(MyFoxBoston.com) -- The new music video for musical group Maroon 5's song "Animals" is receiving backlash from the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network.
The video shows the group's frontman and singer Adam Levine as a man who works for a butcher shop, who begins following and becomes obsessed with a woman, played by Levine's real-life wife, Behati Prinsloo. The video cuts between scenes of Levin following Prinsloo, hoping she will notice him, and scenes of Levine in a meat locker, drenching himself in blood and grabbing on to sides of raw meat while fantasizing that he and the woman are in bed together.
"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 statement reads. "The trivialization of these serious crimes, like stalking, should have no place in the entertainment industry."
An opinion piece in Time harshly criticized the "disturbing" video, and a piece in The Guardian said that it "insults every woman."
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