You may withdraw your consent at any time. So why the attempt to keep this thing from being called what it clearly is? Perhaps the Weeknd - an old-school album guy who’s spent the last year and change promoting 2020’s “After Hours” in costume - thinks the openly commercial format cheapens his songs. Emails will be sent by or on behalf of Universal Music Group 2220 Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90404 (310) 865-4000. Issued just a couple of days before he’ll headline the halftime show at Sunday’s Super Bowl LV, the close-to-comprehensive “Highlights” does what all best-of collections do: rounds up an act’s most well-known material so that anyone made curious about him - by, say, a performance on music’s most-watched stage - can quickly get up to speed. All rights reserved.The Weeknd says his new compilation, “The Highlights,” is not a greatest-hits set, but the only reason anyone should take that claim seriously is because the album doesn’t include his ecstatic 2015 single “In the Night.” So you’d rather be with someone who looks like me - than the ‘actual me!’”Ĭopyright © 2021, ABC Audio. Elton John releases new album, talks collaboration with The Weeknd. He laughs, “One night on the phone, we were living in different cities, she told me she was hanging with a guy who looked like me. The Weeknd is also gearing up for a larger-than-life 2022 himself. “It was just one of those relationships that never quite came together–– no matter how much I wanted it to,” Dean says of the song. The song’s video features all four artists frolicking in Miami.Īustralian singer-songwriter Dean Lewis, who scored a huge hit in 2018 with “Be Alright,” is back with a new single and video, “ Looks Like Me.” The song’s uptempo but is about the end of a relationship. The song is the first single off Christina’s upcoming Spanish-language project, her first since 2000’s Mi Reflejo.ĭJ Snake has released a star-studded new single called “SG.” It stands for “sexy girl” and features Latin superstar Ozuna, Megan Thee Stallion, and Lisa of BLACKPINK, “uniting artists across three continents and four countries,” according to a press release. Xtina tells Billboard the song is “an homage to women.” “We wanted to make sure that this was definitely a representation of Latin women who are the strength of a family, the backbone,” she says. Along with the song, Swedish House Mafia announced their first global tour in more than a decade.Ĭhristina Aguilera is embracing her Latin roots on her new Spanish-language track, “Pa Mis Muchachas” - which translates as “For My Girls” - featuring Nathy Peluso, Becky G and Nicki Nicole. The Weeknd Kiss Land (2013) Posted by On September - 6 - 2013.
Now, it seems the multi-platinum crooner is all set to move ahead with a new project and has already started teasing his massive fan base for the same.
“When you vibe with somebody and you appreciate their art, I think you just connect,” Swedish House Mafia’s Steve Angello said. 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. R&B icon The Weeknd delivered one of the biggest albums of 2020 with ‘After Hours’ where songs like ‘Blinding Lights’, ‘Save You Tears’, ‘In Your Eyes’ and ‘Alone Again’ topped the charts for several weeks. The group tells Apple Music the collaboration came to be because they were mutual fans of each other. The Weeknd has teamed up with reunited house music supergroup Swedish House Mafia on the new track “Moth to a Flame,” out today.