See The Weeknd’s enigmatic performance of ‘Open Hearts’ on ‘Kimmel’

On January 31, 2025By Littum

The Weeknd on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live.' - Credit: YouTube/The Weeknd — The Weeknd on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live.’ – Credit: YouTube/The Weeknd

The Weeknd appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live To play his new song, “Open Hearts” – with an unusual approach.

For show performance in the evening, the musician stripped the color of the video and showed the dynamic track in black and white while wearing a hood and glowing glasses. After Sparks ignited from the lights above, the video switched back to color to reveal an empty audience with only a clapping baby watching. Things took an even more surreal turn from there as the singer followed the baby into an animated landscape.

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“Open Hearts” appear on Hurry up tomorrowThe Weeknd’s latest LP. The album, out today via XO/Republic Records, also includes previously released singles “Timeless” with Playboi Carti and “Sao Paulo” with Anitta. Hurry up tomorrow acts as the final of a trilogy, after the 2020s After hours and 2022s Dawn FM.

The release of Hurry up tomorrow was delayed from January 24 to January 31, due to California Fires. The musician, who also canceled a one-night stadium show in Pasadena, California, said he made the decision “of respect and concern for the people of Los Angeles County.”

He has since donated $ 1 million to aids in the city, including to the LAFD Foundation, Gofundmes Wildfire Relief Fund and La Regional Food Bank. In addition, revenue from the album track “Take Me Back to La” will be donated to La Regional Food Bank, which provides emergency food aid to those directly affected by the LA fire fires.

The Weeknd Recently revealed that Hurry up tomorrow Will probably be his last album under Moniker of the Weeknd. “Everything has to feel like a challenge. And for me right now, The Weeknd, whatever it is, it has been mastered, ”he said Black. “No one will make the weekend better than me and I won’t do better than what it is right now. I think I have overcome any challenge like this persona. “

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