{"id":973931,"date":"2019-12-07T07:04:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T14:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=923624"},"modified":"2019-12-07T07:04:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T14:04:30","slug":"watch-the-weeknd-deliver-riveting-blinding-lights-on-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/watch-the-weeknd-deliver-riveting-blinding-lights-on-colbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the Weeknd Deliver Riveting \u2018Blinding Lights\u2019 on \u2018Colbert\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-07-at-5.17.18-AM.png\" 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> closed out his two-night <em>Late Show<\/em> residency Friday with a riveting rendition of his new single \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-weeknd-blinding-lights-new-song-919726\/\">Blinding Lights<\/a>.\u201d The performance marked the first time the singer born Abel Tesfaye had played the song live.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Unlike the previous night\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-weeknd-heartless-colbert-923143\/\">\u201cHeartless\u201d performance<\/a>, the Weeknd actually appeared onstage for \u201cBlinding Lights,\u201d but he still went beyond the usual late-night fare with a black-and-white visual that utilized side-by-side screens that captured the Weeknd, standing inside a lit-up cube, both head-on and with his back toward the camera so the Ed Sullivan Theater audience is seen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Midway through the track, the cameras are repositioned to create an almost mirror effect as Tesfaye eventually exits the cube and moves toward the audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On Thursday\u2019s <em>Late Show<\/em>, the Weeknd sang \u201cHeartless\u201d in the labyrinthine back hallways of the Ed Sullivan Theater, only emerging on the <em>Late Show<\/em> to shake hands with Stephen Colbert at the song\u2019s conclusion. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Both new singles mark the Weeknd\u2019s first release since 2018\u2019s&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-the-weeknds-my-dear-melancholy-mixes-deep-gloom-and-tough-love-629429\/\">My Dear Melancholy<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;EP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-weeknd-blinding-lights-colbert-923624\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weeknd closed out his two-night Late Show residency Friday with a riveting rendition of his new single \u201cBlinding Lights.\u201d The performance marked the first time the singer born Abel Tesfaye had played the song live. Unlike the previous night\u2019s \u201cHeartless\u201d performance, the Weeknd actually appeared onstage for \u201cBlinding Lights,\u201d but he still went beyond [&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-973931","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 13:12:33","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\/973931","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=973931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}