Between the Weeknd’s Super Bowl LV halftime performance and his world tour delayed to 2022, when will we (and his stylists) be free? Here’s a look back at the suit’s cursed history. Instead, that red suit has been haunting us through some of the worst moments in recent memory, even as the songs became viral megahits. “It’s all a progression, and we watch the Character’s story line hit heightened levels of danger and absurdity as his tale goes on,” the Weeknd tried his best to explain earlier this week. But across several flashy, high-concept performances and music videos released in the span of a year while we all came to grips with a crushing new reality? A little hard to follow. After worrying crowds at the AMA's, Abel explained that the look was to raise awareness against drink driving following his previous dark hit, Blinding Lights. At a concert, the story might unfold and make perfect sense: Sad man self-destructs. The Weeknd chuckles to himself as the audience gasp, smiling before the credits begin to roll on the creepy video. “This character 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,” the Weeknd told Variety last April. The first single, “Heartless,” dropped in November 2019 and kicked off the whirlwind story, but since the album came out on March 20, 2020, the rest of the project has become synonymous with our living hell. When the Weeknd was conceptualizing his fourth studio album, After Hours, inspired by the Martin Scorsese film of the same name, he probably didn’t imagine he would get stuck in a perpetual album-release cycle.
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