The Weeknd certainly embraces “new year, new you.”
The 30-year-old singer has some disturbing facial changes – akin to extreme plastic surgery – in the video for his new song, “Save Your Tears,” which premiered on Tuesday and is from his album “After Hours.”
“But then you saw me, surprised you,” he aptly sings in the video, showing a thinned (and crooked) nose, puffy cheeks, puffy lips, surgical scars and other gruesome new features.
Its grotesquely exaggerated new look absolutely shook viewers.
“Why does The Weeknd look like this in the Save Your Tears music video!?! I do not like it, ” said a shocked fan, while another borrowed lyrics from his 2018 hit ‘Can’t Feel My Face’ to point out a downside to the prosthetics, saying“I bet he really can’t feel his face right now.”
A fan speculated it was “shadow.” and a response to being disapproved of by the now-delayed 2021 Grammy Awards, a move that apparently left him emotionally bruised – if not physically – and has continued to vent.
Other tweeters proposed a new line: playing the Batman villain The Joker. Some, meanwhile, drew comparisons to – and called him one “Modern version” the late surgery-obsessed singer Michael Jackson.
Representatives for The Weeknd did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment on whether his troubling new look was achieved through prosthetics or CGI.
Of course, putting on heavy makeup is nothing new for The Weeknd, who will be performing at the 2021 Super Bowl on February 7.
The music video for his single “Blinding Lights” featured his post-bender bloody and bruised face – a look he recreated for the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards last August.
And in November, he covered his re-battered face with surgical dressing to receive an award on the American Music Awards stage.
