
“You owe me, my fans and the industry transparency. “The Grammys remain corrupt,” he said on Twitter. Recently, The Weeknd called out the Grammy Awards after the pop star walked away with zero nominations despite having multiple hits this year.

j8VwCMbrG5- Nicki Minaj Crave January 6, 2021 The weeknd look like a purge memeber💀 /DcpLU9N3Fm- justaino🌲 January 6, 2021 & Its creepy as hell /bkS8lKyri3- UrbanNoizeRmx January 6, 2021 The Weeknd really out here looking like combination of Dorian Tyrell of The Mask & handsome faced Squidward in his Save Your Tears video.

This is very fascinating to me, the weeknd really told a story this era /6Ha1RbjB5q- alex January 6, 2021 Some fans compared the Grammy-winner’s look to “Handsome Squidward”, an online joke lifted from an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants in which the octopus character becomes unexpectedly and excessively chiselled when a door is slammed in his face. “Why does The Weeknd look like that in the Save Your Tears music video!?! I don’t like it,” wrote another user. One user wrote: “Me praying the weeknd’s surgery is reversible.” Having removed the surgical bandages, the singer is seen using facial prosthetics to simulate the appearance of extreme plastic surgery, including fillers around his cheekbones and lips.įans shared their reactions to The Weeeknd’s “new face” on Twitter. The Weeknd acepta el premio al álbum favorito de soul / R&B en el escenario de los American Music Awards 2020Getty Images for dcp The video for “Save Your Tears” sees the musician wearing the same red suit jacket worn at his last two public appearances. Now, it appears that the two instances were a setup for his latest music video, which dropped on Tuesday (5 January).

Two months later, The Weeknd – real name Abel Makkonen Tesfaye – appeared at the American Music Award ceremony in November wearing bandages on his face. In August last year, the R&B artist prompted concern from some fans when he took to the stage with an apparently bloodied face during the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony. That said, he’s set to perform at the Superbowls half-time show in February, so we’ll get to see where the story goes next.The Weeknd has unveiled the latest development of his “makeover” in his music video for “Save Your Tears”. The Weeknd says he created scary plastic surgery face in music video to reflect celebrities manipulating themselves.

So yes, the Weeknd just has prosthetics for now, and good ones thanks to Prosthetic Renaissance - the people behind Heidi Klum’s famed Halloween costumes. They’re themes that have always been present in The Weekend’s work, especially his early stuff, but now he seems to be buttressing the story by playing his character in real life. The videos he’s dropped since the album’s release at the end of 2019 have all revolved around a storyline of a performer whose life of excess quickly devolves into one of chaos, madness, and soul-sucking narcissism (you can read a deep dive about the music videos’ entire cinematic universe here). In the way that Sacha Baron Cohen has Borat, the Weeknd has crafted this sort of dead-eyed, inscrutable performer persona to illustrate the damages of excess.Īt least, that’s what it seems like. A post shared by The Weeknd as it turns out, the Weekend seems to be playing a character based on his latest studio album, After Hours.
