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What Exactly Is the Weeknd Apologizing For?
His new movie (and its accompanying album) is a self-mythologizing apologia for, uh, something.
In the first half of Hurry Up Tomorrow, Tesfaye worries about his ever-weakening voice amid a relentless tour cycle where he’s tormented and inundated with partying hangers-on and lewd friend turned manager Lee (Barry Keoghan). The scene is almost audaciously bad: Tesfaye’s hysteria never registers as much more than desperate adoration for his own music and Ortega can’t thread the needle between tragic outcast and “I’m your biggest fan” mania. That character was an overt loser posing as someone cool, coaxing pop star Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp) into dirtier and sexier music through a BDSM-adjacent sexual awakening.
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