So that’s a horrible association, ugh, to have. Hopefully, everyone knows from all of our pasts that from our statements on the issue and our actions in the past-that we are all hardcore feminists in the band.
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“We’re like, ‘Oh man, of course, like 2017 is the worst.’ We were talking about the scene in ‘The Matrix’ ― do you take the red pill or the blue pill? And the fact that seeing the world for what it is in 2017 can be kind of rough … We had no idea about the association with men’s rights. In an interview with the Huffington Post, Maroon 5 guitarist James Valentine explained what happened: They just had no idea “red pill” has a new, negative connotation when they pulled the title from The Matrix. “We didn’t really understand the whole men’s rights thing,” he said.
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Were the boys behind “This Love” pledging their solidarity with the frustrated young men of Reddit? Was Adam Levine declaring that despite being a firmly-chiseled sex god, he’s got a bone or two to pick with the ladies? It is a silly phrase to apply to garden variety sexism, which is what made it a little strange when Maroon 5 revealed the title of their upcoming album: Red Pill Blues. The name is inspired by the famous choice offered in The Matrix, where Morpheus offers two pills-red and blue-to Neo, with the promise that the red will reveal the world as it really is.
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“Red pill” is the casual colloquialism for the movement of internet-dwelling men who drink too much Mountain Dew and are very angry about feminism, which is apparently the cause for society’s ills.