In The Night Meaning

In the Night Analysis The song In the Night by The Weeknd is a song that at first may seem shallow and meaningless but actually has a lot of underlying themes, the artist Abel Tesfaye even has stated that “the song isn’t as shallow as what it may appear to be”. Although he never says what the deeper meanings are he hints at some when talking about writing the song. In an interview he claims he came up with the concept for the song while in Marilyn Monroe’s childhood bedroom. Her old house had been turned into a recording studio. He also states it was made in homage to Michael Jackson. The connection with Marilyn hints at dark themes of a girl who had survived childhood sexual abuse, one of the lyrics even suggests this “She was young and she was forced to be a woman”.
Which seems to be the shallow meaning a lot of people get from it at first. After seeing the video which is full of symbolism and most I can’t even figure out the meaning for, there were lots of symbols that alluded to wealth and power such as exotic pets and very fancy looking king playing cards, it at first seemed like it was about sex slavery and the girls getting revenge in the end. I got this from the opening before the song starts of men getting on a ship and then it shows them over top of something/someone and laughing and pointing at it. Then the ship leaves showing the man who the video shows to be the one who hurt the girl on the ship and a quick clip of him covered in blood. Later on it shows him watching from the back as the girls dance, all the girls appear to be white while the men who seem to be running the place look Asian suggesting they’ve been taken to another