{"id":50839,"date":"2018-10-19T15:38:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T15:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/05\/29\/adam-levine-caught-on-hot-mic-i-hate-this-country-responds-to-backlash-with-douche-tweets\/"},"modified":"2018-10-19T15:38:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T15:38:59","slug":"adam-levine-on-hot-mic-i-hate-this-country-sends-douche-tweets-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/50839","title":{"rendered":"Adam Levine on hot mic: ‘I hate this country’; Sends douche-tweets;&nbsp;Updated"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ohheyjoshay\/status\/339561844412919809\n<p>Yes, yes he did. On “The Voice” Tuesday night, a hot mic picked up coach Adam Levine saying, “I hate this country,” as one member of Team Adam advanced and two others were voted off the show.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='430' height='272' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WkMBATwUyYg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Chris_1791\/status\/339657840534896641\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/VoiceOTheTigers\/status\/339563330626793472\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/NDependentMiss\/status\/339562713460121600\n<p>Apology? That’s not really Levine’s style.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/04\/26\/adam-levine-issues-an-ultimatum\/\">Obama superfan<\/a> and Maroon 5 singer tweeted four dictionary definitions:&nbsp;&nbsp;joke, humorless, lighthearted and misunderstand. Translation: You guys are idjits and I’m not apologizing. Typical douche move.<\/p>\n<p>joke-\nnoun\n1. something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or prankish act&mdash; Adam Levine (@adamlevine) <a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/adamlevine\/status\/339663340861259776' data-datetime='2013-05-29T08:43:45+00:00'>May 29, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<p>hu·mor·less   (hymr-ls)\nadj.\n1. Lacking a sense of humor.\n2. Said or done without humor&mdash; Adam Levine (@adamlevine) <a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/adamlevine\/status\/339664009173278720' data-datetime='2013-05-29T08:46:25+00:00'>May 29, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<p>light·heart·ed\nFunction: adjective\n1 : free from care, anxiety, or seriousness : happy-go-lucky 2 : cheerfully optimistic&mdash; Adam Levine (@adamlevine) <a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/adamlevine\/status\/339664760041783296' data-datetime='2013-05-29T08:49:24+00:00'>May 29, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<p>mis·un·der·stand\nPronunciation: (ˌ)mi-ˌsən-dər-ˈstand\nDate: 13th century\n1 : to fail to understand 2 : to interpret incorrectly&mdash; Adam Levine (@adamlevine) <a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/adamlevine\/status\/339666725530382336' data-datetime='2013-05-29T08:57:12+00:00'>May 29, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Classless, kind of like the time Levine insisted <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/09\/01\/adam-levine-its-ok-for-me-to-be-an-anti-mormon-bigot-because-mormons-are-bigots\/\">it was cool for him to be an anti-Mormon bigot because Mormons are bigots<\/a>.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/RickCanton\/status\/339732296364093440\n<p>Update:<\/p>\n<p>Levine’s now blaming “frustration” for his douchiness.<\/p>\n<p>His official statement, via <a href=\"http:\/\/insidetv.ew.com\/2013\/05\/29\/adam-levine-i-love-my-country\/\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">&ldquo;I obviously love my country very much and my comments last night were made purely out of frustration. Being a part of&nbsp;The Voice, I am passionately invested in my team and want to see my artists succeed. Last night&rsquo;s elimination of Judith and Sarah was confusing and downright emotional for me and&nbsp; my comments were made based on my personal dissatisfaction with the results.&nbsp; I am very connected to my artists and know they have long careers ahead, regardless of their outcome on the show.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>We await his forthcoming apologies to all the “humorless” people he insulted.<\/p><p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/05\/29\/adam-levine-caught-on-hot-mic-i-hate-this-country-responds-to-backlash-with-douche-tweets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/05\/29\/adam-levine-caught-on-hot-mic-i-hate-this-country-responds-to-backlash-with-douche-tweets\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ohheyjoshay\/status\/339561844412919809 Yes, yes he did. On “The Voice” Tuesday night, a hot mic picked up coach Adam Levine saying, “I hate this country,” as one member of Team Adam advanced and two others were voted off the show. http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Chris_1791\/status\/339657840534896641 http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/VoiceOTheTigers\/status\/339563330626793472 http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/NDependentMiss\/status\/339562713460121600 Apology? That’s not really Levine’s style. The Obama superfan and Maroon 5 singer tweeted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/50839\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adam Levine on hot mic: ‘I hate this country’; Sends douche-tweets;&nbsp;Updated<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1013,"featured_media":50840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/15399635399668-adam-levine.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}