Really guys? Why is this even a story? When we woke up this morning to a handful of tweets from Adam Levine defining the words joke, humorless, lighthearted and misunderstand, we knew something happened. Last night on The Voice, Levine made the comment "I hate this country", after his artist Amber Carrington was announced safe. Obviously he didn't mean to have this remark picked up by his mic. Regardless, we think people are reading way too into this. Many are claiming he said it because he was mad America saved Carrington, while others think he's angry towards country music in general since that's the kind of music she sings (and all of Blake's country artists were safe as well). There's people going as far as calling Levine a "communist" for his comment.
Our take on this? Everyone needs to calm down. No, Levine doesn't actually hate our country. It was a joke. We've dealt with Levine for four seasons on The Voice, how do people not get his sense of humor by now? After Carrington was safe, he realized he was definitely losing at least one, or two, of his contestants. It wasn't a jab at Carrington. If anything this makes us like Levine even more because you can tell just how invested he is in his artists. It should be interesting to see if Levine addresses this controversy on The Voice next week. What's your opinion on his comment? Watch the video (he says it at about 1:14) below:
