The top is nigh. A minimum of in accordance with a sequence of ominous billboards which have popped up throughout the globe that includes the message “The Finish Is Close to” that followers are speculating are a part of the flowery roll-out of The Weeknd‘s subsequent permutation.
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In line with followers sightings, the messages — that are written out in six completely different fonts representing Abel Tesfaye’s varied eras — have gone up in Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, Paris, London and Melbourne, in accordance with fan snaps.
In two posts on Monday (Dec. 30) teasing the tease, Tesfaye wrote “8 lovely chapters on this story,” accompanied by a composite picture that includes iconic seems to be from these eras — with the identical TheEndIsNear branding — adopted by a listing of his albums. It begins with 2012’s compilation/main label debut Trilogy (which scooped up his three earlier mixtapes: Home of Balloons, Thursday and Echoes of Silence), adopted by 2013’s Kiss Land, 2015’s Magnificence Behind the Insanity, 2016’s Starboy, the 2018 EP My Expensive Melancholy, 2020’s smash After Hours, 2022’s Daybreak FM and his upcoming sixth studio album.
In a second put up, he shared a 24-second video of “The Finish Is Close to” billboards compiled on a digital show atop a constructing on a busy avenue. At press time a spokesperson for the singer had not returned Billboard‘s request for added info on the billboards.
Tesfaye has been teasing his subsequent LP for months, with Hurry Up Tomorrow slated for launch on Jan. 24. The set would be the third and closing installment of the newest trilogy within the Weeknd’s profession, following on the heels of 2020’s After Hours and 2022’s Daybreak FM. Up to now he has launched three singles from the gathering, together with “Dancing within the Flames,” “Timeless” with Playboi Carti and “São Paulo” that includes Anitta.
He debuted these songs and different tracks from Hurry Up Tomorrow throughout his one-night-only present on the Estádio MorumBIS in São Paulo, Brazil. Weeknd has deliberate a one-night-only gig on the Rose Bowl Stadium in Los Angeles on January 25. Earlier this month he once more hinted on the main reboot, posting “New Album, New Tour, New Film, New Every thing.”
Along with the album, Weeknd is slated to make his characteristic movie debut within the parallel Hurry Up Tomorrow huge display psychological thriller, directed by Trey Edward Shults (It Comes At Evening) and co-starring Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan; the movie is due out on Might 16.
Again in Might 2023, in a W Journal interview, Tesfaye intimated that his subsequent studio launch can be his closing one because the Weeknd. “It’s attending to a spot and a time the place I’m on the point of shut the Weeknd chapter. I’ll nonetheless make music, perhaps as Abel, perhaps as The Weeknd. However I nonetheless need to kill The Weeknd. And I’ll. Finally. I’m positively attempting to shed that pores and skin and be reborn,” he stated on the time. “The album I’m engaged on now might be my final hurrah as The Weeknd. That is one thing that I’ve to do. As The Weeknd, I’ve stated every thing I can say.”
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