{"id":973775,"date":"2019-11-29T07:02:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T14:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=919726"},"modified":"2019-11-29T07:02:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T14:02:52","slug":"the-weeknd-releases-full-version-of-new-song-blinding-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/the-weeknd-releases-full-version-of-new-song-blinding-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weeknd Releases Full Version of New Song \u2018Blinding Lights\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/8mT0FsOQ.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-weeknd\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-weeknd\" data-tag=\"the-weeknd\">The Weeknd<\/a> has shared the full version of his latest single \u201cBlinding Lights,\u201d the singer\u2019s second new song of the week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The singer born Abel Tesfaye previously unveiled a minute-long teaser and a brief vocal snippet for the synth-heavy track, which soundtracks a new Mercedes-Benz ad; the singer has partnered with the automobile giant to serve as creative director for a new global campaign tied to the track. On Friday, the Weeknd dropped the complete three-minute version of the new wave banger.<\/span><\/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 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On Wednesday, the Weeknd released \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-weeknd-heartless-song-listen-919202\/\">Heartless<\/a>,\u201d Tesfaye\u2019s first new solo song since his&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-the-weeknds-my-dear-melancholy-mixes-deep-gloom-and-tough-love-629429\/\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>My Dear Melancholy<\/i><\/span><\/a> EP arrived in March 2018. \u201cTonight we start a brain melting psychotic chapter let\u2019s go,\u201d he tweeted Tuesday before \u201cHeartless\u201d arrived.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Weeknd will perform both \u201cHeartless\u201d and \u201cBlinding Lights\u201d during a two-night visit to <em>The Late Show With Stephen Colbert<\/em> on December 5th and 6th.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While the Weeknd hasn\u2019t shared details about a new album, the follow-up to 2016\u2019s <em>Starboy<\/em>, the Safdie brothers, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-news\/could-the-weeknd-beat-adam-sandler-in-hand-to-hand-combat-889574\/\">recently directed Tesfaye<\/a> in <em>Uncut Gems<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JOSH_BENNY\/status\/1200314908388265985\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a> of the Weeknd\u2019s upcoming LP, \u201cThis whole album is like plugging into a degenerate HIFI system at a club at 5am. Love it,\u201d which the Weeknd retweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Weeknd has also updated <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.theweeknd.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">his online sho<\/a>p to include 7\u2033 and CD singles of \u201cHeartless\u201d and \u2018Blinding Lights.\u201d<\/span><\/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-blinding-lights-new-song-919726\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weeknd has shared the full version of his latest single \u201cBlinding Lights,\u201d the singer\u2019s second new song of the week. The singer born Abel Tesfaye previously unveiled a minute-long teaser and a brief vocal snippet for the synth-heavy track, which soundtracks a new Mercedes-Benz ad; the singer has partnered with the automobile giant 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-973775","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 04:32:47","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\/973775","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=973775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}