Cry for Me (The Weeknd song)

The song, which was first released as a second listed track of Hurry Up Tomorrow, was released as the third single off the album on February 4, 2025.^[2]

"Cry for Me" is composed of distorted synthesizers and drums that are very hard-hitting before it ends with a trap-influenced outro.^[3] On the song, the Weeknd says that he feels trapped in a "penthouse prison" as he expresses his internal feelings of pain and suffering.^[4][5] Carl Lamarre of Billboard ranked "Cry for Me" as the ninth best song on the album as he felt that "The Weeknd's vulnerability is palpable as he positions Hurry Up Tomorrow as his swan song" and "he leans into his mortality and departure, realizing it may be too late to resuscitate his relationship".^[6] The song is composed in the key of G minor with a tempo of 125 BPM.

The music video for "Cry for Me" was released on February 11, 2025.^[7] Self-directed by the Weeknd, the black-and-white visual features the singer in a sparkling outfit with a hood covering part of his face, as he walks towards a young woman in the pitch black.^[8] The scene frequently flashes to the musician wandering a city and the woman crying thick, dark liquid.^[9]

Credits adapted from first pressing credits and Tidal.^[10][11]

• The Weeknd – vocals, keyboards, programming, songwriting, production
• Mike Dean – synthesizer, songwriting, production, mixing, mastering
• OPN – synthesizer
• Metro Boomin – songwriting, production
• Sage Skolfield – engineering, vocal engineering, vocal producer, mixing
• Tommy Rush – engineering, second engineering, assistant mixing
• Shin Kamiyama – engineering
• Nathan Salon – engineering
• Faris Al-Majed – recording, second engineering
• Ahmad Balshe – songwriting
• Curtis Fitzgerald Williams – songwriting
• Lynette K. Patterson – songwriting