Red Pill Blues Tracklist
Red Pill Blues is the sixth studio album by American pop rock band Maroon 5. The album was released on November 3, 2017, by Interscope Records and 222.
The title of the album refers to the science fiction term of taking the red pill or the blue pill. This is the band’s first album to feature Sam Farrar as a studio member after becoming a touring member in 2012.
The album debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 122,000 copies in equivalent album units and 94,000 copies in traditional album units in its first week.
“Red Pill Blues” Q&A
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What does the title of the album refer to?
It refers to the 1999 science fiction film “The Matrix” in which the protagonist is offered a choice between taking a red pill or a blue pill. The blue pill would let him remain in the safety and blissfull ignorance of the Matrix, a simulated reality, the red pill would wake him up to freedom, knowledge and sometimes painful truth of reality. The “Blues” in the title thus refers to the adjusting to this new reality and all the painful things that can come with it. Besides this, it might also be a play of words with regards to the second pill.
