"Is There Someone Else?" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter
the Weeknd
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (; born February 16, 1990), known professionally as the Weeknd, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor. He is best known for adding Pop music, pop, electronic music, electronic and hip-hop stylings ...
. Released as the tenth track on his fifth studio album, ''
Dawn FM
''Dawn FM'' is the fifth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter the Weeknd. It was released on January 7, 2022, by XO and Republic Records. The album contains guest appearances by Tyler, the Creator, Lil Wayne, and Swedish House Mafia and ...
'' (2022), it was written by the Weeknd,
OPN, Tommy Brown and Peter Lee Johnson, and produced by the four with additional production by
and
Oscar Holter
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. The track peaked at number 45 on the
UK Singles Chart and number 31 on the
''Billboard'' Hot 100.
On January 7, 2023, the one-year anniversary of ''Dawn FM'', a music video for "Is There Someone Else?" was released. The Weeknd performed the song during his
After Hours til Dawn Tour
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and included it on his 2023 live album, ''
Live at SoFi Stadium
''Live at SoFi Stadium'' is the first live album by Canadian singer the Weeknd. It was released on March 3, 2023, through XO and Republic Records. The album was recorded during two November 2022 concerts at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Califor ...
''.
Composition and lyrics
"Is There Someone Else?" is composed in the
key of
A minor
A minor is a minor scale based on A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Its key signature has no flats or sharps. Its relative major is C major and its parallel major is A major.
The A natural minor scale is:
Changes needed for the melodic ...
with a time signature of (
common-time
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), and follows a
tempo
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of 135 beats per minute. The song's lyrics focus on Tesfaye's suspicion that his partner is having an affair with another man.
Music video
A music video for the song was released on January 7, 2023, as part of the one-year anniversary of the album's release. It was directed by Cliqua.
Synopsis
The video begins with the Weeknd and a young woman entering an apartment, before the woman gives him a seductive strip tease, which he views through a window. From afar, the woman is being watched by another person from a telescope, who is revealed to be a masked version of the Weeknd. The ending of the video has the masked version of the Weeknd run to the apartment, after seeing the other version of himself with the woman, only to find no one inside the apartment.
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{{The Weeknd songs
2022 songs
Canadian synth-pop songs
Songs written by the Weeknd
The Weeknd songs
Song recordings produced by the Weeknd
Song recordings produced by Max Martin
Songs about infidelity