Adam Levine's creepy new video glorifies stalking

[cali]

In Maroon 5’s new music video, “Animals,” lead singer Adam Levine stars as a stalker whose daytime job is chopping meat in a butcher shop. Wearing a hoodie and glasses—the textbook creeper uniform—Levine lurks outside model Behati Prinsloo’s window at night. (Prinsloo is his real-life wife.) He follows her around on the street, snaps pictures of her while she’s sleeping, and writhes on animal carcasses while fantasizing about her in a meat locker. The climactic fantasy montage is a bloody mess: after Levine finds Prinsloo sipping champagne in a bar, the two end up naked in her bed and, in the video’s grand finale, eating each other alive—oh, to be newlyweds!—beneath a deluge of blood.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/03/sex-blood-and-maroon-5-pop-culture-s-wounds-run-deep.html

[cali]

1. OK, I just watched the video. It's so dumb

it almost cancels out the creepy factor.

[Systematic Chaos]

6. I agree with you 100%.

And what slays me is that Adam Levine is one of the main starring hosts of The Voice! He's supposed to have this near perfect set of pipes and a level of proficiency to decide the course of people's lives on that show, yet on this track he sounds autotuned as fucknuts.

That, to me, is the definition of "hypocrisy," and is just plain weak and totally rotten.

[locdlib]

2. I saw the video earlier this week and was quite put off by it.

It's beyond creepy.

[Systematic Chaos]

3. I think he needs to lay off on huffing the Proactiv for a bit.

[seabeyond]

4. whatever we think will entertain the teen boy. of the reddit, 4chan, gamer community. nt

[Harmony Blue]

7. Majority of Maroon 5 fans are female not male

understandable that most people don't keep up with pop music these days as pop music very boring.

[seabeyond]

8. majority of movie goers are women and not teen. yet still, the industry is geared toward teen boy

[Harmony Blue]

9. There is no evidence that makes logical sense.

Majority of consumers in our country are female and capitalists to maximize their profit gear to a female audience. The majority of Adam Levine's audience is teen/early 20's female.

Movies you see the same dynamic with rom coms or horror movies that teen females flock too. The assumption that horror and action movies are geared to male teens is a poor one. Female teens love to watch horror movies and action movies like the Fast and Furious series. If you think the success of the Fast and Furious franchise is fueled only by male teens that is a poor assumption of past gender roles.

[seabeyond]

14. thank you so much for proving my point. and yet... the story is told from male eye, for

male entertainment. and ya... i like the die hards and lethal weapon and bourne series.

and still

it is from the male eye, geared toward the teen boy...

google and research.

silly, huh? you would think that fact could sink in. and yet, it does not.

so, we women speak up and point out the obvious. day in. and day out

[LordGlenconner]

22. Yes, that is correct

I think the person you are replying to is a little out of touch.

Maroon 5 is a band geared primarily toward young women. Nothing wrong with that, but let's not pretend they are Led Zeppelin.

[GeorgeGist]

5. I'd never encountered this fellow until he was on The Daily Show recently ...

at the time I thought he was a narcissistic douchebag. It appears my first take was spot on.

[seaglass]

10. Yes your take was right. I am familiar with his music and thought he was OK until watching him

on The Voice. He's a sexist asshole and now a creep.

[seabeyond]

15. really? see. and i learned all kinds of shit with thicke, not long ago. interesting.

i know nothing about this man. i will have to ask the teens, young adults and get their take. it never hurts metioning out loud, what is happening in our culture, to my upper teen and lower twenties, kids.

makes them think. i love when that thinking goes on.

i have also learned to have quite a reach.

[seaglass]

19. Yeah he got into with Christina Aguilera on The Voice. I did like his music OK before then but he

was such an asshole to her (and she did give it back to him) that it turned me off him as a person.

My daughter is a fan of his, she thinks he's sexy but she did not see what I did on The Voice - she wouldn't stand for that bullshit - and has probably not seen this creepy video yet.

[seabeyond]

23. interesting.

isnt your daughter lower twenties? i am having a blast with my lower twenties, women. teens especially, they sure were snots, rollin eyes, in know it all, but wow. about 18.... not just a couple years of experience, they sure did start listening.

thanks. i may spend time on this later. but.... lol. so much. i want to get away i think

you know. europe is crumbling and collapsing. and texas is bumbling.

[Liberal_in_LA]

64. He's in Target ads, clothing line based on him

[frazzled]

11. Revolting

These are the things that almost make you want to put in a good word for censorship. Unfortunately, that is not possible, for it would sweep up the wrong things in its net. So we have to let disgusting crap like this stand: our only weapon is to condemn it.

[seabeyond]

16. the censorship is in our voice and dollar. nt

[lonestarnot]

12. A viagra side affect.

[seabeyond]

17. between the testosterone shots and then the viagra, we are seeing a whole new behavior.

so much to learn, to understand better. i do not know why you would say this though with this situation. i was just reading about effects of the testosterone shots to middle aged and older men, yesterday. effects on behavior. effects on marriages. i have never done research on that. i was clueless.

[Throd]

13. Too ham-fisted to be truly creepy. It sounds like they wrote the entire score in 4 minutes.

Which is about how long this song is. As a rule, it should take longer to write a song than to perform it.

[cali]

21. I agree. Hugging animal carcasses while flexing his overdeveloped overtattooed

muscles was just so ludicrous.

[snooper2]

18. art is a wonderful thing isn't it?

I never noticed but he actually has a really good voice

[Lex]

20. That guy is creepy enough already

even without the creepy video.

[snooper2]

24. That really isn't that creepy, blood sex is hot, now, you want to see creepy

Video has a warning FYI- (I don't remember threads when this came out)

[seabeyond]

25. a little bit of snuff porn to get off on, huh? normalized as entertainment.

we get it message has been clear for a good couple decades.

[snooper2]

28. not porn what I posted, it's a genre called horrorcore

Which I believe bled (get it, bled ) from the idiots that are Insane Clown Possie and their idiot followers called Juggalos-



Found a news report on it for ya!

[seabeyond]

29. let me see. all of his words and message was about jacking off to the mutilating women. right?

[snooper2]

31. rape, murder, killing and eating babies, cutting dicks off-

who fucked up scene, but-

Makes the video in the OP seem mainstream, which it is

[seabeyond]

36. which was my point, initially. nt

[yeoman6987]

26. Well guess what?

It made us pay attention. Exposure is needed for performers to stay current. Look at Miley Cyrus. Totally negative behavior but she is current. Shock and awe works in our society. He probably upped his sales 20 percent for those who want to find out what the controversy is about.

[Blue Owl]

27. There's a fine line between edgy and stupid

n/t

[Dr. Strange]

33. Nice post, Nigel Tufnel.

[joeglow3]

30. Some people are just way too uptight

I am not the biggest supporter of art, but many of these people feel they are acting out in an artistic way. You guys sound like Christians bitching about art.

[Egnever]

34. This a million times this

burning witches is next on the list.

[Blue_Adept]

35. Everything is evil

That's the theme these days. Everything is twisted, corrupt and wrong on so many levels that if you don't see it, it's because you can't process it.

[RandiFan1290]

41. They probably had the song 'Every Breath You Take'

Played at their wedding, too.

(also a stalker song)

[seabeyond]

42. look at the insults, the mere fact, media is challenged. dare not speak up, or give opinion,

cause like wise, we have duers that are sure to insult for the simple fact of voicing an opinion.

projection much?

[alp227]

57. So when is it ok to take a moral stand against art?

sometimes you don't have to be super religious to have a moral conscience and recognize problematic entertainment.

[joeglow3]

67. Are rock and roll and dungeons and dragons causing people to kill too?

Art is a reflection of reality. Be mad at reality and not the art.

[alp227]

69. Pfft. Bad comparison. D&D is fantasy.

Rock and roll, mixed bag.

[Blue_Adept]

32. hoodies and glasses are now textbook creeper uniform? WTF?

Guess just about all my geek friends and I were textbook creepers then.

Course, we had to switch to that since before we used to wear trenchcoats. That ended because it was textbook killer.

[Blue_In_AK]

37. Where's the PMRC when you need them?

[Blue_Adept]

38. It feels like a lot of them are here

Which isn't all that surprising anymore.

[name not needed]

39. I mean, who doesn't love seeing the left act like the Moral Majority?

[cali]

54. right. because criticism is "acting like the moral majority"

Maybe I should change my tagline back to what it was for a long time:

"teh stupid, it burns".

[seabeyond]

40. are you three suggesting, no one is allowed... you know, "allowed" to criticize art?

[Blue_Adept]

43. I'm suggesting it's just another poutrage

And the way it's being talked about by some is very reminiscent of those that wanted to eliminate anything they didn't like from the airwaves and stores.

[seabeyond]

45. poutage? ban? outlaw? that is what you read? or, differing opinion and the RIGHT to state opinion.

[Dont call me Shirley]

52. This video is making it cool to stalk and butcher women. K?

[joeglow3]

56. You forgot the sarcasm tag

[Dr. Strange]

63. By putting Adam Levine in it?

That's just a couple of steps above Vanilla Ice.

[alp227]

60. Slippery slope logic right there.

If a work can't withstand criticism, it's worthless.

[seaglass]

48. Maybe they think creepy stalkers are just another kink. n/t

[seabeyond]

49. and of course, there is NO discussing a kink. acceptance is the only allowed position.

you are probably correct.

torture, mutilate, away to get off on. all is fine. nothing to see here. and for goddess sake, keep opinion to self.

[Blue_In_AK]

50. God, everybody takes me so seriously around here.

Every time I make what I think is a joke, someone jumps my ass. Oh, well...

Wait...can I say "jumps my ass"?

[seabeyond]

51. really? took about the sixth poster of insulting those that criticized this before i replied.

you might of seen the funny. i on the other hand read six men insulting us.

sorry, i do not see the funny, thru your eyes.

[seaglass]

53. Was the complaining about HoF over on DI a joke too? Sometimes it's hard to tell when

someone is joking when it fits a theme.

[seabeyond]

55. oh lordy, and what the men say on DI then come over here and say wha??? wha???

more of that, huh?

fug

i kinda took him at his word. my bad.

[Blue_In_AK]

58. It wasn't me,

and I'm of the female gender. I just don't take myself too seriously. You don't need to laugh. It's okay.

[seabeyond]

59. woman to you

lady

see. i tease.

[Blue_In_AK]

61. And, I smile.

. It's all good.

I give some of you women in HoF a hard time, but I think you'd like me in person, and most likely vice versa. I just have kind of a twisted sense of humor.

[seabeyond]

62. lol. nt

[whatchamacallit]

44. 'tis poo

but I imagine his publicist would say it's more a character study of a creepy guy and his fucked-up fantasies than a glorification. Either way, they got all their prurient imagery in there.

[cwydro]

46. Yuck. nt

[seaglass]

47. Ah, this is what happens when you watch it on mute as I did a few days ago. It totally looks like

she shut him down at the bar and he is fantasizing the end but it didn't happen. Hmmm.

[nolabear]

65. That's exactly what happens. It's a fantasy.

I think it's interesting. Except I know how they do artificial blood and I kept thinking "Oh man, that must taste gross."

[nolabear]

66. It doesn't glorify stalking. It shows obsession, and fantasy, and I guess some stalking.

But it's 90% the fantasy in the mind of the dweeby butcher's boy. It's a little film. It's gross and yeah, kind of creepy. But it's art, and if you can't stand any depiction of creepy or nervous-making in art you'd better stick to Thomas Kincaid and big-eyed children...no, they're creepy as fuck.

[Rex]

68. Adam who?

Oh yeah that guy, not impressed. Better singers on the internet...oohh he has tattoos. BFD.

[JI7]

70. i have always found him to be a douchebag and his voice is fucking annoying