With his decadently moody R&B project The Weeknd, Toronto’s Abel Tesfaye has been a large driver of the genre’s increasing ethereality. And nowhere is his particular interpretation of R&B more overt than on “The Zone.” The Drake collaboration is one of Tesfaye’s iciest songs (Tesfaye repeatedly croons, “I can’t feel a damn thing”), and the self-directed video is equally dark and mysterious.
Looking for specifics? Well, it’s got disembodied eyeballs, a lady in lingerie and a whole lot of balloons. “The Zone” originally appeared on The Weeknd’s Thursday mixtape, and it’s also on his forthcoming commercial debut Trilogy (out November 13).
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