{"id":805587,"date":"2020-03-23T14:37:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T20:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=971670"},"modified":"2020-03-23T14:37:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T20:37:36","slug":"elton-john-praises-the-weeknd-in-midst-of-self-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/elton-john-praises-the-weeknd-in-midst-of-self-quarantine\/","title":{"rendered":"Elton John Praises the Weeknd in Midst of Self-Quarantine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/EltonWeeknd.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/elton-john\/\">Elton John<\/a> discussed the ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/coronavirus\/\">coronavirus<\/a> pandemic with Zane Lowe on Monday as part of a new daily interview series in which the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/apple\">Apple<\/a> host checks in on top-tier artists during self-quarantine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery cloud has a silver lining,\u201d John said. \u201cMaybe this will bring people together and be far more thoughtful about each other in a world where we\u2019re so selfish \u2014 me included. And it gives us time to reflect on what life\u2019s all about. And life is about love and sharing and generosity of spirit and coming together as one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John noted that he\u2019s been using his quarantine for extended family time \u2014 \u201cto be honest with you, it\u2019s great to be able to spend this much time with my boys\u201d \u2014 and responded to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-weeknd\/\">the Weeknd\u2019s<\/a> sampling of his music in the song \u201cScared to Love,\u201d from the artist\u2019s latest album&nbsp;<em>After Hours<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so blown away just to be part of his record,\u201d John said. \u201cFor someone my age and as someone who loves what he does, I\u2019m so thrilled and I just love him.\u201d John also expressed admiration for the next generation of talented UK artists following in his footsteps, including Tom Odell, James Blake, Lewis Capaldi and Sam Smith.<\/p>\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\/elton-john-coronavirus-apple-zane-lowe-interview-971670\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elton John discussed the ongoing coronavirus pandemic with Zane Lowe on Monday as part of a new daily interview series in which the Apple host checks in on top-tier artists during self-quarantine. \u201cEvery cloud has a silver lining,\u201d John said. \u201cMaybe this will bring people together and be far more thoughtful about each other in [&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-805587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 15:26:04","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":"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\/805587","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=805587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}