Wait guys tell me if I'm overthinking this but from The Hills, that creepy dude seems to represent the devil or like something evil and this video seemed really heavy in symbolism, like nobody liked him until he got help from the dude to be on fire (go full pop/"sell out"), but then everybody loved him even though he was really being burned.
Wait guys tell me if I'm overthinking this but from The Hills, that creepy dude seems to represent the devil or like something evil and this video seemed really heavy in symbolism, like nobody liked him until he got help from the dude to be on fire (go full pop/"sell out"), but then everybody loved him even though he was really being burned.
Idk something about it just felt... off to me
I think you're spot on. The symbolism in this video is so simple but clever at the same time.
I think the weeknd is telling a story about his old fans and new fans. The girl who threw alcohol on him is his old fans. We still love him, support, keep listening to him but deep down there we hate how he changed to mainstream artist. The girl who is dancing and enjoying his music( which is Asian girl) is his new fans or the fans who enjoyed kiss land more then trilogy(which we all know kiss land is Asian inspired). Basically the girl who put alcohol on him and keep listening to him is his old fans and the Asian girl who kept dancing and enjoying is his new fans which they will enjoy no matter what. At the end of the video that old guy threw fire on him (which indicates hell) he refers that he is already in to hell(mainstream) and he can't go back to old him so he just keep dancing cause there is no way back.
Wait guys tell me if I'm overthinking this but from The Hills, that creepy dude seems to represent the devil or like something evil and this video seemed really heavy in symbolism, like nobody liked him until he got help from the dude to be on fire (go full pop/"sell out"), but then everybody loved him even though he was really being burned.
Idk something about it just felt... off to me
The video just went from boring to intriguing, I like this theory
Wait guys tell me if I'm overthinking this but from The Hills, that creepy dude seems to represent the devil or like something evil and this video seemed really heavy in symbolism, like nobody liked him until he got help from the dude to be on fire (go full pop/"sell out"), but then everybody loved him even though he was really being burned.
Idk something about it just felt... off to me
She probably mad that Can't Feel My Face is bigger than The Hills when the latter is better
edit: No, but actually the point of it is he's selling out