Psychotic

Adam Levine, frontman for Maroon 5 and popular coach on the hit show “The Voice” is facing new protests over his blood-soaked “Animals” video from rape crisis groups for “glorifying” a criminal act. TheImproper first broke the story three days ago (Sept. 29), reporting a brewing outcry over social media because of the video’s depiction of serial stalking. In the clip, Levine plays a psychopathic loner who works in a butcher shop. He unknowingly stalks a beautiful woman played by his new wife, model Behati Prinsloo....

Adam Levine plays an obsessive stalker in a video for Maroon 5’s song “Animals” that’s raising ire over the Internet, especially among women, for its misogynistic and sexist themes. Not to mention it’s just creepy. The video opens with Prinsloo, a worldclass model from Nambia, walking into a butcher shop. Levine is working behind the counter. Levine’s character takes surreptitious photos of his prey and has them strung up in his apartment, a la the 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni film “Blow Up.”...