{"id":805648,"date":"2020-03-25T04:25:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T10:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=972796"},"modified":"2020-03-25T04:25:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T10:25:22","slug":"watch-christine-and-the-queens-cover-the-weeknds-blinding-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-christine-and-the-queens-cover-the-weeknds-blinding-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Christine and the Queens Cover the Weeknd\u2019s \u2018Blinding Lights\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/shutterstock_editorial_10532170f.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/christine-and-the-queens\/\" id=\"auto-tag_christine-and-the-queens\" data-tag=\"christine-and-the-queens\">Christine and the Queens<\/a> has used her time in self-quarantine to record a passionate cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-weeknd\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-weeknd\" data-tag=\"the-weeknd\">the Weeknd<\/a>\u2019s recent single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-weeknd-blinding-lights-new-song-919726\/\">\u201cBlinding Lights.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The singer, real name H\u00e9l\u00f6ise Letissier, posted a version of the song on Twitter, filmed in her home, noting, \u201cPushed all the furniture and covered the Weeknd.\u201d The track was originally released by the Weeknd as a single last year and appears on his new album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/the-weeknd-after-hours-971129\/\"><em>After Hours<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.1194029850746\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pushed all the furniture and covered <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theweeknd?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@theweeknd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TogetherAtHome?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#TogetherAtHome<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9suOKqZ8Tl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/9suOKqZ8Tl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris (@QueensChristine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QueensChristine\/status\/1242489274722856960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">March 24, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last month, Christine and the Queens released a new single called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/christine-and-the-queens-people-ive-been-sad-948101\/\">\u201cPeople, I\u2019ve Been Sad,\u201d<\/a> accompanied by a sleek video. The musician released her second record, <em>Chris<\/em>, in 2018. She recently collaborated with Charli XCX on her song&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/charli-xcx-christine-queens-gone-video-860249\/\">\u201cGone,\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;which appeared on the pop star\u2019s 2019 LP&nbsp;<em>Charli.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Letissier recently joined Charli XCX for the first edition of the singer\u2019s daily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/charli-xcx-self-isolation-livestream-969171\/\">\u201cSelf-Isolation IG Livestream.\u201d<\/a> The pair had \u201cAn Emo Chat\u201d about the state of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/covid-19\/\">COVID-19<\/a> crisis and how the pandemic has impacted their mental health.<\/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\/christine-and-the-queens-the-weeknd-blinding-lights-cover-972796\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christine and the Queens has used her time in self-quarantine to record a passionate cover of the Weeknd\u2019s recent single \u201cBlinding Lights.\u201d The singer, real name H\u00e9l\u00f6ise Letissier, posted a version of the song on Twitter, filmed in her home, noting, \u201cPushed all the furniture and covered the Weeknd.\u201d The track was originally released by [&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-805648","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 11:22:22","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\/805648","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=805648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}