The video starts at a butcher shop with an attractive woman walking in to buy meat. The butcher is Adam Levine, the lead singer from Maroon 5. After the visit from the woman to the butcher shop, Levine gets obsessed with her and he starts stalking the woman. He takes pictures of her while he follows her everywhere. If that’s not scary enough, he even sneaks into her house while she is asleep to lie down next to her and watch her sleep. In the video Levine fantasizes about having sex with the woman while soaked in blood. The video is rather graphic. This video is not one you would see in MTV or any music video channel at all, it seems more to me like something a “Dexter” episode would show. …show more content…
I would think he is because throughout the whole video it is symbolized many times. The fact that in the video Levine is a butcher says a lot. At one point in the video Levine is in a dark room revealing the photographs he has taken while following the woman, in this room there are large animal corpses hooked and hanging from the ceiling. It’s like he is waiting for the right moment to do what he is planning on doing to her and just adding her to his list. She will just be another one from the many. This further portrays women in this video as just being prey. Are women just pieces of meat? Are they possessions, just something to be used? I don’t think so and in my opinion this video is implying