The Weeknd and Anitta lastly delivered their “São Paulo” collaboration on Wednesday (Oct. 30).
The music got here together with a brand new music video, which — as teased in cryptic previews for the collab — featured Anitta with an exaggerated child bump. Within the clip, Anitta’s pregnant stomach sings The Weeknd’s components, with lips rising the place her stomach button is. The video ends with the phrase “Illusion” flashing, although it’s unclear whether or not that may very well be an album or music title or one thing else solely.
The Weeknd (actual identify Abel Tesfaye) beforehand informed Billboard Brazil in his cowl story that his frequent collaborator Mike Dean had requested Anitta for a vocal recording to enhance The Weeknd’s set final October when he carried out two nights in São Paulo throughout his After Hours Til Daybreak Tour. “What she despatched was so superior that we created the music,” the “Blinding Lights” hitmaker mentioned. The 2 debuted “São Paulo” within the titular metropolis’s Estádio MorumBIS on Sept. 7 throughout a particular one-night-only present that was livestreamed. “We knew it was too particular to simply play on stage. We noticed nice potential within the music and located the beat, which is the center of the present,” he added of “São Paulo.”
“I wrote some verses as a joke and by no means imagined they’d turn out to be critical. Out of the blue, I obtained the completed music. I beloved it! I felt very honored and flattered,” Anitta informed Billboard Brazil. “I’ve at all times been an enormous fan of his and his work. I by no means imagined this might occur, and now it’s a dream come true. It’s slightly extra Brazilian funk, as promised, world wide.”
He premiered different new songs from his upcoming album Hurry Up Tomorrow, together with “Dancing With the Flames” and “Timeless” with Playboi Carti which have since been launched. The previous reached No. 14 on the Billboard Scorching 100, whereas the latter peaked at No. 3, making it The Weeknd’s nineteenth prime 10 hit and highest-charting debut on the all-genre songs tally and Carti’s fifth prime 10.
Hearken to “São Paulo” beneath.
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