The Weeknd Assembles His Own Ariana Grande In 'Save Your Tears' Remix Video
As it pops up near the end of
The Weeknd's moody fourth LP
After Hours, synthpop ballad "Save Your Tears" feels maybe the most suitable to the album's title of any of its tunes. It's more hangover than party, though its gorgeous, funky sonics (and eventual robotic vocalizations) create the sort of pop turn producer Max Martin has made a career out of.
It makes sense, then, for
Ariana Grande to hop on the remix, out today (April 23), and for her contributions to leave the song even more dazzling. What's more surprising is the song's accompanying new animated video, which finds an animated Weeknd creating his own Grande out of spare parts in a underground lair.
The clip, directed by Jack Brown and produced by London animation studio Blinkink, fuses The Weeknd's chaotic, fashionable
After Hours persona with Grande's
fembot iconography she leaned heavily into for
Positions, her sixth album that dropped in October 2020. It's a nice match.
This isn't the initial time Abel Tesfaye has been a cartoon, either. Last year, he appeared on TBS's
American Dad to poke fun at his sex-fueled persona and "admit" to actually
being a virgin; his 2020 "Snowchild" video recruited Japan's D'ART Shtajio animation studio to turn him into
an anime protagonist as well.
Check out the spiffy new video above, then revisit Ari and Abel's previous collabs: "Love Me Harder" and "Off the Table."
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