{"id":283904,"date":"2019-11-20T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1095452"},"modified":"2019-11-20T14:19:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T21:19:00","slug":"the-weeknd-returns-to-instagram-with-a-loading-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/the-weeknd-returns-to-instagram-with-a-loading-message\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weeknd Returns to Instagram With a &#8220;Loading&#8221; Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"46.840579710145\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20161030\/rs_634x1024-161130130410-634.The-Weeknd-Victorias-Secret-Show.ms.113016.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"The Weeknd, 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show\" alt=\"The Weeknd, 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images for Victoria&#8217;s Secret <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"33.132653061224\">\n<p>We feel <em>something<\/em>&nbsp;coming.<\/p>\n<p>Back in June, fans noticed&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/the_weeknd\">The Weeknd<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s Instagram account had suddenly been deactivated. Now, five months later, the musical star&#8217;s page has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/theweeknd\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">popped up again<\/a>, except this time, the photos are missing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Grammy winner&#8217;s account, which has accumulated more than 20 million followers, has been wiped clean of all posts and is not following any others. To make matters more interesting, the star&#8217;s Instagram bio simply reads, &#8220;loading&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the social media update has spurred speculation that the &#8220;Can&#8217;t Feel My Face&#8221; performer is about to release new music, specifically his fourth studio album. The star last dropped a full album\u2014his third, <em>Starboy<\/em>\u2014in November 2016, but did release tracks with other stars this year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just days earlier, the star tweeted, &#8220;when is fall actually over? just curious&#8230;,&#8221; which fans also interpreted as a cryptic nod to when new tracks are dropping considering The Weeknd often makes references to &#8220;the fall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"46.142857142857\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3.2380952380952\">\n<p>While we wait and see if a new phase in The Weeknd&#8217;s musical career is approaching, the star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1071744\/the-weeknd-looks-unrecognizable-in-first-red-carpet-appearance-since-bella-hadid-split\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debuted a new look on the red carpet <\/a>back in September featuring a different &#8216;do and mustache.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"30.766666666667\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9.5333333333333\">\n<p>Meanwhile, next month, the 29-year-old will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1076463\/watch-the-weeknd-fight-adam-sandler-in-the-intense-uncut-gems-trailer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">make his silver screen debut<\/a>&nbsp;playing himself in the Safdie brothers&#8217;&nbsp;<em>Uncut Gems<\/em>, starring&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/adam_sandler\">Adam Sandler<\/a><\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As for the Instagram update, fans are hoping it&#8217;s not a false alarm. As one fan responded to his mysterious tweet, &#8220;Soon so drop the album already.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1095452\/the-weeknd-returns-to-instagram-with-a-loading-message?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images for Victoria&#8217;s Secret We feel something&nbsp;coming. Back in June, fans noticed&nbsp;The Weeknd&#8216;s Instagram account had suddenly been deactivated. Now, five months later, the musical star&#8217;s page has popped up again, except this time, the photos are missing.&nbsp; The Grammy winner&#8217;s account, which has accumulated more than 20 million followers, has been wiped [&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":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-11 06:59:06","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":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}