{"id":804150,"date":"2020-02-13T13:15:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T20:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=952501"},"modified":"2020-02-13T13:15:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T20:15:43","slug":"the-weeknd-and-his-mustache-announce-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/the-weeknd-and-his-mustache-announce-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weeknd and His Mustache Announce New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Weekend and his new mustache announced Thursday that their new album is titled After Hours. <\/em>And let he who has not had a bad bout of facial hair cast the first stone.<\/p>\n

Admittedly, my entire life is a monument to weird facial hair choices, but nonetheless one has to admit the Weeknd<\/a>\u2018s new mustache is distracting. In a vacuum, the choice makes sense. Abel is channeling the aesthetics of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas<\/em> \u2014 a Hunter S. Thompson novel first featured in Rolling Stone<\/em> and then adapted into a college bro 1998 film classic. So, in that way, his mustache is almost like the Benicio del Toro to the Weeknd\u2019s Johnny Depp.<\/p>\n

In the teaser video, the Weeknd drives a car on a nightmarishly long highway as a CGI-city skyline is revealed. Slowly, the title After Hours<\/em> is spelled out in red and blue letters, while a storm rages in the background. It\u2019s sinister, foreboding and dramatic in peak the Weeknd fashion and continues his one man (one \u2018stache) journey to become the Hunter S. Thompson of R&B<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last year, the Toronto singer released two lead singles from the album, \u201cBlinding Lights\u201d and \u201cHeartless.\u201d Predictably, the latter claimed the number one spot on the Rolling Stone<\/em> Top 100 Songs chart<\/a> after battling Mariah Carey\u2019s Christmas classic \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, there\u2019s no release date confirmed for Abel Tesfaye\u2019s full-length follow-up to 2016\u2019s Starboy<\/em>. So, while you wait, feel free to watch him with a far less pronounced mustache in the Oscar-snubbed but commercially successful film Uncut Gems<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Album Title pic.twitter.com\/ycs4ZSHqaM<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Weeknd (@theweeknd) February 13, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The Weekend and his new mustache announced Thursday that their new album is titled After Hours. And let he who has not had a bad bout of facial hair cast the first stone. Admittedly, my entire life is a monument to weird facial hair choices, but nonetheless one has to admit the Weeknd\u2018s new mustache is […]<\/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-804150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-22 20:57:48","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\/804150","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=804150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}