Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye released the official music video to “Is There Someone Else?” on Saturday (Jan. 7), after teasing clips of the Cliqua-directed visual on Instagram last week.
The cinematic video sees The Weeknd turn into a voyeur, as he watches a beautiful woman (Mackenzee Wilson) seductively dance for another man through the blinds of his high-rise apartment. Playing a dual character — the OVO singer wears a gleaming face-mask as he gazes through a telescope.
It’s then that he questions, “Is There Someone Else?” as he sees another man (played by himself) appear in the apartment with her. However, the peeping tom is a little too late, as he runs to her apartment only to find no one in sight.
He begs to know, “Oh is there someone else or not?/ ‘Cause I wanna keep you close, I don’t wanna lose my spot/ ‘Cause I need to know/ If you’re hurting him, or you’re hurting me/ If I ain’t with you, I don’t wanna be/ Is there someone else or not?”
Known for fully-immersing himself into a character and theme, The Weeknd now takes on a role of a masked-man, as seen in his prior inquiry-titled music video, “How Do I Make You Love Me?” The newest visual follows the four-time Diamond-certified artist’s ongoing ’80’s retro theme of mysterious, dark music videos with glimpses of neon lights throughout.
The voyeur-themed video arrives exactly one year after the Toronto artist dropped his fifth-studio album Dawn FM on Jan. 7. 2022, which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200.
With a clip on IG, he wrote: “Is There Someone Else? Video drops on the 1 year anniversary of Dawn Fm … back at it.”
Check out the official music video to “Is There Someone Else?” above.