The Weeknd's Look in "Save Your Tears" Video Horrifies Fans

In November 2020, The Weeknd covered his face with surgical dressing to accept an award onstage at the American Music Awards.

On Tuesday, The Weeknd debuted some disturbing alterations to his face, akin to extreme plastic surgery, in the video for his new song, “Save Your Tears,” from his “After Hours” album.

The footage featured the 30-year-old singer with a thinned and crooked nose, bloated cheeks, puffed-up lips, surgery scars, and other horrific new features.

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The exaggerated new look definitely left viewers shook.

“Why does The Weeknd look like that in the Save Your Tears music video!?! I don’t like it,” said a horrified fan, while another shared lyrics from the singer's 2018 hit “Can’t Feel My Face” to pinpoint a downside to the prosthetics, saying, “I bet he really can't feel his face now.”

One fan speculated that it was “shade” and response to getting snubbed by the now-postponed 2021 Grammy Awards, a move that apparently left him emotionally bruised — if not physically — and he has continued to vent about.

On November 24, he tweeted about the "injustice", tweeting: "The Grammys remain corrupt. You owe me, my fans and the industry transparency,".

While others suggested that his new look was a new line of work: playing the Batman villain The Joker. Some even drew comparisons to late, surgery-obsessed singer Michael Jackson, and called him a “modern version” of him.