The hills

1. The Hills – The Weekend
Matt Morphy

2. Although the video for ‘The Hills’ is quite
simple and not exactly action-Packed, the
action that actually takes place is highly
significant. The video starts off with a car
upside down and THE Weekend crawls out of
it.
Two girls then get out of the car and start
pushing The Weekend around as if they are
blaming him for what happened. However,
the signer seems unfazed. He keeps steadily
walking towards a house, as if he is
magnetically or magically attracted to it. The
car behind him the explodes. The weekend
still remains center of the frame.

3. He then walks into a creepy looking house
and starts looking around. He then walks up
some stairs very slowly as if emphasizing the
ascending nature of initiation. He them
enters a room that is very red. The strange
looking person is holding an apple. This
most likely refers to the familiar snake in the
Adam and Eve story in the Bible which
relates to the forbidden fruit, this character
shows up in The Weekends other videos and
could possible resemble the Devil, this is
due to the fact that he is surround by red
and is wearing dark clothing. The two girls
laying on the bed are the same two girls
who were in the car with The Weekend.
How did they arrive there so fast… and
when did they have time to change? The
viewer are meant to understand that there
is something supernatural going on here
and that perhaps these girls were sent by
the shady character to cause the accident
and lean The Weekend to that room.

4. Then the video ends. At this point, one might understandably wonder what this video
has to do with the song, which is about The Weekend telling a girl from “the hills” that
he doesn’t really care about her, among other things. As it is the case with most videos
with a ritualistic undertone, the true story of the video is in the details. First, the title
of the song, “The Hills”, is often a reference to upper-scale neighborhoods, the most
famous one being the Hollywood Hills. In one line of the song, the Weekend refers to
rolling into a “gated residential” to meet the girl. The song and video both convey a
sense of moral corruption in “high society”.
When The Weekend enters the house, we hear him singing “The Hills have eyes, the
hulls have eyes”. This cold be referring to people in closed communities knowing
about each others’ lives and passing judgment and gossiping about it. However, in
context of the video, it can also refer to the elite monitoring their people, especially
newcomers, such as The Weekend.