You recognize the song, of course.
You probably know it by heart.
In August,Billboardreported that “Blinding Lights” broke the record for most weeks (19!)
spent on the top of its Radio Songs airplay chart.
You know the lyrics.
The song itself never mentions blood.
So what’s behind the face?
Why The Weeknd has a bloody face in Blinding Lights
We’ll direct you to hismusic video.
His music video is the dramatization of this story and the drunken desperation that permeates it.
The bloody, beaten up face?
(We think they’re security guards or bar bouncers?)
His bloody face is probably the manifestation of his anguish.
The Weeknd sings, “Ooh, I’m drowning in the night.”
We look at his face, and we feel him drowning in it.
Is it really a surprise that the song did so well?Slatethinks not.
That the Weeknd can keep singing despite his bruises?
In today’s world, it’s a visceral and poignant reminder to persevere.
Or that time when he went as Beetlejuice, accompanied by then-girlfriendBella Hadid, who dressed as Lydia?
TakeKiss Land, The Weeknd’s debut album, for example.
If you listened to it and got chills, you were supposed to.
