--- title: The Voice Judge Adam Levine Covers R. Kelly Ignition Remix: Video description: Bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce canonical: https://time.com/3636064/adam-levine-r-kelly-ignition-remix-cover/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-16T17:44:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:15:23.321Z og:title: Adam Levine's Cover of R. Kelly's 'Ignition (Remix)' Is Surprisingly Great og:description: Bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce og:url: https://time.com/3636064/adam-levine-r-kelly-ignition-remix-cover/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9c67b216e9e2bc34/69876f1be53abab63d4d6935/screen-shot-2014-12-16-at-12-11-40-pm.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-12-16 at 12.11.40 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Adam Levine's Cover of R. Kelly's 'Ignition (Remix)' Is Surprisingly Great twitter:description: Bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9c67b216e9e2bc34/69876f1be53abab63d4d6935/screen-shot-2014-12-16-at-12-11-40-pm.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Adam Levine's Cover of R. Kelly's 'Ignition (Remix)' Is Surprisingly Great by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Dec 16, 2014 5:44 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Dec 16, 2014 5:44 PM UTC Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine is just like the rest of us — in the sense that he would totally prefer singing R. Kelly’s “Ignition (Remix)” instead of literally any song by Maroon 5\. (Seriously, when you’re at karaoke faced with the choice between R. Kelly and Maroon 5, you know you’re going with R. Kelly. Every time.) And so, at a recent _The Voice_ coaches concert, Levine performed one of his band’s songs, “Sunday Morning,” before launching into the _real_ performance, the part that _actually mattered._ The R. Kelly part. You probably think you’re going to hate this, but give it a chance, because it’s surprisingly good and kind of makes us want to go to karaoke with Adam Levine. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3636064/adam-levine-r-kelly-ignition-remix-cover/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3636064/adam-levine-r-kelly-ignition-remix-cover/"},"headline":"Adam Levine's Cover of R. Kelly's 'Ignition (Remix)' Is Surprisingly Great","datePublished":"2014-12-16T17:44:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:15:23.321Z","description":"Bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce","url":"https://time.com/3636064/adam-levine-r-kelly-ignition-remix-cover/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","adam levine"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9c67b216e9e2bc34/69876f1be53abab63d4d6935/screen-shot-2014-12-16-at-12-11-40-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9c67b216e9e2bc34/69876f1be53abab63d4d6935/screen-shot-2014-12-16-at-12-11-40-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-12-16 at 12.11.40 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3636064/adam-levine-r-kelly-ignition-remix-cover/","name":"Adam Levine's Cover of R. Kelly's 'Ignition (Remix)' Is Surprisingly Great"}}]}] ```