99.9% of the people who have listened to Maroon 5's "Girls Like You"
(2018) most likely did not notice this, but James Valentine's guitar
riff is way more than just a repetitive background loop. It evolves and
changes throughout the song via creative filtering, octave doubling, and
level balancing.
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