Hurry Up Tomorrow is a similar act of leave-taking. It is touted as the last album that Abel Tesfaye will make as The Weeknd. Bowie is a reference point. The Canadian is an admirer: he titled The Weeknd’s 2016 album Starboy in tribute to Ziggy Stardust’s anthem,

On what might be his last album as the Weeknd, Abel Tesfaye revisits much of the sonic and thematic territory that has defined his career, singing of his darker impulses and debauchery over moody synth-pop beats.

On Hurry Up, Tomorrow, his (allegedly) final album as the Weeknd, Abel Tesfaye is a singer haunted by death. And now, in the trailer for his new film, Hurry Up Tomorrow, Tesfaye plays … well, a singer haunted by death.