The Weeknd is lost
The Weeknd’s Superbowl Halftime Show performance was good—a lavishly produced techno-religious fever dream of a set that, like so many Halftime Shows, must have taken a ton of intricate planning and exhausting rehearsals to get right. The internet, of course, is mostly focused on the few seconds of it where, during a rendition of “Can’t Feel My Face,” he enters a golden funhouse maze covered in white lights and looks really disoriented.
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These visuals were basically a solid, network TV-friendly way to visualize the track’s description of an infatuation as powerful and ego-obliterating as a coke bender. But, The Weeknd’s facial expressions also lend themselves well to other interpretations—like that he might have desperatelyneeded to take a shit.