I’ll never be in that conversation ever again… And I’m glad that I can make music and not have to think about that. Because that will never be the reason why I do what I do. But now, looking back at it, I never want to know what really happened…
I was angry and I was confused and I was sad. When happened, I had all these ideas and thoughts. So that sounds pretty good! Elsewhere in the interview, the Weeknd reiterates his stance that he’ll never submit his music to the Grammys again: Drenched-suit, grinding-on-the-girl/boy-of-your-dreams party records. (Not “cosplay,” as Abel put it.) That sort of retro thing is having a moment right now in pop music, but these records are new. Ten days after its release, The Weeknd seems determined to make sure his new album After Hours is a gift that keeps giving: At the stroke of midnight ET, he added three previously unreleased. Quincy Jones meets Giorgio Moroder meets the best-night-of-your-fucking-life party records. Like real-deal, illuminated-white-tiles-on-the-floor party records. The new project is packed with party records. The music hit the studio like a Mack truck. In a new GQ cover story that went up this morning, the Weeknd says that his next album is “the album I’ve always wanted to make.” He also plays a few tracks for writer Mark Anthony Green, who cautions that the new album isn’t finished yet but who still says rapturous things about it: The clip definitely sounds like an extended intro, and it barely has any of the Weeknd’s vocals, but it promises some very cool things coming. It sounds like Daft Punk remaking the Miami Vice theme music. And just being real here: It sounds pretty fucking awesome. The accompanying video shows a sunrise on some psychedelic CGI planet. The Canadian artist, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, is due to release his fourth.
On Twitter last night, the Weeknd wrote, “fuck it … IT STARTS TONIGHT.” He then posted a two-minute preview of a bleary, thumping new track called “Take My Breath” the teaser is titled “The Dawn Is Coming” on YouTube. The Weeknd has shared the tracklist for his upcoming new album ‘After Hours’ you can check it out below. And it appears that we won’t have to wait too long before that next album arrives. The Weeknd was a star before all this, but he’s at a new peak right now, and his next album is poised to be a very, very big deal. He’s producing and starring in his own HBO show. In the past few months, the Weeknd played the Super Bowl Halftime Show and convinced the Grammys to change its rules. The LP spun off three #1 hits, including “ Blinding Lights,” which broke chart records and which Billboard named the biggest single of 2020. After Hours is now double platinum, and it was one of the biggest albums of 2020.
In 2020, the Weeknd released his fourth studio album After Hours. He recorded the Canada and US multi-platinum single ' Pray for Me ' with Kendrick Lamar for the Black Panther soundtrack. There are at least eight music videos for After Hours, including the extravagant, creepy, replay-worthy video for “Save Your Tears,” released days ago. In 2018, The Weeknd released an EP titled My Dear Melancholy, which spawned the Canada number-one single ' Call Out My Name '.