"Is There Someone Else?" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter the Weeknd. Released as the tenth track on his fifth studio album, ''

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'' (2022), it was written by the Weeknd, OPN, Tommy Brown and Peter Lee Johnson, and produced by the four with additional production by Max Martin and

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. The track peaked at number 45 on the UK Singles Chart and number 31 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. On the one-year anniversary of ''Dawn FM'' on January 7, 2023, a music video for "Is There Someone Else?" was released. The Weeknd performed the song during his

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and included it on his 2023 live album, ''

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''.

Composition and lyrics

"Is There Someone Else?" is composed in the

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with a time signature of (

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), and follows a tempo 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 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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