One Youtube viewer mused that The Weeknd's new face "is definitely inspired by the movie that stars Jim Carrey, The Mask." They'd be forgiven for thinking that everything the Weeknd does seems like scenes out of a horror movie. That's probably the point. As Tesfaye told GQ, from a young age, he fell in love with what the magazine terms "dark, psychologically disturbing films." And, as Vice points out, his passion for the genre has long permeated his music videos, which often reference classics like Nightmare on Elm Street, The Birds, and Dracula. If Abel Makkonen Tesfaye is an artist, "The Weeknd" is his drawing board. The Weeknd's face, be it covered with bruises, bandages, or prosthetics, is a spectacular part of the act. 

The Daily Mail will assure you that no true plastic surgery was involved in the Weeknd's latest look. We assume. Probably. You'll remember (as Billboard does) that the last time The Weeknd preformed "Save Your Tears," his face was bandaged at the 2020 AMAs. In this latest continuation of dramatizations from his album, After Hours, The Weeknd, still suited in red, sings the song's lyrics, his face-gone-wrong finally revealed. As the artist croons, "You could've asked me why I broke your heart, you could've told me that you fell apart, but you walked past me like I wasn't there," his twisted, almost monstrous plastic surgery falls poignantly into place.