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Video director says The Weeknd promo rips off his work
By Chris Cooke | Published on Wednesday 26 August 2015
A video director called Mitch Moore reckons that the promo for The Weeknd’s most recent single rips off a video he made for Canadian duo Majical Cloudz which was never actually released.
The video for The Weeknd track ‘Can’t Feel My Face’ went online late last month, and in it the singer is performing to an unimpressed audience in a club venue, until someone sets him on fire and the everyone really starts to dig the show. Moore says that’s all very similar to his Majical Cloudz promo.
The director wrote on the Instagrams yesterday: “So about a year ago, I directed a video for Majical Cloudz. Because of creative differences, it never came out. But the production was large, and many feedback emails were sent out with private uploads of the edit”.
He goes on: “It’s come to my attention that somebody at the helm of a certain mega popular video must have seen one or more of these unreleased edits. The resemblance is too uncanny. My mind is a mansion of creativity, so this petty theft is NBD to me. But I’m still calling the police!!”
And if you want to compare and contrast, Moore included a little clip too.
