Levine debuted his "corn hawk," as he calls it, on his Instagram Story yesterday during a workout session. The video showed the Maroon 5 frontman doing weighted pushups with heavy chains draped over his back: an admittedly impressive feat, but all people saw were those blond braids. Gird your loins and scroll down to see the corn hawk up close.
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Adam Levine's New Cornrows Are Certainly a Choice
Levine was also photographed out and about showing off his new look ("out and about" here meaning "in public," as in the place where other human beings can see you and everything), and as you might have been able to predict, the internet has some thoughts.
Adam Levine's New Cornrows Are Certainly a Choice
adam levine shaved his head and got cornrows and i'm unwell pic.twitter.com/gzULeQxSfo sophia (@sophsa)
This isn't the first time Levine has caught the internet's attention: his shirtless performance at this year's Super Bowl halftime show launched a thousand memes , and he ended up taking to Instagram to address his "haters" .
Listen, I'm all about rockin' your own style and "you doing you." But, Someone please tell Adam Levine that dreadlocks for white dudes is NEVER OK. pic.twitter.com/6GEofiOwZf Matt Kelly (@mattkellyradio)
Just last month, Counting Crows singer Adam Duritz finally did the right thing and shaved off the signature dreadlocks that he'd been rocking for the last few decades. And now, as if to fulfill some kind of ancient prophecy ("there must always be one white band frontman named Adam with an ill-advised, traditionally black hairstyle at any given moment"), Levine has taken his place.