Maroon 5’s new music video ‘Animals’, makes me wonder. If you haven’t seen it yet, let me warn you, it’s really creepy. Adam Levine and his wife, Behati Prinsloo, play the parts of stalker and the stalker’s obsession. Maroon 5 glamourizes the creepy stalker singing, “Baby, I’m preying on you tonight/ Hunt you down eat you alive/Just like animals…”. Really?
Taking us from a butcher shop, to a meat locker, to a night club, then finally to Behati’s bedroom, the video is something most women would find disturbing. Okay, I can see the connection between the meat locker and the night club, but what about the stalker in her bedroom? And what about the “happily ever after” ending where they’re being covered with blood? This “Carrie” moment is down right sick. I don’t mean that in a good way. Sick, as in gross.
Organized women’s rights groups are outraged by the video. The National Sexual Violence Resource Center, berated Levine for the vile treatment of his own wife. Katherine Hull Fliflet, the Vice President of Communications for the Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network (RAINN) states, “… no one should ever confuse the criminal act of stalking with romance.” She continues, “The trivialization of these serious crimes, like stalking, should have no place in the entertainment industry.”
RAINN provides help to survivors 24/7 through the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE and online at rainn.org.
What do you think? Has Maroon 5 crossed the line? Are Adam Levine and his wife, Behati Prinsloo, glamorizing stalking?
