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The Weeknd unveiled a never-before-seen scene from his upcoming Hurry Up Tomorrow film on Wednesday (May 7) that’s inspired by a real-life incident.
Fans can unlock the secret scene he posted on Instagram Reels with a password. (Spoiler alert! If you can’t figure out the code, it’s “ICANTSING.”) The clip shows the singer (real name Abel Tesfaye) receiving a diagnosis of him losing his voice, which actually happened at the beginning of his second SoFi Stadium show in Inglewood, Calif., in September 2022. But in the film, he learns that losing his voice wasn’t due to a physical injury, but a psychological condition.
The password for his IG Reels feature shares a similar title with the 12-second “I Can’t F–king Sing” interlude of his latest Billboard 200-topping album, Hurry Up Tomorrow. “No, it’s my f–king voice, OK? Listen, people, I can’t sing, I can’t f–king sing,” he yells.
Hurry Up Tomorrow will hit theaters Friday, May 16. Directed by Trey Edward Shults and co-written and co-produced by The Weeknd, Hurry Up Tomorrow follows a fictionalized version of the superstar, who is “plagued by insomnia” and becomes wrapped up in an “odyssey with a stranger who begins to unravel the very core of his existence,” according to its synopsis. The Weeknd, who stars in the film alongside Jenny Ortega and Barry Keoghan, also scored the film with his frequent collaborator Daniel Lopatin (also known as Oneohtrix Point Never).
He said in an interview with Fandango that the film came before the album. “The film came first. The album didn’t exist. We were scoring and writing music to picture,” he revealed. “The idea came from a real-life incident that had happened and I always saw it as a film. The film came first, then the music.”
Watch the newly unveiled scene from Hurry Up Tomorrow below:
