Canadian singer The Weeknd has been featured in sixty-two music videos. A noted cinephile, many of his music videos were inspired by various films.[1] From his compilation album Trilogy (2012), Tesfaye released four music videos for the songs "The Knowing", "Rolling Stone", "Wicked Games" and "The Zone", which featured Drake.[2] For his debut studio album Kiss Land (2013), he released five music videos for the title track, "Twenty Eight", "Belong to the World", "Live For" and "Pretty".[3]
To promote his fifth studio album Dawn FM (2022), The Weeknd released six music video's up til now, for the songs "Take My Breath", "Sacrifice", "Gasoline", "Out of Time", "How Do I Make You Love Me?" and "Is There Someone Else?". A part of the title track "Dawn FM" is included in the "Sacrifice" music video. He also released two one-minute trailers for the album, and made a music video for the remix of "Sacrifice" by Swedish House Mafia on the deluxe version of the album, Dawn FM (Alternate World), and a music video with Swedish House Mafia, for the song Moth to a Flame, also on Dawn FM (Alternate World). Five of the eight music video's were (co-)directed by Cliqua.
Tesfaye is seen crawling out of a wrecked car that has flipped over. As he walks down the street, he is enragedly pushed by a woman, but he ignores her and the vehicle implodes. He goes into a house, walks up the stairs to a red coloredly lit up room with Wilder (representing a personification of the devil) there with two groupies on a couch.
Tesfaye performs at a bar to an unimpressed audience, with the exception of a seduced Iman, a woman throws a cup of unknown liquid on Tesfaye until Wilder arrives and sets him on fire by throwing a lighter on him and all the bar patrons cheer and start dancing, and Tesfaye continues performing, then leaves the club and leans into the camera and begins to melt it.
As a part of an advertisement for Apple Music, the video follows Tesfaye as he leaves a venue and heads for a limo, driven by Travolta, taking him to an afterparty.
Tesfaye reinvents himself by killing his former persona after sitting on the opposite end of a dining table wearing a mask and then ties up and suffocates the former persona with a plastic bag, and then proceeds to smash all his awards in his hills residence with a neoncrucifix and then drives a red McLaren P1 with a black panther (originally a house cat) riding upfront along winding cliff roads. At the 2016 MTV Europe Music Awards, it won Best Video.
Originally released as an exclusive vertical video on Spotify, the video was formally released to celebrate the three-year anniversary of the release of Tesfaye's debut extended play My Dear Melancholy (2018).
The video focuses on Tesfaye and Metro Boomin as they explore Las Vegas. It ends with Tesfaye licking a psychoactive toad and experiencing hallucinations.
Tesfaye and West dance together and exchange breaths through an oxygen tank at a pulsating nightclub, before Tesfaye's breath is literally taken away as he gets strangled in West's braids.
Rosalía performs at a dimly lit nightclub and seduces Tesfaye into joining her onstage. The two dance together until Tesfaye is stabbed by Rosalía with a hidden dagger.
After the events of the "Take My Breath" music video, Tesfaye wakes up and gets abducted by some cloaked figures. He is tied up and his soul gets taken by an unknown red cloaked woman.
An older version of Tesfaye finds himself trapped in a disturbing dance party. As he tries to escape, he sees a younger version of himself amongst the crowd, with tears streaming down his face. When the two meet, the younger version attacks the older version and leaves him bruised.
After the events of the "Gasoline" music video, the younger version of Tesfaye and Jung sing karaoke and begin a whirlwind romance alone in a hotel. His older version tries to reach out, but wakes up in an operating room as Carrey places a mask on his face. The video pays homage to Lost in Translation (2003).
Tesfaye, Metro Boomin, Diddy and 21 Savage are surveilled by a mystery woman on a rainy night. Mario Winans, the original artist of I Don't Wanna Know, which Creepin' partially covers, makes a cameo.