Watch The Weeknd, Madonna and Playboi Carti live lavishly in video for ‘Popular’
nme.comThe Weeknd has finally shared the music video for ‘Popular’ featuring Madonna and Playboi Carti. Check it out below.The video first premiered in the game Fortnite last week.
Due to the positive online response – garnering over 334,000 likes on Instagram and over 3.2million impressions on X/Twitter – The Weeknd (real name Abel Tesfaye) decided to release the music video on his official Youtube channel.Released this week (February 22), the music video was directed by Cliqua and shows Tesfaye performing to the camera in an extravagant mansion.
Madonna is seen dancing around an opulent New York City penthouse suite, as Carti cruises around the capital in a luxury car with a woman by his side.The single was released last June and featured on the soundtrack for the HBO Max series, The Idol – which The Weeknd co-created, co-produced and starred in.
The singer first teased the song at last year’s Cannes Film Festival when a snippet played during a show screening and quickly circulated on social media.Tesfaye collaborated with several notable artists on the soundtrack, including Future for ‘Double Fantasy’, Mike Dean for ‘The Idol Theme Song’, and Lil Baby for ‘False Idols’.
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