Sorta interesting that he only made the decision to make an arch out of this after Heartless. I thought he had the elaborate music video story line planned from the jump.

genre enthusiast

Looks like you were spot on about the influence of it being the chaos unfolding all in a single night

It’s just a story that we’re telling from the beginning of the “Heartless” video and continuing through “Blinding Lights,” “After Hours” and “In Your Eyes” and his appearances on Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert. This character is having a really bad night — all these videos are taking place in one night — and you can come with own interpretation of what it is. Especially in the “After Hours” video, I went full-on film geek: There’s the “Chinatown” reference with the broken nose, the “Jacobs Ladder” reference with the subway, “King of Comedy” for Jimmy Kimmel, “Trouble Every Day,” “Possession,” “Dressed to Kill” with the elevator — and of course “After Hours,” Martin Scorsese’s 1985 film, is the obvious inspiration, with all this madness taking place in one night. That was the only on the nose reference — pun intended!

variety.com/2020/music/news/the-weeknd-after-hours-track-by-track-1234574136

That cover was David Lynch inspired, right?

But not the European ones

Btw he‘s full-on genre enthusiast...

LMFAO

The Variety magazine cover

I can‘t quite put my finger on it, but the jacket and the glasses reminded me of whatever David Lynch stylewise

Great stuff, is this all from your own personal archive?

idk how anyone could hate Thrice when he contributes all this interesting information.