughly enjoyed watching a video with so much of it! The video features Adam Levine standing on a platform alone singing into a microphone. Doesn’t sound very exciting does it? Well, as he dives into the first chorus, as the camera is rotating around him, different women begin appearing behind him at every pass.

It doesn’t take too much brainpower to recognize that these women are all...well, different. From actresses to models to olympic athletes to comedians, this video features not only women from all different walks of life, but all different ethnicities as well. You won’t see any two women dressed in the same outfit or dancing the same either. Their personalities each shine with incredible individuality.

What better way to make a mockery of the phrase “girls like you” -- Maroon 5 (along with an army of talented and confident women) is here to tell you that no two women are the same and that trying to separate them down into different groups only to dismiss them is a fallacy. Plus, Ellen Degeneres. I mean, c’mon.

“we spent the daylight tryna make things right between us”\n\ni guess the story of the previous maroon 5 song “Daylight” had a happy ending.