When Adam Levine's two singers ended up in the bottom for the competition "The Voice," the singer was anxious to hear the results and muttered "I hate this country" under his breath.

Most likely a comment that he did not want America to hear, but thanks to a microphone his personal comment became very public on Tuesday night.

Following the show, when the lead singer of Maroon 5 realized how much of an uproar his comment caused he took to Twitter to define the words joke, humorless, lighthearted, and misunderstood.

According to USA Today, in his first tweet Levine wrote, "joke- noun 1. something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or prankish act."

He then wrote, "hu·mor·less (hymr-ls) adj. 1. Lacking a sense of humor. 2. Said or done without humor."

Followed by, "light·heart·ed Function: adjective 1 : free from care, anxiety, or seriousness : happy-go-lucky 2 : cheerfully optimistic."

Finally tweeting, "mis·un·der·stand Pronunciation: \(ˌ)mi-ˌsən-dər-ˈstand\ Date: 13th century 1 : to fail to understand 2 : to interpret incorrectly."

With that being said of course fans of the show flooded Twitter with comments concerning the controversial comment.

Mashable reported that one fan said, "If Christina woulda said "I hate this country" like Adam did today, ppl woulda tweet her so much hate but since it's Adam everything is cool."

While another fan said, "I think @adamlevine saying "I hate this country" was completely unnecessary. @NBCTheVoice @nbc."

However some fans agreed with the singer's comment, one Twitter user says, "The two best singers on @NBCTheVoice got voted off, I agree with Adam, "I hate this country." It's not the voice, it's the country show."

Another fan said, "@Rcooney13 he has the right to be pissed! at least his team had genuine talent."

On "The Voice," each week contestants with the lowest vote (Courtesy of America) gets booted off the show. According to Mashable, the NBC show allows fans to vote for their favorite artist via phone calls, texts, online through outlets such as NBC.com, Zeebox app, the NBC app, "The Voice" Live Facebook app, and as of 2011 through purchase of the artist's song on iTunes.

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