The Weeknd Releases New Music Video For “Gasoline”

The Weeknd has released this Tuesday the disturbing video clip of “Gasoline”, one of the topics included in his most recent album, “Dawn FM”, which was published last Friday and that represents a metaphorical waiting in purgatory awaiting the heavenly call.

This video in particular is a production directed by Matilda Finn that takes over from the story that began with her first single, “Take My Breath”, released in August, and presents the Canadian musician characterized as an old man who, after his death, faces to his demons.

The Weeknd is literally beaten by a younger version of himself in the middle of a runaway party of unbridled dance and desire, amid gloomy lights that show the worst faces of its participants, turned into beasts.

As he explained in an interview, the entire “Dawn FM” album was conceived as if the passage through purgatory were a traffic jam enlivened by a station, the one that gives the album its name, in which the deceased is helped to do an examination of conscience in its transit “towards the light”.

In a new twist on the usual rhythms of record marketing, the video clip for “Gasoline” has been published after the release of the artist’s fifth studio album, which in turn took place just after the intense Christmas sales campaign and after a brief previous announcement on their networks a few days before.

The prestigious hip hop icons Tyler The Creator and Lil Wayne have collaborated in it, as well as Oneohtrix Point Never, co-producer and composer with The Weeknd of many of the songs, as well as actor Jim Carrey, who acts as the announcer of the fictitious station.

The repertoire also includes veteran Quincy Jones, producer of Michael Jackson’s most iconic albums: “Off The Wall”, “Thriller” and “Bad”, whose imprint is vividly felt in these songs that also embrace the danceable electronics of figures like Calvin Harris.