{"id":289742,"date":"2020-03-20T09:42:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T15:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1132856"},"modified":"2020-03-20T09:42:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T15:42:29","slug":"why-fans-think-the-weeknds-after-hours-album-is-a-tribute-to-bella-hadid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/why-fans-think-the-weeknds-after-hours-album-is-a-tribute-to-bella-hadid\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Fans Think The Weeknd&#8217;s After Hours Album Is a Tribute to Bella Hadid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.902869757174\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201911\/rs_634x1024-190201132046-634-Bella-Hadid-The-Weeknd-JR-020119.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Bella Hadid, The Weeknd\" alt=\"Bella Hadid, The Weeknd\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">BACKGRID<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"22.26867335563\">\n<p>Repeat after me:&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/the_weeknd\">The Weeknd<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s new album is officially here.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Friday&nbsp;amid the coronavirus pandemic,&nbsp;the Grammy-winning performer&#8217;s fourth studio album was released, sending fans into the weekend with brand new music perfect for a dance party in the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;ITS OUT EVERYWHERE,&#8221; the star announced after midnight. &#8220;LOVE YOU GUYS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, fans have already sunk their excited teeth into The Weeknd&#8217;s fresh melodies and lyrics, interpreting virtually every word from the beloved artist before taking to Twitter with their thoughts. The consensus? The Weeknd had&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/bella_hadid\">Bella Hadid<\/a><\/strong> on the brain.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The longtime on-and-off couple have been a Hollywood item <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/us\/news\/654281\/bella-hadid-and-the-weeknd-dating-they-have-many-things-in-common-get-the-scoop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">since 2015<\/a>. While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1062718\/bella-hadid-and-the-weeknd-are-officially-broken-up-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a source told E! News in August<\/a> that the famous lovebirds had once again broken up, their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1082098\/bella-hadid-and-the-weeknd-are-back-together-2-months-after-split\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">current status remains up in the air<\/a>. But, as fans have pointed out after dissecting The Weeknd&#8217;s new work, she&#8217;s all over his music.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"63\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"16\">\n<p>On the track, &#8220;Escape From LA,&#8221; about a tumultuous relationship in Los Angeles, fans couldn&#8217;t help but notice the artist&#8217;s apparent reference to Hadid with the line, &#8220;She got Chrome Hearts hangin&#8217; from her neck,&#8221; considering the supermodel has collaborated with the brand.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the track &#8220;Snowchild,&#8221; some listeners pointed out the giggles heard midway through the song sound like Hadid&#8217;s after he sings,&#8221;She never need a man, she what a man need\/So I keep on falling for her daily.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"18\">\n<p>In &#8220;Hardest to Love,&#8221; The Weeknd blames himself as he reflects on the downfall of a relationship, singing at one point, &#8220;I can&#8217;t, can&#8217;t believe you want me\/After all the heart breaks, after all I&#8217;ve done,&#8221; seemingly a nod to the on-and-off nature of his past with Hadid.<\/p>\n<p>While neither star has commented on the social media speculation over the music, Twitter is certainly convinced Hadid had a lot to do with The Weeknd&#8217;s latest work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a fan tweeted with a photo of Hadid, &#8220;Thank you for being the reason behind 56 minutes and 12 seconds of musical euphoria.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1132856\/why-fans-think-the-weeknd-s-after-hours-album-is-a-tribute-to-bella-hadid?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>BACKGRID Repeat after me:&nbsp;The Weeknd&#8216;s new album is officially here.&nbsp; On Friday&nbsp;amid the coronavirus pandemic,&nbsp;the Grammy-winning performer&#8217;s fourth studio album was released, sending fans into the weekend with brand new music perfect for a dance party in the kitchen. &#8220;ITS OUT EVERYWHERE,&#8221; the star announced after midnight. &#8220;LOVE YOU GUYS.&#8221; Naturally, fans have already sunk [&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-289742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-26 10:37:04","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\/289742","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=289742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}