Save Your Tears: the collaboration between the Weeknd and Ariana Grande became a trend

With the release of his fourth studio album, After Hours, The Weeknd ate the world of music during 2020. The billions of views it has reached on digital platforms, as well as the merit of its simple Blinding Ligths it became the most listened song of Spotify in that yearare some examples of the scope that the singer’s work has had.

This media impact has not stopped during 2021, since The Weeknd starred in the halftime show in the 54th edition of the Super Bowl and recently surprised his fans with a new version of the single Save Your Tears in collaboration with Ariana Grande.

Along with the premiere of this remix came an animated music video featuring a kind of dystopian future starring both artists. In the pictures The Weeknd is seen taking different robotic parts but with a human aspect.

Afterwards, the animated version of the interpreter collects all the pieces and assembles them through an advanced mechanical mechanism. This process ends with lThe placement of the head and eyes that would give a human look to this robot, clearly inspired by Ariana Grande.

This caricatured alter ego of the singer wears a pink dress, wears heels and has a long ponytail. After seemingly coming to life, He reaches out to his creator’s hand, but the lights go out before the unexpected end of this video clip is revealed..

The video directed by the animator Jack Brown surpassed 6 million views in less than 24 hours since its premiere and it became a trend on social networks: “I think I listen to Save Your Tears (Ariana’s Version) all day long”, “I do think that Ariana Grande’s voice in Save Your Tears Remix gives a very special touch to the song.” or “Let’s take care of the earth because it is the only place where the collaborations of Ariana Grande and The weeknd exist”Were some reactions from users on Twitter.

Save Your Tears It is not the first single of After Hours which has a remix, since the song In Your Eyes had another joint version of Doja Cat. This version was released in May of last year and months later another one came in charge of the saxophonist Kenny G. Like these. To these collaborations is added the one that Abel Tesfaye, the real name of the Canadian singer, had with Rosalía. On that occasion he arrived to perform a new version of the artist’s most successful song, Blinding Lights.

It’s also not the first time that Ariana Grande collaborates with The Weeknd, since both performed in 2014 for the theme Love me harder, belonging to the album of the singer My Everything. Six years later, the two artists came together again to Off the Table, song that is part of the album Positions, also from the singer.

The release of this issue took place a month after The Weeknd accused the academy behind the Grammy Awards of “corrupt”; In addition, he assured that he will not present his music again for the selection process of this competition.

This is how he expressed it through a statement to The New York Times newspaper: “Due to secret committees, I will no longer allow my record company to re-submit my music to the Grammys”. Before this event, the artist had already expressed his position through Twitter: “The Grammys are still corrupt. They owe it to me, my fans and the industry to be transparent”