The Weeknd Accused Of Ripping Off Someone Else For “Can’t Feel My Face” Video

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The Weeknd just released his sinister video for the Kanye West-produced “Tell Your Friends,” but it’s his “Can’t Feel My Face” video from last month that’s the subject of a minor controversy. Director Mitch Moore took to Instagram Monday night (August 25), saying the Grant Singer-directed visual has “uncanny” similarities to an unreleased visual Moore helmed for Majical Cloudz.

To prove his point, he uploaded side-by-side clips from the videos, with Shania Twain‘s “I’m Gonna Getcha Good!” soundtracking the display. Moore says private uploads of the Majical Cloudz video were shared for feedback purposes before the project was scrapped, and he thinks someone behind “Can’t Feel My Face” saw those clips.

“The resemblance is too uncanny,” he wrote on Instagram, before joking, “My mind is a mansion of creativity, so this petty theft is nbd to me. BUT I’M STILL CALLING THE POLICE!! 😜😜😜😜”

Check out the evidence below, which, if you ask me, just shows all the visual tropes of a standard lounge singer scene. But if the singer in that Majical Cloudz vid ultimately bursts into flames, then Moore might be onto something.

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. It’s come to my attention that some body 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!! 😜😜😜😜

A video posted by Mitch Moore (@mitch____moore) on Aug 24, 2015 at 12:23pm PDT

[via Pitchfork]