The Weeknd has continued to gasoline pleasure for his new album by revealing its title, amongst different particulars.
The Canadian crooner introduced on Wednesday (September 4) that his sixth LP — and doubtlessly last launch beneath his stage identify — is known as Hurry Up Tomorrow.
The challenge will function the third and last installment in a trilogy that features his earlier albums, 2020’s After Hours and 2022’s Daybreak FM.
The announcement, shared on social media, was accompanied by a dramatic but cryptic video introducing Hurry Up Tomorrow and containing a number of references to The Weeknd’s previous songs.
“Yesterday was 14 years in the past… We held our breath, falling right into a shimmering sea within the after hours of the evening… Tried to cleanse the injuries with melodies and lights, a bulletproof bandage to defend what lies beneath,” it reads.
“In a spot the place the seasons by no means modified, the place time ceased to exist. However therein lies the issue. At this time has felt like an limitless spin. I preserve distorting the reality, proof against the dizziness, numb to the nausea. What lies beneath — screams in silence.”
It continues: “I look within the mirror and really feel each outdated and new, caught in limbo and unable to maneuver. I nonetheless haven’t confronted myself. Extra songs might assist, however what do I’ve left to say? Woes is me in my gilded cage, proper?
“The very factor that when made me invincible failed me on the world stage. A brand new trauma surfaced, opening floodgates. A brand new path awaits. When at this time ends, I’ll uncover who I’m.”
The video follows a string of different cryptic teasers for Hurry Up Tomorrow, which doesn’t but have a launch date.
Final month, The Weeknd submit a CGI clip he captioned, “unprepared certainty,” which confirmed a youthful model of himself following a mysterious character draped in a white gown into an deserted home.
After being lured right into a seemingly magical grandfather clock, the kid finds himself inside a church surrounded by mirrored reflections of his older self earlier than cuddling as much as the robed character, who’s revealed to be his mom.
The teaser trailer additionally included a snippet of an unreleased tune, presumably from his new album.
The Weeknd beforehand hinted at retiring his stage identify after the discharge of what followers now know is titled Hurry Up Tomorrow, telling W journal: “I’m going by means of a cathartic path proper now. It’s attending to a spot and a time the place I’m on the brink of shut the Weeknd chapter.
“I’ll nonetheless make music, possibly as Abel, possibly as The Weeknd. However I nonetheless wish to kill The Weeknd. And I’ll. Ultimately. I’m positively attempting to shed that pores and skin and be reborn.”
He added: “The album I’m engaged on now might be my final hurrah as The Weeknd. That is one thing that I’ve to do. As The Weeknd, I’ve mentioned every part I can say.”
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