Music Video
The music video for "Wake Up Call" is directed by Jonas Åkerlund and filming took place on July 7–9, 2007. The video is presented as a trailer for an imaginary NC-17-rated movie. It features Adam Levine's leading lady for the video Kim Smith, talking with Levine, asking for his forgiveness since she had sex with a man whom Levine doesn't know and who serves as the antagonist in the video. In it, Levine catches his girlfriend cheating on him with another man (played by Jeremy Sisto), whom he then shoots and kills. The rest of the video centers around Maroon 5 and Adam's girlfriend going through an elaborate plan to cover up the murder. It also show scenes of a woman who is on a pole and dancing on it, 2 woman are captured in a van, a woman waving a flag, another woman taking pictures on a boat and also the signs on the lyrics for the band to say during the video. Meanwhile, the band is seen playing in an outside sewer gates and also a helicopter flies by during the video. In the end, the entire band is captured and in the last scene of the video, Adam is given the electric chair.
According to the band's official website, the music video released on Tuesday, July 31, 12:00 AM PST and premiered on MTV's website in August 2007. On MTV and VH1, the video was shortened and changed up a bit. In the director's cut, Levine's girlfriend says "We both fucked up". In the edited version, it was replaced by "We both screwed up". The edited version also ends with Levine just going to sleep in his cell instead of being executed in the electric chair as well as the sex, pole dancing scenes being less explicit. The music video has been viewed over 14 million times.
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