{"id":118073,"date":"2024-07-19T18:01:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T18:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/19\/the-weeknd-releases-trippy-video-teasing-third-chapter-in-his-tale\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T18:01:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T18:01:35","slug":"the-weeknd-releases-trippy-video-teasing-third-chapter-in-his-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/19\/the-weeknd-releases-trippy-video-teasing-third-chapter-in-his-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weeknd releases trippy video teasing &#8220;third chapter&#8221; in his &#8220;tale&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-19\/Getty_TheWeeknd_071924.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Rocco Spaziani\/Archivio Spaziani\/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After announcing a one-off stadium show in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil, <strong>The Weeknd<\/strong> has dropped a video teasing new music, which appears to be the final installment of a musical trilogy that started with his 2020 album,\u00a0<em>After Hours<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C9kor6kPBap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">captioned the video<\/a>, &#8220;There are three chapters in this tale.&#8221; In the video, we see his red-suited character from <em>After Hours<\/em> rolling dice and driving a car. We then see his &#8220;Old Man Weeknd&#8221; character and his younger, black leather-wearing character who were part of his 2022 release<em> Dawn FM.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s followed by a shot of a figure wearing a mask, then a bunch of creepy white human statues all reaching out to an unreal-looking little boy, sitting cross-legged with his eyes down. As a spotlight hits him, grass and flowers grow around him, and we again seen the words &#8220;There are three chapters in this tale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fans believe that it&#8217;s all leading to a project called<em> Rebirth<\/em>. The Weeknd recently\u00a0seemed to hint at that theme by posting on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C9IKedKpJ9C\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>,\u00a0&#8220;T<span>he present humanity is frail, deteriorating and weak, but to share eternal life the bodies must be transformed.<\/span>&#8221; That was followed by an emoji of the Brazilian flag.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocco Spaziani\/Archivio Spaziani\/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images After announcing a one-off stadium show in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil, The Weeknd has dropped a video teasing new music, which appears to be the final installment of a musical trilogy that started with his 2020 album,\u00a0After Hours. He captioned the video, &#8220;There are<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/19\/the-weeknd-releases-trippy-video-teasing-third-chapter-in-his-tale\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,606,428],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}