11/11/2022 0 Comments Maroon 5 animals 10 hours![]() ![]() ![]() And when his ex lets him inside her apartment, the blood flows along with the sex. The video (which I refuse to link to) stars Adam Levine and his wife, model Behati Prinsloo Levine is a psychotic madman who can’t leave his ex-girlfriend alone. However, the narrative framing shifted once the video for “Animals” was released, and the shift isn’t pretty at all. It actually sounded to me like the guy was trying to justify having kinky animal sex with this woman who otherwise despises him, and as such, that’s just sad. ![]() So all the lyrics about “preying on you tonight” and “(I’ll) eat you alive, just like animals, animals, oh oh” take on an entirely different tone in that context. Or until he has the strength to tell himself that he deserves better than a woman who’s keeping him around just for sex. Then she apparently kicks him out and pretends it didn’t happen afterward, only to repeat until she finally gets the stomach to tell him, “No more, buster.” One that deals with an obsessive love affair that’s run its course, where the couple in question has a tremendous amount of sexual chemistry and not much else, yet the male partner cannot let go quite yet and the female partner, for whatever reason, is allowing him to stick around so they can keep having great sex. (In case you haven’t read anything at all about this controversy, please see this link from the LA Times as it’ll give you a heads-up.)īut when I listened to “Animals” as a song, I heard an entirely different narrative. As a woman, I suppose I should be appalled, as the video for “Animals” seems to glorify stalking - and excessively violent and bloody stalking at that. Folks, for the past hour or so, I’ve been struggling with how I feel after hearing Adam Levine and his band, Maroon 5, sing their controversial song “Animals” while doing a guest musical performance on Saturday Night Live. ![]()
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