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The video pays homage to the science fiction horror television series Stranger Things and the 1982 science fiction film E.T. On November 25, 2021, to celebrate the five-year anniversary of Starboy's release, the Weeknd surprise-released the music video for "Die for You", directed by Christian Breslauer. On October 4, 2021, an unreleased remix of "Die for You" featuring singer-songwriter SZA premiered on the eighteenth episode of the Weeknd's Apple Music 1 radio show Memento Mori, following a streaming surge the song received in September.
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Due to its appearance in the show, the song lead the THR's Top TV Songs Chart in August 2017. "Die for You" was featured in the second season of the HBO comedy-drama television series Insecure. In Canada, the song peaked at number 35 on the Canadian Hot 100. In the United States, "Die for You" peaked at number 43 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at number 19 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. It was written in the key of C ♯ minor with a tempo of 67 beats per minute. Resurgence in popularity thanks to TikTok in September 2021, its official music video was released on November 25, 2021, along with a standalone digital release on Apple Music with its own artwork. The song was later serviced to rhythmic radio Septemin the US as the sixth overall single from Starboy. Due to the song's lyrical content, which details the conflicting feelings of ending a relationship with someone he still loves, it was the hardest song to finish from the album. In an interview on Beats 1 Radio with Zane Lowe, the Weeknd revealed that the song was finished a week before Starboy's release.
