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Who’s Afraid of the Weeknd?


Trying to get inside the twisted mind of Abel Tesfaye at Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights.

The bar offers three drinks all named after Weeknd songs: “Too Late,” “Is There Someone Else?,” and “How Do I Make You Love Me?” Ordering them feels like a twisted version of the affirmations of Cafe Gratitude. That scene is followed by a puppet that melds all three Weeknds with a big scary bug — possibly a cockroach or a bedbug; the strobing makes it impossible to tell. It’s a cycle that even the next album doesn’t seem ready to give up — “ Dancing in the Flames ” seems to show the Weeknd dying in a car crash and winding up in purgatory.

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