ItвЂ™s more a commentary on how his celebrity status makes him vulnerable to a prying gaze at all times. ItвЂ™s not that he fears his fans will hurt him.

In both cases, he seems to be comparing fandom to an unsettling loss of privacy, one where his very safety is at stake. In all the videos, people are constantly watching him, whether itвЂ™s the crowd of stiff, masked fans in the вЂњ Save Your TearsвЂќ music video or the frantic crowd reaching out to grab him as he tries to escape at the end of вЂњ Until I Bleed Out.вЂќ However, another key emerges in the videos from the вЂњAfter HoursвЂќ album. Thompson, played by Johnny Depp, often hallucinates or spirals out of control. HeвЂ™s noted that, when scripting his music videos for вЂњAfter Hours,вЂќ he was inspired by the film вЂњFear and Loathing in Las Vegas,вЂќ in which writer Hunter S.

Initially, IвЂ™d assumed the bruises and bandages were a metaphor for The WeekndвЂ™s struggle with drug addiction, a topic he has long explored in his music. The Weeknd/YouTubeДЄs an anthropologist who has been analyzing the societal implications of plastic surgery for over 15 years, I was struck by The WeekndвЂ™s use of this medical practice. In The WeekndвЂ™s music video for вЂSave Your Tears,вЂ™ the bandages come off, revealing a face changed by faux plastic surgery.

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