Song of the Week: The Weeknd's 'The Hills'

When a song takes its hook from a horror film — Wes Craven's 1977 cult classic The Hills Have Eyes — you know there's bound to be trouble. In The Hills, the menacing follow-up to the Fifty Shades of Grey hit Earned It, The Weeknd creates his monologue of illicit sex and drugs over a bed of brooding synthesizers. "When I'm (expletive) up, that's the real me," he sings, followed by what sounds for all the world like a scream. (Warning: contains explicit language.)

The song's harrowing video, released last week, only compounds the sense of unease, as it shadows the singer, blood-streaked and limping, walking away from a fiery car crash.