{"id":5965,"date":"2025-02-10T19:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T00:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=5965"},"modified":"2025-06-08T16:17:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T21:17:40","slug":"tesfaye-calls-tomorrow-the-final-chapter-in-the-trilogy-he-began-with-after-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=5965","title":{"rendered":"Tesfaye Calls Tomorrow The Final Chapter In The Trilogy He Began With After Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

On what was meant to be the last date of his 2022 tour, The Weeknd took the stage at Inglewood, California\u2019s SoFi Stadium, but when he opened his mouth to sing for 80,000 screaming fans, nothing came out. Over the past 14 years, Abel Tesfaye has experienced what you might call pop\u2019s glow-up of the century: When he emerged from obscurity as the faceless voice behind 2011\u2019s noir-ish House of Balloons mixtape, nobody could have guessed that he\u2019d be headlining the Super Bowl Halftime Show a decade later. But that moment onstage triggered what Tesfaye has since described as a breakdown, inspiring a period of intense reflection on his life and career\u2014and Hurry Up Tomorrow, his sixth studio album.<\/p>\n

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Tesfaye has called Tomorrow the final chapter in the trilogy he began with 2020\u2019s After Hours, the album that launched him into a new stratosphere of pop success, and continued with 2022\u2019s high-concept Dawn FM. Continuing the narrative of its semi-autobiographical narrator\u2019s journey through a dark night of the soul, Tomorrow doubles as an allegory about fame\u2019s power to destroy: The curtain rises, and it\u2019s all downhill from there. He longs for a time \u201cwhen my blood never tasted like wine,\u201d he wails over the night-drive synth-pop of \u201cTake Me Back to LA,\u201d and diagnoses fame as a disease on the glittering \u201cDrive.\u201d He\u2019s ready to leave it all behind on \u201cWake Me Up,\u201d a collaboration with French duo Justice: \u201cNo afterlife, no other side,\u201d he sings, sounding entranced by the thought.<\/p>\n

Its 22 tracks play out like the swan song to end all swan songs, joined by a murderer\u2019s row of guests: Future lends a layer of scuzz to the deceptively sweet R&B slow-burner \u201cEnjoy the Show,\u201d Anitta taps in for the nocturnal baile funk of \u201cS\u00e3o Paulo,\u201d and frequent collaborator Lana Del Rey makes an appearance on \u201cThe Abyss,\u201d where ominous lyrics like, \u201cWhat\u2019s the point of staying? It\u2019s going up in flames\u201d hit even harder after LA\u2019s devastating fires in January 2025. Tesfaye has dropped repeated hints that this album won\u2019t just close out the trilogy, but also his existence as The Weeknd. If that\u2019s the case, \u201cWithout a Warning\u201d encapsulates the arc of an artist who never let success get in the way of his ambition: \u201cTake me to a time\/When I was young\/And my heart could take the drugs and heartache without loss\/But now my bones are frail\/And my voice fails\/And my tears fall without a warning\/Either way, the crowd will scream my name.\u201d<\/p>\n

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On what was meant to be the last date of his 2022 tour, The Weeknd took the stage at Inglewood, California\u2019s SoFi Stadium, but when he opened his mouth to sing for 80,000 screaming fans, nothing came out. Over the past 14 years, Abel Tesfaye has experienced what you might call pop\u2019s glow-up of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playlist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5968,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions\/5968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}