{"id":973903,"date":"2019-12-06T01:58:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T08:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=923143"},"modified":"2019-12-06T01:58:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T08:58:25","slug":"watch-the-weeknd-perform-recent-single-heartless-on-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/watch-the-weeknd-perform-recent-single-heartless-on-colbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the Weeknd Perform Recent Single \u2018Heartless\u2019 on \u2018Colbert\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/unnamed.png\" 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> appeared on <em>The Late Show<\/em> to perform his latest single, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-weeknd-heartless-video-watch-921770\/\">\u201cHeartless,\u201d<\/a> which got a trippy, Vegas-inspired music video earlier this week. The singer kept things similarly hallucinogenic during the performance, which he took to the halls of the late night show\u2019s studio rather than the stage.<\/p>\n<p>In the clip, the Weeknd strolls down the back hallways of the studio, drink in hand, and sings the lyrics into a red microphone as he navigates the network of corridors, where the lights blink and flash. Eventually, he makes his way back onstage as the crowd cheers and Colbert hugs him.<\/p>\n<p>The musician created the track with producer Metro Boomin and takes on drug-numbed vibe in the lyrics. \u201c\u2018Cause I\u2019m heartless,\u201d he sings on the slick number. \u201cAnd I\u2019m back to my ways \u2019cause I\u2019m heartless\/ All this money and this pain got me heartless.\u201d The song dropped alongside a second track, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-weeknd-blinding-lights-new-song-919726\/\">Blinding Lights,<\/a> which follow the release of his last solo effort, 2018\u2019s <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> EP. The Weeknd will also perform on <em>The Late Show<\/em> tonight to play \u201cBlinding Lights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-weeknd-heartless-colbert-923143\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weeknd appeared on The Late Show to perform his latest single, \u201cHeartless,\u201d which got a trippy, Vegas-inspired music video earlier this week. The singer kept things similarly hallucinogenic during the performance, which he took to the halls of the late night show\u2019s studio rather than the stage. In the clip, the Weeknd strolls down [&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-973903","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 10:59:19","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\/973903","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=973903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}