Maroon 5’s newest album, “V,” was recently released, and with it, the radio hit “Animals.”
However, the song has caught more attention for more than just its catchy tune and eccentric lyrics.
Adam Levine and his wife, Behati Prinsloo, star in the band’s music video for this new song.
The video portrays Levine as a disturbed butcher—often covered in blood–infatuated with Prinsloo, who plays his object of affection.
Throughout the video, we see Levine in various places: a meat fridge with animal carcasses, a club and even lying in bed with his unaware, sleeping victim.
The video shows the character’s fantasies with his beloved, one of them showing Levine taking pictures outside of his dearest’s home and another of the two naked together under a waterfall of blood.
Is this unsettling, erotic video simply nothing more than a grab at media attention, or could there be a deeper meaning taken from the stalker-type symbolism?
This video, although seemingly unreasonable in its creepiness, actually sends a serious message about the act of stalking.
The images that Levine portrays in this video are very real, very dangerous portrayals.
It seems that the “World’s Sexiest Man” has gone as far as to try to make stalking sexy, with a baffling mix of blood and sex.
The video was even called out by RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network). “Maroon 5’s dark and bloody new video for ‘Animals’ is being slammed as ‘dangerous’ and called a ‘stalker’s fantasy’ by the sexual assault support group RAINN,” The Huffington Post said. The article also reported that many fans were outraged on Twitter after the release of the video.
Can we really say we didn’t see this coming though?
In the world we live in, whoever does the most outrageous, outlandish things gets the most attention from the media and the people.
That in turn gets them more fame. And of course, everything nowadays is about fame and fortune.
Is this video really dangerous then?
The idea of stalking is not new, of course. But perhaps this video by such a well-known and loved band actually glorifies the idea.
However, this does not mean that someone who watched this video has now made the decision to become a stalker because of it.
The video is nothing less than raunchy.
Although the message of the video is far from uplifting and cheerful, no one should be surprised, as the lyrics of the song don’t exactly try to hide its meaning either.
This one is definitely chalked up to a cry out to the media for attention, as are most music videos, and are hardly something to worry about.
