The Weeknd and Playboi Carti reunited and released the music video for their latest collab, “Timeless,” which sees the pair singing the track’s lyrics from a dark warehouse, surrounded by half-naked women.
“City on fire when I’m comin’ home/Fill up the sky, I fill up the Dome/They’ll play it one day, it’s a hell of a show,” sings the Weeknd on the track. “But it’s gonna hurt ’cause we did it first”
The Gunner Stahl and LouieKnows-directed video sees the Weeknd and Playboi Carti rocking all-black and, in Carti’s case, an Allen Iverson jersey, as they sing the track in front a crew of dancers.
In the song’s self-referential lyrics, the pair also shout out Pharrell Williams, who produced the song with the line: “Feel like Skateboard P, BBC boys on the creep/Feel like it’s ’03, Neptune drum with a beam.”
The single marks the second track from the Weeknd’s Hurry Up Tomorrow album, following “Dancing in the Flames,” which dropped earlier this month. The new record will follow 2020’s After Hours and 2022’s Dawn FM for the end of the album trio.
“Yesterday was fourteen years ago… We held our breath, falling into a shimmering sea in the after hours of the night… Attempted to cleanse the wounds with melodies and lights, a bulletproof bandage to shield what lies beneath,” read a trailer announcement of the album. “In a place where the seasons never changed, where time ceased to exist. But therein lays the problem.”
“Today has felt like an endless spin, I keep distorting the truth, immune to the dizziness, numb to the nausea. What lies beneath — screams in silence,” the trailer continued.
“Timeless” also reconnects Carti and the Weeknd, after joining Madonna for “Popular” for The Idol in 2023. The pair debuted “Timeless” during the Weeknd’s One Night Only show in São Paulo show earlier this month.
