The Weeknd has formally launched the primary music made for his new HBO present, The Idol. The brand new observe, “Double Fantasy,” options Future and was produced by the Weeknd, Mike Dean, and Metro Boomin. The music arrives with a music video that includes clips from The Idol. You possibly can test it out under.
Previous to “Double Fantasy,” Weeknd and Future have collaborated on numerous events, with a few of their larger collaborative songs being “Low Life,” “Drinks on Us,” and “Comin Out Robust.”
The Weeknd first carried out a model of “Double Fantasy” throughout the first weekend of the Coachella Competition, citing Metro Boomin to carry out Future’s elements.
The primary episode of The Idol will air on HBO and Max on Sunday, June 4, at 9 p.m. Japanese. The present may even display screen at Cannes Movie Competition in Could. Abel Tesfaye co-created The Idol with Sam Levinson and Reza Fahim. He additionally stars within the sequence as a nightclub proprietor and cult chief who pursues a rising pop star named Jocelyn, performed by Lily-Rose Depp. Extra gamers equivalent to Dan Levy, Hari Nef, Mike Dean, Moses Sumney, Rachel Sennott, Hank Azaria, and Jennie of BLACKPINKalso assist spherical out the stacked solid.
As The Weeknd defined in a latest characteristic in Interview, the companion soundtrack is impressed by earlier epic music-based motion pictures equivalent to Pink Floyd’s The Wall, Prince’s Purple Rain, and David Bowie.
“I’ve been impressed by The Wall and Purple Rain and when Bowie was doing it”, he revealed. “However even movies like Shaft, the place the music is actually telling the story of the movie. However I wish to take it to the following degree. I wish to problem myself and I really feel like, as a musician, I’m the perfect I’ve ever been.”
Hearken to the perfect of The Weeknd on Apple Music and Spotify.