{"id":31123,"date":"2021-08-02T15:07:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T15:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=31123"},"modified":"2021-08-02T15:07:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T15:07:45","slug":"weeknd-dawn-coming","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/weeknd-dawn-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weeknd Dropped A Preview Of A New Song And It\u2019s Electrifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31127\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31127\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-31127\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1320433070-e1627914735796.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"The Weeknd\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Weeknd (Photo by Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The first hint that Abel Tesfaye, a.k.a. <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/the-weeknd-mtv-vmas-performance-2020\/\">The Weeknd<\/a>, was prepping something new came last week. On Thursday, the singer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theweeknd\/status\/1420886050709274629\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a> a cryptic message along with a sunrise emoji: \u201csay your final goodbyes\u2026\u201d To what? To whom? Then last night, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theweeknd\/status\/1422027328079601666\" target=\"_blank\">another tease<\/a>: \u201cf*ck it \u2026 IT STARTS TONIGHT.\u201d And within a couple hours, the biggest tease of all: a nearly two-minute video featuring new music, presumably from The Weeknd\u2019s highly anticipated follow up to last year\u2019s <em>After Hours<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The clip, titled \u201cThe Dawn Is Coming,\u201d landed on YouTube a little after midnight and features more sunrise imagery set to a charging beat and electronic flourishes that bring to mind a dark inversion of Donna Summer\u2019s \u201cI Feel Love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Dawn Is Coming (Teaser)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DQ7C0aE0I4M?start=101&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The preview coincides with the publication of <em>GQ<\/em>\u2019s September <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/the-weeknd-september-cover-interview\" target=\"_blank\">cover story<\/a> on The Weeknd. Journalist Mark Anthony Green got to hear parts of the as yet untitled new album for the story. Here\u2019s what he had to say about it: \u201cThe music hit the studio like a Mack truck. The new project is packed with party records. Like real-deal, illuminated-white-tiles-on-the-floor party records. Quincy Jones meets Giorgio Moroder meets the best-night-of-your-fucking-life party records. Not anachronistic disco stuff\u2026 Sweaty. Hard. Drenched-suit, grinding-on-the-girl\/boy-of-your-dreams party records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In their interview, Tesfaye reveals that he\u2019s currently \u201csober lite.\u201d While he still indulges in the occasional drink and smokes weed, the artist says he\u2019s given up harder substances: \u201cDrugs were a crutch. It was me thinking that I needed it. And not doing the work to figure out how not to need it. And I\u2019ve spent the last few years realizing that and thanking God that I don\u2019t need it. Because for a lot of people, it\u2019s hard to shake it. But I knew I didn\u2019t want it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tesfaye also clarified his <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/weeknd-grammys\/\">stance on the Grammys<\/a>, reiterating that he has no plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/the-weeknd-boycotting-grammys\/\">submit his future work<\/a> to the Recording Academy. He\u2019s not even interested in whatever behind-the-scenes calculus went into Grammy voters\u2019 decision to completely shut <em>After Hours <\/em>out of the 2021 awards. \u201cI just don\u2019t care,\u201d he tells Green. \u201cBecause that will never be the reason why I do what I do. It never really was before. And I\u2019m glad that I can make music and not have to think about that. I\u2019ll never be in that conversation ever again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Weeknd is currently scheduled to head out on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweeknd.com\/tour\" target=\"_blank\">tour<\/a> early next year. We wouldn\u2019t be surprised to hear more new music in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29097,"featured_media":31127,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[38,3292,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Weeknd Dropped A Preview Of A New Song And It\u2019s Electrifying<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The first hint that Abel Tesfaye, a.k.a. The Weeknd, was prepping something new came last week. 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