The Weeknd is making two main schedule changes “out of respect and concern for the individuals of Los Angeles County” coping with wildfires, per an Instagram submit. The artist is pushing again his new XO/Republic album, Hurry Up Tomorrow, from Jan. 24 to Jan. 31 and canceling a serious one-off live performance on Jan. 25 on the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Ca.
That occasion was to have featured “never-before-seen manufacturing” on a stage that stuffed all the stadium flooring.
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“This metropolis has all the time been a profound supply of inspiration for me, and my ideas are with everybody impacted throughout this tough time,” the artist born Abel Tesfaye stated. “My focus stays on supporting the restoration of those communities and aiding its unbelievable individuals as they rebuild.”
Hurry Up Tomorrow will full a trilogy already that includes the LPs After Hours and Daybreak FM. Tesfaye has launched three singles from it since September 2024: “Dancing within the Flames,” “Timeless” that includes Playboi Carti and the “Sao Paulo” that includes Anitta. The latter is accompanied by a horror-tinged video, whereas a fourth track, “Open Hearts,” can nonetheless solely be accessed via Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.
As beforehand reported, Tesfaye will act in a function movie “extension” of Hurry Up Tomorrow — a so-called “musically pushed psychological thriller” written and directed by Trey Edward Shults and likewise starring Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan.
“Jenna introduced a lot depth to the character,” Tesfaye lately advised Selection. “There was a scene the place Trey and I checked out one another like, ‘On paper, that is simply ridiculous — how is it going to translate on display screen?’ And he or she stated, ‘I’ve an concept.’ She led that entire scene — none of it was rehearsed, and a number of my reactions in it will not be appearing.”
Lionsgate has secured worldwide theatrical distribution for the mission, which might be launched Might 16. Tesfaye wrote the rating in tandem with Oneohtrix Level By no means’s Daniel Lopatin. He beforehand starred within the maligned HBO collection The Idol, which ran for a single season of 5 episodes in 2023.
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