Singer Sia's Elastic Heart music video features 28-year-old Shia LaBeouf and child dancer Maddie Ziegler.
Both the actor and the 12-year-old - whom are wearing flesh coloured underwear - are seen trapped inside an oversized bird cage as they perform an interpretative dance, which many have described as looking like 'wrestling'.
And, as a result, many viewers have branded the video as 'disturbing' and 'paedophiliac' online.
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One particularly furious viewer commented: "Powerful and art my ass! This is promoting pedophiles... are you stupid or evil?
"Seeing a kid - because that's what she, is a kid - and a greasy old f**king man grabbing her and go on top of her; it's disgusting."
However Sia herself has defended the video against criticism, insisting that she chose to pit the underage dancer against Shia was her attempts at representing two forms of herself.
The singer added that her younger self is trying to pull her adult persona out of a ‘trapped cage’ she makes for herself.
Taking to her Twitter account, she wrote: "I anticipated some 'pedophelia!!!' cries for this video.
"All I can say is Maddie and Shia are two of the only actors I felt could play these two warring 'Sia' self states."