The Bite Magazine - Autmn/Winter 2020 - Issue 28

bitemusicceleb is having a really bad night - all these videos are taking place in one night - and you can come with your own interpretation of what it is,” he explained to Jem Aswad of Variety. “Especially in the ‘After Hours’ video, I went full-on film geek. There’s the Chinatown reference with the broken nose, the Ja- cob’s Ladder reference with the [New York] subway, King of Comedy for Jimmy Kimmel, Trouble Every Day, Possession [and] Dressed to Kill with the elevator - and of course, After Hours, Martin Scorsese’s 1985 film is the obvious inspiration with all this madness taking place in one night. That was the only on the nose reference - pun intended!” In essence, the album dives deep into the textures of pleasure and despair with a satisfying collision of new wave, dream pop, and R&B. The moody slow-burner captures the sound of a city in a sombre mood that illustrates The Weeknd’s love of dark comedies and thrillers by making movies, as the starring role, through music videos. As if to stay in character, the artist re- cently appeared in the Safdie Brothers film Uncut Gems as a pop star who gets into a fight with Howard Ratner played by Adam Sandler. At the time of writing, the latest single fromThe Weeknd is ‘Too Late’, a dark morbid twist highlighting the lust of blood and the severed head of the artist. www.theweeknd.com