{"id":805007,"date":"2020-03-08T07:30:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T13:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=964202"},"modified":"2020-03-08T07:30:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T13:30:29","slug":"see-the-weeknd-debut-new-song-scared-to-live-with-oneohtrix-point-never-on-snl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/see-the-weeknd-debut-new-song-scared-to-live-with-oneohtrix-point-never-on-snl\/","title":{"rendered":"See the Weeknd Debut New Song \u2018Scared to Live\u2019 With Oneohtrix Point Never on \u2018SNL\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/w.jpg\" 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> debuted his new song \u201cScared to Live\u201d with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/oneohtrix-point-never\/\" id=\"auto-tag_oneohtrix-point-never\" data-tag=\"oneohtrix-point-never\">Oneohtrix Point Never<\/a> and appeared in a musical sketch during the singer\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/saturday-night-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\">Saturday Night Live<\/a><\/em> musical guest spot. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Abel Tesfaye \u2014 donning the red suit, black leather gloves and bloody face that\u2019s been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-weeknd-after-hours-short-film-962008\/\">the motif<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-weeknd-after-hours-release-date-hear-title-track-954709\/\">his upcoming album <em>After Hours<\/em><\/a> \u2014 first performed his single \u201cBlinding Lights.\u201d The Weeknd\u2019s late-night spots this cycle have all been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-weeknd-heartless-colbert-923143\/\">fourth wall<\/a>\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-weeknd-blinding-lights-kimmel-941701\/\">breaking performances<\/a>, and the <em>SNL<\/em> guest spot continued that trend with a mirrored stage that often reflected the <em>SNL<\/em> crew and audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NyfHO1RT7EQ?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Weeknd and Oneohtrix Point Never\u2019s Daniel Lopatin \u2014 both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/uncut-gems-movie-review-adam-sandler-924149\/\"><em>Uncut Gems<\/em><\/a> stars, Tesfaye as actor and Lopatin as composer \u2014 debuted their new collaboration, the atmospheric ballad \u201cScared to Live,\u201d packed with synths reminiscent of Oneohtrix Point Never\u2019s score from the acclaimed Safdie Brothers film. As of Sunday morning, the likely <em>After Hours<\/em>-bound track, which interpolates Elton John\u2019s \u201cYour Song,\u201d had not been released on streaming services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Outside his performances, the Weeknd formed a trio with <em>SNL<\/em>\u2019s Kenan Thompson and Chris Redd for an R&amp;B song about sleeping on the couch after a lovers spat:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OHq3NhHItD8?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Now an <em>SNL<\/em> tradition, the Weeknd \u2014 in his third time serving as musical guest \u2014 also dropped by Weekend Update to give them a brief Weeknd Update:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.8918918918919\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A brief history of TheWeeknd Update. <br \/>2020 \u27a1\ufe0f 2016 \u27a1\ufe0f 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/auxEQ00O7x\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/auxEQ00O7x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Saturday Night Live \u2013 SNL (@nbcsnl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nbcsnl\/status\/1236547181328445440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">March 8, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-weeknd-snl-oneohtrix-point-never-964202\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weeknd debuted his new song \u201cScared to Live\u201d with Oneohtrix Point Never and appeared in a musical sketch during the singer\u2019s Saturday Night Live musical guest spot. Abel Tesfaye \u2014 donning the red suit, black leather gloves and bloody face that\u2019s been the motif of his upcoming album After Hours \u2014 first performed his [&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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 18:59:16","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\/805007","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=805007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}