The Weeknd flips a City Pop classic, sampling the 1983 song “Midnight Pretenders” by Japanese artist Tomoko Aran, and goes introspective on “Out of Time.” The track features a distressed Abel, as he realizes the mistakes he made in his relationship and croons for a second chance on the sleek, sensual sounding cut.

As some fans noticed on Reddit, “Out of Time” has also a very similar song structure to the artist’s 2016 hit song “I Feel It Coming,” so much that the two tracks can be almost entirely overlapped with each other.

After teasing stills of the music video on Twitter, the video was released on April 6, 2022, featuring actors Jim Carrey and Hoyeon.