The Weeknd surely includes ‘new year, new you’.
The 30-year-old singer has undergone some disturbing changes to his face – similar to extreme plastic surgery – in the video for his new song, “Save Your Tears”, which premieres on Tuesday and from his “After Hours” album come.
“But then you see me, surprise you,” he sings aptly in the video in which he displays a thinned (and crooked) nose, puffy cheeks, puffy lips, surgical scars and other horrible new features.
His grotesquely exaggerated new look definitely shook viewers.
“Why does The Weeknd look like this in the Save Your Tears music video!?! I do not like it, ” says one terrified fan, while another text was borrowed from his 2018 hit “Can’t Feel My Face” to indicate the disadvantage of prosthetics, say, “I bet he really can not feel his face now.”
A fan speculate that it was ‘shadow’ and a reaction to the postponement of the 2021 Grammy Awards, which apparently bruised him emotionally – albeit not physically – and he continued to take risks.
Other tweeters suggested a new line of work: plays the Batman villain The Joker. Some, meanwhile, comparisons drawn to – and call him a “Modern version” of – the late, surgery-obsessed singer Michael Jackson.
Reps for The Weeknd did not immediately respond to The Post’s request to comment on whether its disturbing new appearance was achieved through prosthetics or CGI.
The fact that The Weeknd, which will perform in the 2021 Super Bowl on February 20, is obviously nothing new.
The music video for his single “Blinding Lights” saw his bloody and bruised face bend – a look he created in August last year for the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards.
And in November, he covered his again battered face with surgical gown to accept an award on stage at the American Music Awards.
