In Your Eyes

"In Your Eyes" is a song by Canadian singer the Weeknd, from his fourth studio album After Hours (2020). The song was serviced to contemporary hit radio on March 24, 2020, by XO and Republic Records as the album's third single. It was originally released four days before, alongside the rest of its parent album. The Weeknd wrote and produced the song with Max Martin and Oscar Holter, with Belly receiving additional writing credits. The original studio recording of the track features Wojtek Goral on alto saxophone, while the live version and remix of the song features Kenny G on soprano saxophone. On May 21, 2020, a remix featuring American rapper and singer Doja Cat was released. Another remix of the song featuring saxophonist Kenny G was released on October 16, 2020, which followed the first live performance of the song. From the four singles released with the album, "In Your Eyes" proved to be the least successful in the United States, debuting and peaking at number 16 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Background and release The song was first teased in the Weeknd's After Hours short film during a scene in which he walked past a musician playing the track's saxophone solo. Later on, Island Records president Louis Bloom, in a mid-March 2020 interview with Music Week magazine, confirmed that a direct follow-up to "Blinding Lights" was set to be revealed upon the album's release. The follow-up was then announced to be "In Your Eyes", with the song being added to various popular Spotify playlists and having its radio release confirmed by Gary Trust of Billboard magazine on March 20, 2020. Lyrics and composition The Weeknd spoke about the record, co-produced by him, Max Martin, and Oscar Holter, during an After Hours listening session with Jem Asward of Variety, "When you look deeper into the song, it's more complex than it seems. It's basically about two people who are in love with each other who are just fucking each other over," he explained. "The first verse is from [one] perspective and the second is from the other perspective. It's like the way people think the Police's 'Every Breath You Take' is a love song, and it's not at all ... This is deeper, but you wanna dance to it and make love to it. That's the trick of it.". The song has a moderate tempo of about 100 beats per minute and is in the key of C minor.