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"The trivialization of these serious crimes, like stalking, should have no place in the entertainment industry."
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"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," RAINN's Katherine Hull Fliflet said in a statement on Wednesday. The dark imagery has drawn harsh criticism from the sexual assault support group RAINN, which deemed its message "dangerous." But coupled with the video's stalker imagery, it's not hard to see why their message can be perceived as a violent game of cat and mouse where the female object of Levine's desire is threatened, endangered, and powerless. The group is clearly using the idea of animals as a musical metaphor for primitive desire. Maybe you think that you can hide / I can smell your scent from miles / Just like animals," Levine sings in his signature falsetto. "Baby, I'm preying on you tonight / Hunt you down eat you alive. It ends chillingly with Levine standing outside in a dark storm, watching from the outside of her home.
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The end of the clip reveals that Levine's been watching and photographing her from afar and fantasizing about the gory, bloody sex scene. Levine is seen lurking around Prinsloo, curling up next to her sleeping body in bed and bathing with her in a shower of blood. In the Samuel Bayer-directed clip, Levine plays a man who photographs, follows and daydreams about being with Prinsloo, who seems unaware of his presence and ignores his come-ons in a bar.