When new Abel (with short hair) kills old Abel (with towering dreadlocks) in the prelude to the “Starboy” video, he doesn’t just shoot or stab him. It’s morbid imagery from a grim singer whose uncanny evolution from dreary, dizzying songs about deathly excess to massive dance records for the pop marketplace still defies belief, given how little he’s changed in the way of themes and tone. In “Mania,” the music video for a medley of songs from the album, the Weeknd knifes a man to death, splattering pints of blood across white bathroom walls. The “False Alarm” video features a bank heist, a kidnapping, and a close-quarters shootout. The video for the album’s title single stages a burglary following a murder. Each of the Weeknd’s music videos for Starboy depicts violence.
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