>>12855258 (lb)
https://nypost.com/2021/01/05/the-weeknd-shocks-with-plastic-surgery-in-save-your-tears-video/
Bandages are off: The Weeknd’s plastic surgery look shocks fans
https://www.esquire.com/style/mens-fashion/a33844615/the-weekend-mtv-vma-outfit-2020/
The Weeknd Brought His Signature 'After Hours' Look to the 2020 MTV VMAs
>I don't remember which band it was
wasn't it Metallica or Black Sabbath?
I member all of that too, anon.
They 'claim' they also used to do it in malls…..play certain music to make you want to shop and buy moar…..all fucking with people.
oooh digits……
anyone else having trouble playing vid clips posted here tonight? This won't play for me.
>Eagles hotel california is all about the first church of satan.
yep….once you come in you can never leave.
tyb
5:5
Review: The Weeknd, though underwhelming, made history with first Super Bowl halftime show held during a pandemic
How many ways did chart-topping vocal star The Weeknd make history with his Super Bowl halftime show Sunday at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, despite delivering a visually arresting but musically tepid performance?
Let’s tally up the score.
The mustachioed singer, songwriter and producer — real name: Abel Makkonen Tesfaye — became the first Canadian artist to headline the big game’s halftime show. (Fellow Canadian Shania Twain performed at the 2003 Super Bowl, which was held at San Diego’s now defunct Qualcomm Stadium, but she was part of a halftime show lineup that included Sting and No Doubt, not a solo headliner.)
At 30, The Weeknd is the youngest male solo artist to headline — as opposed to make a guest appearance — a Super Bowl halftime show. (Lady Gaga was also 30 when she headlined the 2017 Super Bowl at Houston’s NRG Stadium.)
The Weeknd is also the first artist to headline the Super Bowl whose parents are Ethiopian immigrants — and who, by extension, is fluent in Amharic, the principal native tongue of his mother and father’s homeland.
He is the first halftime show headliner whose songs often focus on self-medicating and, not infrequently, self-destruction. His barely 14-minute performance Sunday included two of those numbers, “The Hills” and the nominal love song “Can’t Feel My Face,” albeit in extremely abbreviated versions.
But the biggest first, sadly, is that The Weeknd headlined the only Super Bowl in the event’s 56-year history to be held during a global pandemic. COVID-19 has shuttered concerts and live music events nearly everywhere, except Florida, whose state government has for the most part reacted to the pandemic in what might kindly be described as a largely laissez faire approach.
Even so, safety concerns led to The Weeknd’s elaborately constructed and lit stage to be set up in the stands of the stadium, as opposed to on the field, and prompted The Weeknd to spend what he told media members was $7 million of his own money to beef up the production. (A number of music industry reports suggest that at least some of those millions were in fact provided by his record company.)
Coronavirus pandemic protocols also limited attendance in the 65,000-plus capacity stadium to 22,000. About 7,500 of those were vaccinated healthcare workers, who were given free tickets by the NFL. Audience cheers could be heard, but the cameras rarely showed even a glimpse of the crowd.
The extraordinary circumstances were as undeniable as The Weeknd’s meh of a performance, which was visually sleek, slickly delivered and largely devoid of musical (as opposed to actual) fireworks, let alone the kind of “wow” moments delivered by such past Super Bowl headliners as Prince, Beyoncé and Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.
The Weeknd had promised last week at a press conference that his performance would be “completely live.” Alas, his pleasant but decidedly drama-free vocals on Sunday sounded so processed for much of his set that it was questionable exactly what he meant by “live.”
His performance took place mostly in front of a mock, multi-layered cityscape. It housed a well-choreographed choir and a string section, whose members may or may not have been miming their parts (not that it matters much at the Super Bowl). By rushing through eight songs in 13 minutes — about par for a halftime show — The Weeknd was unable to duplicate the moody dynamic tension that is a hallmark of his carefully produced studio albums.
His stage movements were largely understated, not a good look at an event that thrives on kinetic action. That came with his climactic “Blinding Lights,” which found him bounding across the stadium’s field with hundreds of lookalike dancers, each wearing identical red and black ready-for-the-Weeknd suits with bandaged heads — a nod to his hugely popular “Blinding Lights” video.
It was the eye-popping moment his halftime show cried out for. But it was too little, too late — a missed opportunity in a performance that found its star coasting when he should have been soaring.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/music/story/2021-02-07/the-weeknd-makes-history-with-super-bowl-halftime-show-performance-in-orlando
she is not lying, so….