The Weeknd – “Belong To The World”

Last month, we posted video of the Weeknd debuting a new track called “You Belong To The World” live onstage in Toronto. The song, meant for the Weeknd’s forthcoming album Kiss Land, samples the world-annihilating drums of Portishead’s “Machine Gun” (more on that below) and it approaches the hard-pop falsetto paranoia of, say, Michael Jackson’s “Dirty Diana.” The song’s new eight-minute video stars a black-uniformed Abel Tesfaye, who we see wandering lovestruck through a cold future-world, one in which people are forced to watch expressionist dance pieces. Can you imagine? Horrifying!