The choice between red and blue pill
Pop rock band from Los Angeles named Maroon 5 has released their sixth studio album on November 3rd, 2017. Red Pill Blues is the name of their new album which consists of fifteen songs and one remix featuring Cardi B in their greatest song from this album Girls Like You. So, the album name sounds really interesting! It refers to a popular cultural meme, a metaphor which represents the choice between a red pill and a blue pill. Red pill represents 'a life of harsh knowledge, desperate freedom, and the brutal truths of reality' and blue pill represents 'a life of luxurious security, tranquil happiness, and the blissful ignorance of the harsh realities of life, basking in an (essentially dishonest) illusion.' When you mix terms of the red pill and blue pill you get Red Pill Blues. There's a story that they got the idea for the name of the album from a movie called "The Matrix" filmed in 1999. Maroon 5 is a band of originally four members and now they have seven members: lead vocalist Adam Levine, keyboardist and rhythm guitarist Jesse Carmichael, bassist Mickey Madden, lead guitarist James Valentine, drummer Matt Flynn, keyboardist PJ Morton, and multi-instrumentalist Sam Farrar.