Where is all the blood and carnage?
The Weeknd decided to play safely on one of the biggest stages of pop culture on Sunday during its performance at the 2021 Super Bowl in the middle.
The versatile 30-year-old decided that his own face was good enough for his big live concert, definitely not pre-recorded, instead of the weird prostheses and makeup he’s been wearing throughout his latest album.
Backed by a chorus of gospel singers, the “Starboy” singer began his performance by going through a series of mazes under the stages. When it came to its 2015 hit “I Can’t Feel My Face,” dozens of bandaged doppelgangers danced around it. At least they I risked something strange.
Later, the entire field was filled with masked backups as he sang his famous TikTok dance jam, “Blinded by the Light.”
During her exciting anthem “50 Shades of Gray,” “Earned It,” the stage lit up her now-signed porn stache, complemented by an engaging camera gesture. This is the most dramatic thing that happened to the changing face of the singer during the break.
Still, The Weeknd, with the real name of Abel Tesfaye, wore her branded red dress, in homage to her “transformation,” Richfresh designer Patrick Henry said of the dress’s brains. Her bright half-length dress, with mother-of-pearl buttons, was simple. “Everything is done in a way that looks very close together when it’s still, but it can still move because Abel likes to move.”
The year since he released his fourth studio album “After Hours”, he has had more extreme versions of what he has called “The Character”. It all started with a bloody face at the end of “Blinding Lights” in January 2020, but rose to a more messy tone by his short film “After Hours” which followed in March.
Between April and August, his “character” was further abused, showing horrific bruises in addition to blood and bandages. In November, the Weeknd completely covered his face with gauze for the American Music Awards.
It followed the bleeding face with a whole new look of “plastic surgery,” achieved by the prostheses, for “Save Your Tears” in January.
However, in the Super Bowl commercials, the singer relied on his real face, apparently abandoning the frightened characters of whom they could not stop talking. But it took him a while to explain the whole subject before the big game to those who have been baffled for months.
“The importance of all head bandages is reflecting the absurd culture of Hollywood celebrities and people being manipulated for superficial reasons to please and be validated,” he told Variety. “Everything is a progression and we see the character’s story reach more intense levels of danger and absurdity as his story continues.”
He added that fans may “consider that being attractive is not important to me, but a compelling story,” and even explained why he has gone back and forth between him and “The Character,” as he did. he called.
“Why not play with the character and the artist and let those lines blur and move?”