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But in this video, that’s a violent act, not a romantic one– because Levine has a camera and a meat locker full of bloody carcasses.īut that blurry line is exactly why Levine’s creepy obsession could be easily misinterpreted as adoration. Think of John Cusack in Say Anything, James Van Der Beek in Varsity Blues, Freddy Eynesford Hill in My Fair Lady, Romeo in the balcony scene. There are tons of examples of lovelorn men standing outside a window to signal their devotion– it’s a romantic staple that’s so common it’s become a corny trope. Take, for example, the part where Adam Levine stands outside Prinsloo’s window watching her through his psychopath-glasses. We can see that he’s fit, because he does all those pull-ups in his meat-hanging room. Is he supposed to seem tortured and artistic because he has hundreds pictures of this girl that he developed himself in his dark room? Maybe we should think he’s adventurous, because he sneaks into her house to take pictures of her while she sleeps. It’s disturbing to see Levine glamorized in this video as some kind of hopeless romantic, because all his psychopathic behaviors are recast as attractive qualities. But ‘Animals’ takes that violence to a whole new level. This isn’t the first time Levine has used violence to talk about love– Maroon 5’s 2010 video ‘ Misery‘ featured Levine getting beaten up by a girl in a sort of love-dance.
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And because there’s a real relationship underneath all the fake blood, the video risks making stalking seem like a legitimate or even attractive version of normal courtship behavior.
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Levine and Prinsloo only married in July, which makes the whole bloody-murder-fantasy seem like a perverted newlywed game. Mixing stalking with romantic pursuit is exactly the problem, and the fact that the girl in question is played by Levine’s real-life wife makes that line even blurrier.