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"   Photo: Getty Images  We already know that I&amp;#039;m an Adam Levine fangirl\u2014in fact, I&amp;#039;m rocking out to Maroon 5&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;The Man Who Never Lied&amp;quot; (my current favorite jam of the band&amp;#039;s EP, Overexposed) as I write this ode to my celebrity crush.       While I hardly have a chance with the musician and TV personality (after all, I&amp;#039;m more of a little Lea Michele type than leggy Behati Prinsloo, his fianc\u00E9), I still tune in night after night to watch him on NBC&amp;#039;s The Voice and listen to his music (on repeat!). So, of course, I was thrilled when I heard that People magazine chose Levine to be on the cover of this year&amp;#039;s Sexiest Man Alive issue. But I know all of you guys and gals out there don&amp;#039;t share my Levine-is-God philosophy. According to this  Jezebel story, Levine is &amp;quot;the human equivalent of testing positive for chlamydia.&amp;quot; Not sexy. I understand your complaints that, at times, he sounds like a modelizing douche, but he&amp;#039;s also done some amazing things (like giving back to the music community) and has earned his spot in my eyes as a total sexpot. Behold, my defensive top 10 list as to why I&amp;#039;d still drop my pants for Levine: He&amp;#039;s a tall Jew. If you&amp;#039;re of the Tribe, you know that Jewish men over 5 &amp;#039; 7&amp;#039;&amp;#039; are diamonds in the rough (height doesn&amp;#039;t tend to run in our genes, especially those of Ashkenazi descent). At 6&amp;#039;0&amp;#039;&amp;#039; Levine is ready to be the captain of the JCC basketball team.    Photo: Getty Images Which leads me to my next point: Levine has a sizzling, toned, tattooed body. And he&amp;#039;s happy to show it off (and I&amp;#039;m happy to ogle).  Photo: Getty Images So perhaps I need to note that he scored that six pack doing yoga and spinning, which are totally girls&amp;#039; sports! As he told Men&amp;#039;s Health, &amp;quot;I have a hard time sitting still. I can be all over the map. Yoga has given me the ability to be more focused and make better decisions that come from a clear place.&amp;quot; For the record, Adam, I can&amp;#039;t really sit still either and would be game to explore that concept with you\u2026  Photo: via YouTube And he must burn calories letting loose on stage. His rock-pop band, Maroon 5, has received three Grammy Awards, three Billboard Music Awards, two American Music Awards, and one MTV Video Music Award. Perhaps that success can be credited to the sweet high notes Levine so effortlessly hits with his falsetto\u2014or, rather, his dance moves (like Jagger, as they say).      He&amp;#039;s got great &amp;quot;Uncle Jesse&amp;quot; hair, which is definitely needed for head-whipping stage performances. Despite a slight receding hairline, which is typical for a 34-year-old man, he has the kind of thick tuft you&amp;#039;d want to run your hands through and grab, and...yeah.    Photo: Getty Images He&amp;#039;s confident, not cocky. We write tons of articles in magazines about why women should be confident, but when men are, they&amp;#039;re called cocky (dare I say that is a double standard?). So why knock Levine for believing in his gifts? He told USA Today: &amp;quot;I have a high self-opinion\u2014I don&amp;#039;t need to hide that. I don&amp;#039;t need to be self-deprecating. I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don&amp;#039;t think I&amp;#039;m entitled to it. That&amp;#039;s a big difference.&amp;quot; See? He&amp;#039;s not entitled, he&amp;#039;s just not hiding under his success. You go, boy!    Photo: Getty Images Levine has hot friends. He&amp;#039;s known on The Voice for having a serious bromance with all-American country music stud, Blake Shelton. And he&amp;#039;s buds with the theater-geek of my dreams, Matthew Morrison. In fact, Levine&amp;#039;s label, 222 Records (yes, he is also a producer\u2014so dope!), produced the Glee actor&amp;#039;s two latest albums. Said Morrison on working with Levine: &amp;quot;The great thing about Adam is he&amp;#039;s an artist himself, and he knows how an artist should be treated. He really treated me with such respect [and] he gave me such free reign to do whatever I want to do\u2026We just talked music, he was wonderful.&amp;quot; I know what you&amp;#039;re thinking\u2014well, maybe what I am thinking\u2014m\u00E9nage \u00E0 trois?  Photo: From left: with Matthew Morrison; with Blake Shelton/ Getty Images He&amp;#039;s got husband potential. And he&amp;#039;s already on his way to getting there by popping the big Q to Prinsloo. &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t think marriage was for me for a long time,&amp;quot; he told People. &amp;quot;I was ready when I was ready. That&amp;#039;s about as simple as it could possibly be.&amp;quot; And I have full faith he&amp;#039;ll be a kickass dad: He proves to be an awesome mentor to his team of budding musicians on The Voice (and even won season one). Plus, look how cute he is performing with this adorable little girl. Cue: cooing.      As a fashion girl, I must point out the guy&amp;#039;s style. Yes, he basically lives in high-end white T-shirts and rugged jeans, but at least he built a franchise for the model-off-duty classic L.A. look (he hails from Hollywood so he should own it). Recently, Levine revealed a collection for Kmart, and the offering of knit cardigans, plaid button-ups, and slim-fit jeans is actually pretty cool. Bonus: If I were ever in the fortunate position to need to borrow a morning-after T-shirt, I imagine his supply of tight tops would fit quite nice.      But he&amp;#039;s no one-trick pony. In addition to running a music label, hosting a multiple-night TV show, and fronting a hit-making band, Levine is also the face of Proactiv skincare. Plus, he is an actor as seen on his role in American Horror Story and upcoming part in the movie, Can a Song Save Your Life?. His agent must be busy!      Still not convinced? Who wouldn&amp;#039;t want to be wrapped up in those arms? Le sigh...  Photo: Getty Images "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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