{"id":973753,"date":"2019-11-26T22:26:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T05:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=919202"},"modified":"2019-11-26T22:26:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T05:26:55","slug":"the-weeknd-searches-for-fixes-in-new-song-heartless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/the-weeknd-searches-for-fixes-in-new-song-heartless\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weeknd Searches for Fixes in New Song \u2018Heartless\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/TheWeekndNewSong.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-weeknd\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-weeknd\" data-tag=\"the-weeknd\">The Weeknd<\/a> returns with new song \u201cHeartless.\u201d It\u2019s his first new solo music since he released his EP, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-the-weeknds-my-dear-melancholy-mixes-deep-gloom-and-tough-love-629429\/\"><em>My Dear Melancholy<\/em><\/a>, in March 2018.<\/p>\n<p>On the new track, Abel Tesfaye, aka the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/weeknd\/\" id=\"auto-tag_weeknd\" data-tag=\"weeknd\">Weeknd<\/a>, sings about searching for deeper meaning and \u201ctrying to find the one that can fix me,\u201d but flings and drugs continue to leave him numb. \u201c\u2018Cause I\u2019m heartless\/And I\u2019m back to my ways \u2019cause I\u2019m heartless,\u201d he sings on the atmospheric R&amp;B-tipped track. \u201cAll this money and this pain\u2019s got me heartless\u2026 Said I\u2019m heartless, tryin\u2019 to be a better man, but I\u2019m heartless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Weeknd began teasing the release of new material earlier this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theweeknd\/status\/1199105151673331713\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">tweeting on Monday<\/a> that \u201cthe fall begins tomorrow\u201d and then announcing, \u201cTonight we start a brain melting psychotic chapter let\u2019s go\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theweeknd\/status\/1199424882645164032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">on Tuesday<\/a>. Both posts were accompanied by black-and-white photos, which feature what appear to be the singer captured in blurry movement.<\/p>\n<p>A snippet of another new song, \u201cBlinding Lights,\u201d appears in a Mercedes-Benz advertisement, which was unveiled earlier on Tuesday. He appears in the clip, which also teases that a full Mercedes-Benz film featuring the Weeknd will be available beginning November 29th.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bwqC1p6ggbU?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Next month The Weeknd appears alongside Adam Sandler in the upcoming crime film, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-news\/uncut-gems-trailer-889507\/\"><em>Uncut Gems<\/em><\/a>, which will open in theaters on December 13th. The singer makes his acting debut in the film. Earlier this year, the Weeknd teamed with SZA and Travis Scott for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-weeknd-sza-travis-scott-game-of-thrones-power-is-power-video-831442\/\">Power Is Power<\/a>,\u201d their contribution to the all-star <em>Game of Thrones<\/em>-inspired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/travis-scott-the-weeknd-the-national-game-of-thrones-soundtrack-820386\/\"><em>For the Thrones<\/em><\/a> album.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-weeknd-heartless-song-listen-919202\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weeknd returns with new song \u201cHeartless.\u201d It\u2019s his first new solo music since he released his EP, My Dear Melancholy, in March 2018. On the new track, Abel Tesfaye, aka the Weeknd, sings about searching for deeper meaning and \u201ctrying to find the one that can fix me,\u201d but flings and drugs continue to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 03:33:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}