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Mickey Guyton is helping Maroon 5 look for a “Middle Ground.” On Friday, the group released a new version of their emotional single, this time featuring vocals from the country star.
“I am so, so grateful to Maroon 5 for letting me be a part of this beautiful song,” Guyton wrote on Instagram, sharing the track. “I hope y’all love it as much as I do.”
The single art for the song looks as if it was drawn by one of Adam Levine’s children, featuring a child’s handwriting and images of suns, butterflies, and hearts with smiley faces.
“Sisters and brothers are picking sides / and both of our mothers are terrified,” Levine croons on the track backed by Guyton before she sings on her own: “And I’m crying out to an empty sky / tell me, if I hit the ground / and I fall down to my knees, would you hear the sound.”
The new single comes as Maroon 5 concludes their Las Vegas residency this weekend with final shows Friday and Saturday at Dolby Live at Park MGM. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Guyton is set to join Levine onstage for a “Middle Ground” performance on Saturday.
Maroon 5’s most recent album,Jordi, arrived in June of 2021. The mournful LP was named after and dedicated to Jordan Feldstein, the band’s manager and a friend of Levin’s since childhood, who died in 2017. They also joined Bantu, Latto, and Yung Bleu on “One Light” last year.
The Maroon 5 collab is Guyton’s third this year after releasing “Nothing Compares to You” with Kane Brown and “Home Movies” with Lukas Graham. Guyton dropped her last full-length project, Remember Her Name, in 2021.
