{"id":803352,"date":"2020-01-23T06:53:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T13:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=941701"},"modified":"2020-01-23T06:53:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T13:53:05","slug":"the-weeknd-gives-a-bloody-performance-of-blinding-lights-on-kimmel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/the-weeknd-gives-a-bloody-performance-of-blinding-lights-on-kimmel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weeknd Gives a Bloody Performance of \u2018Blinding Lights\u2019 on \u2018Kimmel\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Weeknd<\/a> was the musical guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/a>!<\/em> Wednesday night, singing his new Eighties-inspired single \u201cBlinding Lights\u201d \u2014 and the look of his performance matched the song\u2019s retro vibe.<\/p>\n

Appearing in a suit (plus bandages and fake blood), the artist looked like a cross between a Miami Vice <\/em>character and a sci-fi action hero as the camera \u2014 boasting a fuzzy camcorder filter, naturally \u2014 zoomed in close. The Weeknd performed against a background of airbrushed clouds and spooky lightning effects, adding to the midnight movie feel of the song.<\/p>\n

The Weeknd released \u201cBlinding Nights\u201d last November and shared the action-packed music video<\/a>, directed by Anton Tammi, earlier this week. He previously performed<\/a> the song on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert<\/em>, where he made use of dual screens and a black-and-white visual. He shared the video<\/a> for his other new single, \u201cHeartless,\u201d in December.<\/p>\n

In a throwback to his career starting point in the early 2010s, The Weeknd also played himself in the new Adam Sandler thriller film, Uncut Gems<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Weeknd was the musical guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Wednesday night, singing his new Eighties-inspired single \u201cBlinding Lights\u201d \u2014 and the look of his performance matched the song\u2019s retro vibe. Appearing in a suit (plus bandages and fake blood), the artist looked like a cross between a Miami Vice character and a sci-fi action hero as […]<\/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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 23:39:56","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}