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Watch the Weeknd Get Buried Alive in His ‘Tell Your Friends’ Video

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The Weeknd has one of the hottest songs of the summer with “Can’t Feel My Face,” but he’s letting you know in his own twisted way that he’s still Jenny from the Block (basically).

The soulful Kanye West-produced “Tell Your Friends,” whose music video the singer premiered today, reminds listeners that 25-year-old Abel Tesfaye is still the same guy who made bleak mixtapes about getting high and getting laid in 2011: “I’m still that n—a with the hair/ singing ’bout popping pills, f—ing b-itches,” he sings.

And he’s still making videos about his own destruction, too: just like the car crash in “The Hills” and the incinerating performance Tesfaye gives in “Can’t Feel My Face,” “Tell Your Friends” finds the Weeknd in a not-so-great place: getting buried alive. That’s heavy stuff coming from the guy with one of the most anticipated albums of the year, Beauty Behind the Madness, which drops this Friday.

See Art Kane’s Most Memorable Music Portraits

The Who, 1968
The Who, 1968.courtesy Art Kane Archive
Jefferson Airplane, 1968
Jefferson Airplane, 1968.courtesy Art Kane Archive
Bob Dylan, 1966
Bob Dylan, 1966.courtesy Art Kane Archive
Country Joe and The Fish, 1968
Country Joe and The Fish, 1968.courtesy Art Kane Archive
Janis Joplin, 1968
Janis Joplin, 1968.courtesy Art Kane Archive
The Rolling Stones, 1966
The Rolling Stones, 1966.courtesy Art Kane Archive
Jim Morrison, 1968
Jim Morrison, 1968.courtesy Art Kane Archive
Louis Armstrong, 1958
Louis Armstrong, 1958.courtesy Art Kane Archive
Harlem, 1958
Harlem, 1958.courtesy Art Kane Archive
Photographer Art Kane at Keith Moon's drum set, 1968.
Photographer Art Kane at Keith Moon's drum set, 1968.courtesy Art Kane Archive

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