The Weeknd Puts Your Brain On Spin Cycle In Mind-Scrambling Colbert Performance

The Weeknd's spaced-out and delirious efficiency of his new single "Heartless" on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert will make your cerebellum do origami. It was wild, to mention the absolute least, and you'll probably grow a phobia for long, winding corridors. As soon as it ends, you'll mention "huh?" And scratch the left side of your head, wondering where the trick was at. That's what makes it so endearing.


Colbert introduced The Weeknd by panning the camera to where the singer was supposed to be onstage. The host's musical group looked back at him curiously, and then Colbert himself started to wonder where The Weeknd was. The cameraman then goes to look for the singer, who's apparently in the back enjoying a cocktail before the show. So he won't get lost again, the camera follows his journey to the stage. Neither of these could have had a clue about the journey that they could be undertaking.


The Weeknd trades in the glass for a microphone and gives an impromptu efficiency of "Heartless" on his way to the stage, jumping, thrusting, and sliding like some sort of dancing magician attempting to loosen his legs for the real show.


It's here that things get weird.


The lights start to flicker while he moves, and suddenly, entire stretches of hallway start to shift into nothingness. However out of the black void comes other hallways and once they change, the lights cycle from a neon blue to the red of a fire truck's siren. Before long, The Weeknd isn't even worried about getting to the stage; he's totally immersed himself in this in-between realm, having a blast playing the song while he's literally lost in late-night show limbo.


As he finishes the song, he keeps it up and continues to walk down one of the several changing hallways and he, surprisingly, ends up on the stage of Colbert, prepared to perform for real this time. And however, no time has passed since he came from backstage before his performance. You're left with so several trans-dimensional and time-traveling questions that you have no choice although to give a slow clap to the singer for scrambling your brain like that.


The Weeknd released "Heartless" in November. He shared the trippy video for it earlier this month and also another single, "Blinding Lights."


Check out The Weeknd's wild efficiency on Colbert up above.