Adam Levine’s creepy new Maroon 5 video for Animals blasted as ‘dangerous’ by anti-stalking groups

And they've definitely got a point.

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by Emmeline Saunders |
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We've all sat, traumatised, through the new Maroon 5 video, right? The one called Animals where Adam Levine stalks his real-life wife Behati Prinsloo through an abattoir-rich series of fantasy scenes and they end up having sex while covering in animal blood, right? That's art, right?

Well, wrong, actually, if you're the The Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network (RAINN), which today has blasted Levine's creation as dangerous and trivialising criminal behaviour.

In a statement, the vice-president of communications, Katherine Hull Fliflet, explained: "Maroon 5's video for Animals is a dangerous depiction of a stalker's fantasy - and no one should ever confuse the criminal act of stalking with romance.

"The trivialisation of these serious crimes, like stalking, should have no place in the entertainment industry."

In the video, Adam's butcher character develops a seriously disturbing fixation with the woman played by Behati and starts following her around, including to a nightclub and back to her home, where he takes pictures of her asleep.

And while this is going on, the Maroon 5 frontman is singing lyrics like: "Baby, I'm preying on you tonight/Hunt you down eat you alive."

Yeah. That's creepy.

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