The Weeknd Gets Kinky In Disco-Tinged 'Take My Breath' Video

The Weeknd’s new song will really take your breath away. A bright new era has finally dawned, because the singer place on Earth Abel Tesfaye just dropped “Take My Breath” today (August 6), which brings a sense of retro ‘70s and ‘80s disco dance-pop club vibes.


A music video (which provides secrecy with an epilepsy warning) has also been released to accompany the single. The video introduces Tesfaye, donning a long leather jacket and rose-tinted shades, walking toward the dawning sun. He enters a concrete tunnel to a club, where he sees people dancing and getting high on oxygen under flashing lights that accompany the pulsing synths of the song. A woman decked in leather, silver jewelry, and chains strides up to him with interest, and so they dance suggestively with each other on the floor.


“Take my breath away / And make it last forever, babe / Do it right now or never, babe,” Tesfaye sings on the chorus. “Take my breath away / Nobody does it better, babe / Bring me close to heaven, babe / Take my breath.”


Later in the video, we visualize the couple leaning with each other, and Tesfaye’s love interest wraps her long braid around her neck. Suddenly, she pushes him to the other side and pulls him closesly into a chokehold, which shows she is in control. She kicks him then keeps it up and continues to rope and drag him across the floor. The video concludes with a unconscious Tesfaye awaking and catching his breath back on the dance floor, surrounded by other people dancing and minding their business.


Prior to its release, the snippets of the song were teased last week in a visual trailer and in a promo commercial on August 3 for the U.S. Track and field team in the Tokyo Olympics. The music video was also originally set to premiere in IMAX showings before the screening of The Suicide Squad however was pulled because of the concerns of the "intense strobe lighting" triggering epilepsy, according to Variety.


In his recent interview with GQ, Tesfaye stated his new album would mostly consist of party music to jam to, describing it as “Quincy Jones meets Giorgio Moroder meets the best-night-of-your-fucking-life party records.” He admitted, “It’s the album I’ve habitually wanted to make.”


The upcoming album is although to have title plus a release date reported. It will follow After Hours, which was released in 2020 and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart where it remained for four continuous weeks.