It Won’t Be Soon Before Long will keep the fellas entertaining large rooms for the foreseeable future, with its combination of R&B grit, glossy melodies and sharp poplatin hooks. More muscular and ambitious than Jane,Long is teeming with current and soon-to-be hits: Makes Me Wonder and Wake Up Call have already made sizable dents in the charts, with Little of Your Time,Back at Your Door and Won’t Go Home Without You waiting in the wings. “I want to grab people’s attention, in general, and I think that comes through in the songwriting,” says Levine. “I want to do exciting things — we don’t want to do generic things that everyone else does. While we do play pop music, we think our particular brand of pop music is unlike a lot of other current pop music. Maybe I’m wrong, but that’s how I see it.” Throughout the conversation, the 28-year-old, fittingly, drifts between the singular and the plural — as the band’s lead vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter, Levine tends to be pushed to the fore of most any conversation about Maroon 5. But while appearing front and center on a Rolling Stone cover might imply that he is quietly, slowly pulling away from his four bandmates, Levine patiently dismisses the idea of striking out on his own, stranding the group high and dry.