A Hallucinatory Nightmare: Gaspar Noé Directs The Weeknd’s Visually Stunning “Big Sleep“
The visual component for The Weeknd’s track, “Big Sleep,” featuring electronic music pioneer Giorgio Moroder, is an artistic triumph, with the official music video premiering on October 9, 2025.
Directed by the acclaimed filmmaker Gaspar Noé, the video is an immediately recognizable exercise in his signature hallucinatory style.
The narrative begins with an elderly man traversing an empty city, a calm quickly shattered by an overwhelming barrage of rapid, vibrant strobe lighting in aggressive blues, reds, and greens.
The surreal imagery is breathtaking: enormous, floating statue heads of The Weeknd and Giorgio Moroder hover over the metropolis, creating a chaotic, dreamlike visual experience.
Shot primarily in Paris studios, the video utilized extensive VFX work and specialist cinematography to achieve its otherworldly beauty and psychological intensity.
This song is a key track from the album Hurry Up Tomorrow, which concludes a major trilogy of albums beginning with After Hours and Dawn FM.
The music video perfectly aligns with the album’s broad, cinematic scope, which also includes a feature film starring The Weeknd and Barry Keoghan.
This ambitious visual work further solidifies The Weeknd’s reputation for seamlessly blending music with boundary-pushing visual art, marking “Big-Sleep” as a standout piece of storytelling in 2025.
Quotable Lyrics:
You know I love it when you’re angry
I’m looking at you like
No, no, no, no, no
As I make you go
I don’t want you to go away
I found you, I found you
Well, you used up your borrowed life
And you wasted your borrowed time
Big sleep, big sleep
Well, you barely put up a fight
Ready for the forever night
Big sleep, big sleep, oh
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
Now I lay me down to sleep
Pray the Lord my soul to keep
Angels watch me through the night
Wake me up with light
