The Weeknd’s new music video for ‘Take My Breath’ pulled from IMAX screenings over epilepsy considerations

By ANI

WASHINGTON: Singer-songwriter The Weeknd may need hoped to shock his followers with a big-screen launch of his new music video for ‘Take My Breath’, however security considerations for viewers with epilepsy received the venture pulled.

The Grammy-award-winning singer has been teasing his new track with out an official launch date for the final week.

The track ‘Take My Breath’– which has been previewed in an Olympics advert and on social media this week, was scheduled to air in Imax theatres earlier than ‘Suicide Squad’ this week however has been pulled by IMAX on the idea that the sunshine and strobe results within the video have the potential to be harmful to these watching with epilepsy and who may be liable to seizures.

For the unversed, in an interview with Variety in May, The Weeknd dropped a touch as to what his subsequent album will likely be like saying, “If the last record is the after-hours of the night, then the dawn is coming.”

He additionally teased the upcoming track on Monday morning on his social media handles, with the sneak peek video titled ‘The Dawn Is Coming’, accompanied by a trippy visible of a sundown.

The clip was instrumental; incorporating The Weeknd’s melodic vocalizing till the very finish, when “Take my breath” flashes out.

AS per Variety, on Monday night time, extra of ‘Take My Breath’ was unveiled by an Olympics promo for the Team USA Women’s Track and Field group. The singer shared the clip on Twitter, which featured athletes Sydney McLaughlin, Dalilah Muhammad, Athing Mu, and Gabby Thomas.

Sharing the video, he wrote, “8.6.21 new single,” within the caption.

The track, the primary main as much as the singer’s follow-up to his record-breaking ‘After Hours’ album, will likely be launched on Friday at 12 am ET on YouTube and different platforms.