MAROON 5

Maroon 5's Adam Levine gets chased, shot and bruised in the newly-premiered clip in support of band's single "Payphone" which is featured rapper Wiz Khalifa. Despite Adam tried to be a hero by saving a female co-worker during a robbery at the bank he works, he ends up being mistakenly pursued as one of the robbers by the cops. He also puts on fire Wiz Khalifa's convertible (earlier stolen), who comes in near the end of the clip delivewring his verses: "Man fck that sht/ I'll be out spending all this money/ while you sitting round/ Wondering why it wasn't you/ who came up from nothing/ made it from the bottom/ now when you see me I'm stuntin/ and all of my cars are with a push of a button" .

"I work at a bank and I wear these glasses that are really a bit creepy and maybe make me look like a child molester," he told MTV News about the fresh clip. "It's a real go-for-it, swing-for-the-fences video, I get brave and I steal a gun from one of the guys and try to be a bad-ass, which is weird, because I'm not a badass."

Due to the gun and violence exposure, Levine was aware that the clip might be a little too much for TV. He explained, "We decided to kind of not play by the rules, as far as the typical video goes; I'm sick of seeing just a band playing a song in a video, I think it's fun to try to do something far more different."

"I love to write video treatments; I would actually professionally write treatments. I don't even want to direct anything. I just love coming up with outlandish, fun things that I've always wanted to do," he stated. "I don't think they'll be able to play it on MTV actually, because there's guns in it."

"Payphone" features Wiz Khalifa and is taken from Maroon 5's next studio installment Overexposed, which is due in the United States on June 26. Here is the Sam Bayer-directed music video.

Maroon 5 feat Wiz Khalifa "Payphone" Music Video

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