Adam Levine agreed to do the Voice US so people would think he was smart

Adam Levine has claimed he signed up for The Voice US because he didn't want people to think he was a "bimbo" anymore.

Talking to Details magazine the 'Never Gonna Leave The Bed' hitmaker said he "always felt a little mis­rep­res­en­ted in the world".

"I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls. A little bit of a bimbo. Maybe I was kind of a bimbo," he noted.

"I was the music dude that was naked all the time with the girls, and that's fine, no problem with that. But I wanted to create a little balance. When the show came around, I thought, 'People now know that I have a brain.'"

Mind you, there might have been an ulterior motive too: "We'd released our third record and it wasn't doing well. We weren't irrel­ev­ant, but we needed to shake things up."